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Ukraine "Loses" Five Indian Airplanes, Shake-Up Of Secret Service & Army Underway
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man blog,
Indian Planes go Missing in Kiev
This is really too funny. As Sputnik reports, India has entered into a contract with a Ukrainian state-owned company to refurbish and upgrade its fleet of military transport planes. Now it has turned out that the company has somehow managed to “lose” five of them. Part of the fleet was to be refurbished in India, but that has recently stopped, because the Ukrainian engineers went back home and the required spare parts failed to turn up.
“India says five of its 40 AN-32 military transport aircrafts have gone missing “without a trace” while the planes underwent upgrades in Ukraine. “These five aircraft are almost lost as it is difficult to trace them and diplomatic efforts to find their whereabouts have failed,” the website Defense News quotes an Indian Air Force official as saying.
In 2009, India signed a contract with Ukraine’s state-owned arms trading agency, Ukrspetsexport Corp., to upgrade its 104 AN-32 transport aircraft at a cost of US $400 million, as the fleet had reached its life expectancy. The upgrade program started in 2011 and was set to run through 2017.
Under the deal, the modernization of 40 warplanes should have been completed in Ukraine at Kiev-based Antonov State Co. facilities, while the 64 others were set to be upgraded in India at the Air Force’s Kanpur-based base, under a technology transfer from Ukraine.
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However out of 40 warplanes sent to Kiev, only 35 made their way back home. The remaining five have been “lost without trace”.
The local upgrade of the remaining 64 AN-32s has been halted as Ukrainian engineers departed and supplies of spare parts stopped, according to the Indian Air Force. A diplomat from the Ukraine Embassy said Antonov must resolve this issue with the Indian Air Force, and that the government cannot help.”
The Antonov AN 32. Admittedly, not the biggest airplane ever, but we would still find it difficult to lose one, let alone five.
Photo credit: Rohan
Interestingly, although Ukrspetsexport is a state-owned company, Ukraine’s government “cannot help”. We wonder if that rather unhelpful attitude has anything to do with India not imposing sanctions on Russia? In any case, it seems extremely short-sighted given the size of the order. It is a good bet that India – one of the biggest buyers of war materiel on the planet right now – isn’t going to make any deals with Ukrainian companies anymore.
Post-Kolomoisky Crackdown
At the same time, there actually seems to be a crackdown on corruption underway in Ukraine following the deposition of Igor Kolomoisky, whose state-within-the-state is now dismantled as well. Two high-ranking officials of Ukraine’s security apparatus have been arrested in the middle of a cabinet meeting – they stand apparently accused of profiting from illegal fuel purchases at inflated prices using public funds.
Sergey Boichkov and Vassily Stoetzky are arrested in the middle of a cabinet meeting
Well, they sure look guilty (and they also look line strip club bouncers! A common affliction of Ukrainian officials) and they probably are. Maybe they know where the “lost” Indian planes are hiding out as well?
President Poroshenko has in the meantime moved to undermine Kolomoisky’s private army as well – the Neo-Nazi battalions such as Azov and various armed units belonging to Yarosh’s Right Sector have reportedly been given an ultimatum: They either become regular army units, or they must leave their posts near the war zone and disarm. The trigger was apparently the murder of an SBU (secret service) officer by a bunch of right wing thugs as he happened upon a scheme of “trading with the enemy” (they were smuggling stuff to Lugansk and Donetsk).
A big shake-up of the SBU and the armed forces is underway, which according to Poroshenko need to be reformed according to NATO criteria. The SBU has a new head, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, who recently announced that a network of corrupt officers as well as politicians in the Rada (who are to be stripped of their immunity) will be arrested shortly. This seems to be a combination of following “suggestions” from the West (i.e., Washington) and getting rid of political competition.
Nevertheless, there is in fact a lot of corruption in Ukraine (reportedly it is so enormous that the jaw of the average Western observer would drop right to the floor were he to realize its extent), so any move to eradicate some of it must be cautiously welcomed (more color on this can be found at this web site, however we caution that it is written by supporter of the separatists, whose opinions are slanted accordingly – nevertheless, we know from experience that the information he provides often tends to be spot-on, so he represents a valuable source).
Most notable though is the fact that Poroshenko is beginning to distance himself from the rabid nationalists, as evidenced by a speech he held in context with the above mentioned murder of an SBU officer. Even if you don’t understand the language, you can make out his mention of “cynical Banderists” just after 1:00 in the short video below:
Poroshenko calls murderers of SBU officer “cynical Banderists” – In his speech in the video, Poroshenko apparently misspoke: he first said “cynical Banderists”, and then corrected himself to say “bandits”. A Freudian slip-up.
For those who don’t know: Stepan Bandera was a leader of the nationalist Ukrainian resistance to the Soviet Union during WW2 and beyond, and collaborated with the Nazis on the principle “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. This was unfortunate for any Jews and Poles that happened to live within grabbing distance of Bandera, as they were duly driven away and/or exterminated. His modern-day followers all deny that they are Nazis, but they do admire Hitler, use Nazi symbols and go on about the “Muscovite Jew cabal” they want to stamp out. Moreover, they profess to dream of an ethnically cleansed, all-white Ukraine and their economic views are 100% congruent with those of Hitler. Other than that, they are only harmless nationalists.
Stepan Bandera, leader of the Ukrainian resistence against the Soviets in WW2
Image author unknown
However, they were also the most effective fighting force Ukraine had on the Eastern front. From what we could find out so far, some of them have moved away from their previous positions in the Donbass without joining the army (yet). Whether they have actually disarmed is doubtful. Note also that prior to Kolomoisky’s deposition, there was talk of Right Sector leader Dimitry Yarosh being elevated to the army’s general staff, an idea that has almost certainly died now.
The question is what these armed groups will do next (some of their leaders call the recent moves a “betrayal”). Most likely they won’t do anything for the moment, and some may even join the army. After all, they are battle-hardened and need an income (although there will no longer be the extra pay provided by Kolomoisky). However, they have also frequently aired their growing dissatisfaction with the leadership in Kiev, and it cannot be ruled out that they will one day turn on those they are currently serving. As we know from the Maidan uprising, when it comes to deposing a sitting government, they can be very effective. Here is an article in Russian on these developments; a Google translation should be good enough to get the gist of it.
Conclusion
We previously mentioned that the appointment of a number of non-Ukrainians to important government posts appears to have been implemented as a move aimed at curbing corruption. This was almost certainly under “orders” of Western powers which are currently financing Ukraine’s government. The IMF wants to get its money back one day, and that won’t be possible unless some things change rather dramatically.
However, we believe this also means that the Minsk agreement will not hold forever. In US neo-con circles the idea of Kiev negotiating with the rebels in the East is detested – only unconditional surrender is held to be acceptable. Reading between the lines, President Poroshenko appears to be more pragmatic to us, but our impression is that he is frequently put under pressure in this respect (hence the constant back and forth). It will be interesting to see what happens next – hitherto the betting was on the next offensive being started sometime in April, and April has just begun.
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The Indians can fuck off too. After kicking the Brits out the caste system only got stronger.
Ghandi was another shit spewing politician. Fuck em.
Whole lot of shakin goin on.
Everything is going according to the USSA plan: If we can't own it, steal it or control it, we destroy it.
crises or no crises they look very well fed...
Unconditional surrender in Donbass may well be just around the corner for the US and it's Nazi proxies
Whole region smells like 1941
LOL how could the caste system get stronger when they got rid of an entire layer of the caste system, the British.
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That's also the USSA plan for Europe, already in progress.
http://slavyangrad.org/2015/03/12/what-does-putin-want/
"The Indians can fuck off too."
Thus comments an Ukrainian on his government's theft of 5 airplanes from India.
While Putin sends a message to NATO unofficially... Do not fuck with us... In Crimea, in Ukraine or the Baltics or else it'll get nasty
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/567879/Vladimir-Putin-threatens-nucl...
Vladimir Putin threatens NUCLEAR showdown over the West's interference in UkraineAlso what will help the next ``real`` maidan...
Since April 1 : gas +330% heating +73% hot water +57% electricity +33%
And express.co.uk is a trustworthy down to earth publication. Just check some other "NewsJems" headlines "Millie Mackintosh risks flashing EVERYTHING as she attends McQueen event in daring dress
" or the "Gust of wind sees Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo flash BARE bottom".
I will take a news article from that page any day. :D
The people of Ukraine have withdrawn their support from the fascists installed by the US State Department. The Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation and the people of eastern Ukraine are fighting a bloody war to withdraw from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.
The US State department will lose the entire Ukraine to the Russian Federation before the IMF can bleed it dry.
Reminds me of Snatch and the "we've lost Gorgeous George" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQE1XTjKnEw
"He ain't a set of fucking car keys, is he? And it ain't as if he's incon-fucking-spicuous now, is it?"
That's what happens when you try to cut deals with a CIA front-country. India should be happy it got 35 planes returned. The other 5? Look for them in a covert operation near you.
Hell..I would scrutinize the 35 they did get back very closely.
12,5% bakshish is a good rate for indian circumstances;)
no high ground here: one set of criminals calling out another set of criminals, chicago 1930 style crime gang wars. at one time the usa was seen as the good guys, times have changed.
Interesting... so Ukraine is almost exactly like Russia. Except the for the fact that in Ukraine, the corrupt guys get arrested.
What about Chodorkovski? Folks who got arrested in Russia for corruption and murders are hailed in West as heros.
And Ukraine is a joke, Ukrainians fucked its own country and are proud about it. Sick people..
Mar 7, 2015 Sakhalin Governor Alexander Horoshavin on arrested on bribery accusations, he will not be as lucky as Khodorkovsky ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1BI7We3KOk
Russia did deal with oligarchs = they all fled to UK,
The most influential and exposed oligarchs from the Yeltsin era are Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Smolensky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alex Konanykhin, Mikhail Fridman, Anatoly Chubais, Vladimir Gusinsky, Vitaly Malkin and Vladimir Potanin.
Potanin, Malkin and Fridman are the only ones of the list to have made it to the Putin era. The others "have been purged by the Kremlin". Not perfect record but in the US, it's criminals get pardons and new jobs.
The oligarchs who raoed Russia under Yeltsin were almost all Jews - neat trick in a country that is less than 2% Jewish.
Of course, this is pure coincidence.
As for Ukraine, that 'Moscow Jew Cabal' crack was absolutely baseless, pulled out of absolute thin air, for no reason at all. In fact, there are no Jews or Israeli agents in Ukraine at all, and when Bandera et al went after Jews, it had nothing to do with the leading role the Jewish minority played in the Bolshevik conquest of Ukraine, and the secret police which murdered thousands thereafter.
Nothing ever said about Jews, Judaism, or Israel which involves acting in their own group interest against a majority is ever even remotely true- its all irrational hate because Jews are burdened with being The Chosen of God.
The greek and roman writers regarding jewish atrocities in cyprus, libya, and egypt 2 centuries before Christ were merely filthy nazi liars. Not a word by hundreds of scholars about the Talmud is true either.
Exactly, they are both corrupt kleptocracies where a few oligarchs and mafia buddies run the show!
Although I definitely understand and respect some of Russia's historical and ethnical claims in the Krimea, Novo Rossia/Donbass and the Ukraine, it's beyond me why Russia is constantly being promoted here as 'the good guy,' Putin as a strategical and tactical genius and Russia as an economic and hydrocarbon superpower, unless of course ZH is sponsored by the SVR... (which wouldn't surprise me the least!)
Go ahead with the red negative fiat kudos again! ;-)
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It certainly is. But hey, at least you can admit this shortcoming.
"Exactly, they are both corrupt kleptocracies where a few oligarchs and mafia buddies run the show!"
An apt description of the United States, I beleive...
Your narrowly focused and repetitive posts have identified you as a .gov sponsored troll. I have some spare time and excel at talking crap, and was wondering what the rate of pay for your position is? And, are there any openings currently? Thanks.
Ah shit, yeah you got me, I've been exposed! Another conspiracy theory becomes 'fact' because someone on ZH said so, hahaha! Who are the real trolls now?
Doesn't work, troll. Need another avatar, hmmm?
"it's beyond me"
well, that only you got right
rest is useless
In Ukraine, Criminals arrest you!
In Ukraine, Crime takes bite out of you!
In Ukraine, Tourists Govern Citizens!
Visit sunny Ukraine. Come as tourist, stay as Minister of Government.
Has Joe Biden's kid been installed as President or Finance Minister of Ukraine yet or he still just managing the looting the Ukrainian petrol company for Jaimie and the Squid Tones?
So you are saying Ukraine is better than US too.
The World needs more People like Stepan Bandera who know who the enemy is. Those fat Bankers and those mad muslims would be made short shift off. It's time the People retook their rightfull place that has been stolen from them and dont have to fear some mad muslim waiting in some dark corner wanting to have their Head removed from their Body.
Bandera was a nazi
according to you we need more nazis ?
There is no shortage of irony to go around. Kolomoisky, if I am not mistaken, is a Jew, who is financing the Right Sektor Banderists (Nazis). I don't really want to take this any farther, I am simply mining this for the humor. Anyway, I pose a thought question: Who is more offended, a Jew accused of being a Nazi, or a Nazi accused of being a Jew?
Hitler didn't like being called Shicklegruber.
"...and go on about the “Muscovite Jew cabal” they want to stamp out."
Hmm, sounds a lot like many of the typical redneck anti-semite ZH commentors who seize any opportunity to 'blame the Joowz or The Tribe.' Stephan Bandera and the new fascist regime in Kiev should be your heroes!
Hitler wanted to remove the Jewish Banksters and the same depraved hollywood types that were pushing anti family messages back in his day - and he did. At the same time, Hitler saw Stalin as a major threat to all of Europe, who must be stopped from expanding his communist non-sense and destroying capitalism any further. Stalin murdered 40 million Russians and Eastern Europeans, all for the sake of his marxist dream. Ukraine alone lost 10 million during the Holodomar through starvation and half way implemented collectivism - its no wonder Hitler was seen as a friend and hero to many in Eastern Europe. Stalin and Communism was the greater threat during those days, but communism proved to be an abject failure, and the people rose up in the late 80's early 90's to put an end to it. Putin is more capatalist than communist these days (or at least a more effective communist in controlling state property), and has managed to remove most of the controlling Jewish Central Bankers who remained from the earlier Bolshevik era (Lenin and Stalin were Jews, as many of you know). So yes, time, memory and propoganda have confused who is the hero, the bankster jew and the racist controlling nazi, as the three have gotten blurred over the years, and for good reason
Bull. The banksters happily acquiesced to Hitler's rise to power and financed his war machine. All the Nazis who were serious about banking reform were sidelined or liquidated early in Hitler's reign.
Hitler was a tool of the banksters himself. Only when the City of London found itself under continual attack by the Luftwaffe was anything of substance done to stop their Frankenstein's monster.
what happened norwegian ? aint getting any welfare anymore ?
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When people meet corrupt, wealthy "Russians" it usually turns out their are Ukrainian! Most westerners don't know the difference but yes, Ukraine is very corrupt.
Those Indians are never getting their planes back. They might get some worn out nags ready for the glue factory and some girls thrown in for fun but not their plane.s
Let me see if I understand this. A bunch of rabid elitist nazis are financed and directed by an elitist rabid jew? Is it a kindred spirit thing?
By Jove, old chap, I think you've got it!
Just substitutie hatred of Russians for the old hatred of jews and you've got the new neo-nazis. Jews financing russian hating neo-nazi's to promore the jew world order.
Since the word jew was invented to represent Judeans in the english version of the bible, is it really correct to call all these other people who are not from Judea jews?
I think it is not. I think it is real disservice to Judeans. After much research and, some crow eating, it seems that zionist is the best term to apply to the people to whom you are referring.
Slavophobia is rampant throughout all ethnic and economic strata of America.
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a lot of down voters on this thread -
hmmmm. Wonder where they are logging in from -
Dmitri, are you telling me you lost another airplane?
Vell, mebbe four more airplane...
-paraphrasing one of the best lines from Red October.
"In US neo-con circles the idea of Kiev negotiating with the rebels in the East is detested – only unconditional surrender is held to be acceptable."
Blaming bush make you look stupid. That's what your doing witht he "neocons" tag. Progressives are in charge and have been. Wrap your mind around the fact that nobody is bloodier than a state worshiping big government progressive criminal. Well, except their fellow travelers in tyranny, the bloody Islamists.
Embrace your progressive suck!
Grimadus
Excellent, Grimaldus .... the snot nosed socialist sucks have no idea how bad socialism can get !
The Neo Con religion is, and will remain, responsible for all the wars it has started. When their next President, Hillary Clinton, is elected it will be business as usual.
Trying to differentiate war mongering Neo-Cons with war mongering Progressives actually makes you stupid.
They are all American war mongering pigs.
No other country in the world has so much troops outside their own country. No other country has bombed other countries more. No other country has more debt too. And the Americans think they are exceptional, just like the carzy Nazi thought they were.
Does it matter which american group is creating all this mess?
The poor syntax of your English is telling. They must not be giving very thorough English lessons in Lubyanka. Did all those "Americian" villiages get plowed uder after 1991?
Perhaps you should watch your own syntax, zio-man.
better not worry about others syntax...
look your own errors
weswtern type of democracy IS BASED on corruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiqMAf0Wc1U
Oh, unconditional surrender would be an excellent idea. The Kiev junta should surrender unconditionally and transfer all powers of government to the Russian army, pending the re-incorporation of "Ukraine" into the Russian Federation.
I hope the puff piece in Bloomberg was worth it to the plastic Ukes pretending they're in charge of a real country.
Ukraine has never been a sovereign country.
The only thing you can have for sure is that the IMF-US will never get their money back.
"The only thing you can have for sure is that the IMF-US will never get their money back."
WTF, they print the stuff like there is no tomorrow
The IMF wants to get its money back one day, and that won’t be possible unless some things change rather dramatically.
"Getting its money" back seems to seldom be the goal of the IMF. Getting its way is "always" the goal of the IMF. And getting its way is "always" worth more to it than getting its money back. It's kind of the unwritten charter of the organization.
That said: Has there ever been a case, since its inception, that the IMF did not ultimately have its way?
The IMF has got to recover the cost of paper and ink.
Everything else they grab is just gravy.
It's such a dispicable fraud that it makes me sorry I'm not in on a deal like that.
It really sucks being a little guy.
wellspoken withglee
ZeroHedge is a Russian propaganda website. Many of its articles are written under the supervision of the propaganda chief from Moscow against the "Western degenerates". Do you take your pictures from the specialy created Russian website too?
It is funny that such a site functions in a society about which it declares that is police-state, while being directed by mafia oligarchs from Russia that is a real police-state.
Ah, about nazi - do not forget that Stalin and Hitler signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov pakt a few weeks before attacking Poland - and that Russia invaded and occupied Poland too at the begining of WW2 (after invading Finland, the Baltic States and the territory of Romania). Yet, the official Russian history/propaganda books fail to remember the mass killings that took place in Russia for the last 100 years and directed against etnic groups and other "enemy" groups, such as Polish, Ukrainian, Tatar, Georgian etc.
Now, feel free to junk this comment and prove that the Russian propaganda is superior to the American propaganda.
Why do we have to pick between two propagandas? Sounds like people are openly admitting the truth is nowhere to be found when oligarchs are involved. I hope you aren't paid much for posting this shyte.
I suppose I could claim that ZH was the propaganda outlet for New Guinean headhunters with as much validity as your accusation.
Russia is for holding peace talks.
The US has Generals openly discussing killing Russians.
Yeah, that makes it tough to pick who I might support.
Can you explain why you think killing Russians would be a good idea? Might as wipe out those Crimeans too. They're obviously very unreliable Ukrainians, along with the Eastern separatists.
Your team is going to need some help. Got any kids to send to the front lines?
Its going to be one of those "awkward moments" when Black or non-white US Soldiers train the AZOV battallion members.
Doesn't look like Georgy "Schwartz" Soros will be recooping his $5 billion investment anytime soon!...
Game Over!
Man!!!
To sum it up: Ukrainian national socialist bad, Russian national socialist good! The cognitive dissonence in here ts amazing. Accordingly the Ukrainian government is just a bunch of Nazi retreads but at the same time the Nazi's biggest failure was not killing enough Jews! These boards are either filled with some of the most naive, ignorant fools that I have ever encountered or there is a direct feed from the bowels of Lubyanka. Or both!
The beauty of posing everything in binary terms.
You will never risk braincell death from overwork from thinking.
The beauty of having been around long enough to recognize that communists and nazis are cut from the same cloth, that the differences between them are without distinction.
The Russians had been perfecting the method of shipping their racial and political "problems" to the East for slave labor and extermination for a century or so before the Germans raised it to an industrial art form.
So tell me just how much "thinking" does it take to fall back on simple answers and racial hatred that have plagued mankind for centuries? Such is the product of what passes for education in the 21st century world.
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It looks like you were able to do it with no thinking at all.
Jews weren't the only ones killed in WWII, not by a longshot
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-0Q_XUhk
Been pedaling that 6 million figure long before Hitler was on the scene
The article is a few days old; the SBU is being re organized as a political ideology enforcer:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/04/nalivaychenko-to-purge-reorganize-sb...
4/1/2015
Nalivaychenko to purge, reorganize SBU along OUN-UPA lines
By J.Hawk
SBU head Nalivaychenko gave an interview in which he said two things of interest:
1. He is aggressively purging the organization of its mid-level management. This is consistent with earlier statements by Poroshenko that a year ago 80% of SBU were FSB agents (!), which is why it was not able to prevent the Crimea and Donbass secession.
2. He believes that the best experience on which the SBU can rely is that of OUN-UPA counter-intelligence between 1930-1950. This implies a highly ideologized political secret police which is more concerned with maintaining a specific ideology or political course, rather than the integrity of the state.
How Ukraine intends to maintain its territorial integrity is a mystery that grows with every passing day. One day Poroshenko or Yatsenyuk claim ownership of victory over fascism, while the next they embrace OUN-UPA and other aspects of Ukrainian nationalism. These are entirely incompatible traditions--you can embrace one or the other (and then watch the other half of the country drift away), but not both.
Also, Porky and Yats are going toe to toe:
Lawmakers in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The premier would be removed from his post next week, according to Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc representative Sergei Kaplin.
Yatsenyuk would be dismissed from office through voting after a temporary investigative commission is established, Kaplin said.
The commission would inquire into the statements made by Nikolai Gordienko, the former official who accused Yatsenyuk of corruption. Gordienko was head of the state financial inspection. Yatsenyuk dismissed Gordienko from office because, as he said, the official was actively involved in the investigation, Kaplin claimed.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150403/1020432237.html#ixzz3WGXFwTL9
Such a circus and the USA is the Ring Master!
I can't believe that 5 planes, were flown to unknown chopshops without the local ATC, among other observers, having some record of the flights. This is an inside job imo.
What I do know is Antonove had some serious financial problems. They had not accepted or sent the five planes much less had the parts for the upgrade of avionics and oxygen systems from a pre Kiev coup contract in 2009. The current embargo and sanction prevented sales of such or at least hindered the supply chain. Technically they were in default.
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2015-04-02/antonov-strug...
The last five of the 40 to be upgraded by Antonov are apparently held up in Kiev, although both the IAF and Antonov denied Indian media reports that they had “disappeared.” In a statement issued March 31, the Ukrainian company reported that the five aircraft “now are in assembly shops of 410 Civil Aviation Plant, and Antonov Company didn’t accept and didn’t send these aircraft.”
Moreover, the local upgrade in India has ground to a halt due to the departure of the Ukraine engineers assigned to oversee the process, and the unavailability of spare parts. None of the An-32’s Russian-built components are available to Antonov, due to embargoes on any military trade between the two nations. The upgrade of the An-32 is supposed to extend the aircraft's life by 40 years with improved avionics, a modernization of the cockpit and an increase in payload from 6.7 to 7.5 tonnes.
The Antonov design bureau and its associated series production plants were one of the largest prizes left to Ukraine, when that nation became independent in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, the company has struggled to find its niche in the international marketplace and it has also been searching for a set of customers that would support ongoing operations, as well as new aircraft development programs.
Despite being a large company with a number of assets, Antonov has almost no money and numerous financial problems. It produced only two airplanes last year, three in 2013 and eight in 2012. Its net revenue for 2013 was $130 million and profits were $1.5 million
This not accurate.
It is known where the aircraft located.
Have they checked out Ebay?
... only unconditional surrender is acceptable.
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Yes. Unconditional surrender of all neocons. Followed by execution.