Re: Russian fighter planes sale to Syria alarms Israel
**MiGs Will Defend Syria and Iran **
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Russia has begun to implement the contract signed by Rosoboronexport with Syria this year for the delivery of five MiG-31E fighter-interceptors.
That means that Russia is renewing arms deliveries to the Middle East after a hiatus due to the war in Lebanon.
Iran may be the big winner from the deal, since there exists an Iranian-Syrian mutual defense agreement, and Iran is financing Damascus’s purchase.
Several sources in the military-industrial complex told Kommersant that OAO Nizhny Novgorod Sokol Plant has begun working on the five MiG-31E aircraft.