Russia opens military helicopter training centre in Venezuela
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/02/russia-opens-military-helicopter-training-centre-venezuela/Russia has opened a centre to train military helicopter pilots in Venezuela in a further sign of Vladimir Putin's support for the regime of Nicolas Maduro.
The news comes days after Moscow sent two planes of military personnel and equipment to Venezuela.
Rosoboronexport, the state corporation for arms sales, said in a statement it built the centre under a contract with Venezuelan state-owned firearms manufacturer CAVIM.
Russian-made simulators will allow local pilots to practice flying helicopters that Moscow has supplied to Caracas. These include the Mil Mi-35M Hind, a gunship known in Russia as the “flying tank†for its durability under fire, the Mi-26T heavy transport helicopter and the Mi-17V-5, a transport helicopter that can be equipped with machine guns and rockets....