Pentagon Stops Buying Helos from Russia for Afghanistan
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In this May 13, 2013, file photo, an Mi-17 helicopter used by the Afghan Air Force sits on Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Kristin M. Hall/APIn this May 13, 2013, file photo, an Mi-17 helicopter used by the Afghan Air Force sits on Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Kristin M. Hall/AP
Posted By: Richard Sisk November 28, 2016
The Pentagon and the White House have relented and stopped doing business that evaded economic sanctions on Russia with the Kremlin-run arms firm supplying Russian Mi-17 helicopters to the Afghan Air Force.
The $11.6 billion supplemental defense budget request recently sent by the White House to Congress reportedly included $264 million for UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, made by Sikorsky in Connecticut, rather than the Mi-17s supplied by Russia’s state-run Rosoboronexport.
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2016/11/28/pentagon-stops-buying-helos-russia-afghanistan/
