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Таиланд думает взять Ми-17
Тайская армия поддерживает долгосроный план по закупке небольшого количества Ми-17, заявил Джейнсу официальный представитель армии.
Он опроверг завяления местных СМИ об одобрении по закупке трех Ми-17, но сказал, что нам нужны вертолеты и мы все еще планируем закупить их. Но у нас нет денег.
Тайские планы по закупке вертолетов вытекают из меморандума о взаимпонимании, подписанного с россией в августе 2005 г., который подразумевал закупку двух или четырех Ми-17
Date Posted: 20-Oct-2008
Jane's Defence Industry
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Thailand remains hopeful over Russian helicopters, despite lack of funds
Jon Grevatt Jane's Asia-Pacific Industry Reporter
The Royal Thai Army (RTA) is maintaining its long-held plan to procure a small number of Mil Mi-17 medium transport helicopters from Russia despite a lack of available funds, an RTA official told Jane's on 20 October.
While rejecting local media reports that the RTA had already approved a plan to procure three Mi-17s, the official said: "We still need the helicopters and we still have a plan to buy them. But we don't yet have the money."
Thailand's plans to acquire the Mi-17s stem from the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Russia in August 2005 that focused on the sale to Thailand of two to four Mi-17 helicopters.
The provisional deal entailed the Ulan-Ude facility providing Thailand with the aircraft in partial repayment of Moscow's long-standing debt of USD36 million, which relates to a rice deal dating from the late Soviet period.
Earlier this year, Thailand's government approved a Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) defence budget of THB169 billion (USD4.92 billion), a 17.8 per cent increase over FY08. The expenditure was boosted further in September when former prime minister Samak Sundaravej approved an additional THB6.2 billion to address a weakened local currency.
The RTA will receive about half of the budget, or THB83.5 billion, while the Royal Thai Air Force and Royal Thai Navy have been allocated THB31.6 billion and THB32.8 billion respectively.