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Algeria, Thailand to Get Russia's Su-30 Fighters

Irkut President Oleg Demchenko has announced two big export contracts for Su-30MKI fighters’ delivery to Algeria and Thailand will be sealed in the near term.
According to Oleg Demchenko, the contracts for delivering from 12 to 28 fighters to Algeria and from 12 to 18 fighters to Thailand will be entered into in late this year or at the start of the next year. Demchenko said Su-30MKI was in Algeria for flight demonstration past August.

Each Su-30MKI costs roughly between $38 million and $42 million. In view of research/experimental development budget coupled with the armament shipment and establishment of maintenance centers, the contract value is estimated at from $0.6 billion to 1.4 billion for Algeria and from $0.6 billion to 0.9 billion for Thailand.
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