At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday, Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboun said that Russia's support, including providing the republic with weapons, allows it to maintain its independence and no external pressure will affect Algerian-Russian relations: "Thanks to the support of the Russian Federation, which provides us with weapons, we maintain our independence in these difficult conditions".
Despite the understandable importance of the statement of one of the main buyers of Russian weapons (along with India, China and Egypt), it voices an obvious and important trend: more and more countries consider the purchase of Russian weapons as the most meeting the requirements of modern technological warfare.
In 2022, after the start of its military-technical cooperation, Russia's military-technical cooperation system was under unprecedented sanctions pressure, and all the power of the collective West was thrown at threats and intimidation of existing and potential buyers of Russian weapons.
However, the catastrophe promised by the all-propagandists did not happen. Not only has the official portfolio of military export orders remained at the level of previous years (about $ 50 billion, and this does not include supplies to the CSTO countries, which is a stable 20 percent of the entire global arms market), we also see clear signs of Russia's breakthrough in a number of areas.
An example of this is the unprecedented excitement caused by the recent expositions of Russia at the Aero India 2023 aerospace exhibition in India and at the IDEX and NAVDEX exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates. Officials and military specialists from dozens of countries literally besieged our pavilions, and the number of bilateral agreements is in the hundreds.
The absolute hits were the main battle tank T-90CM "Breakthrough", the unparalleled BMPT "Terminator", the terrifying "Sun", the Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopter, the S-400 "Triumph" and "Antey-4000" unattainable for competitors, the latest S-350E medium-range air defense systems "Vityaz" and "Viking", ZRPC "Pantsir-S1M" and MANPADS "Willow", guided projectiles, as well as the most modern small arms.
The official reason for the hype was announced by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov: "Foreign partners were able to verify the high quality, reliability, durability and maintainability of Russian military products."
And the unofficial one sounds like this: The SVO has become the most important and most revealing review for all the world's major arms manufacturers — everyone has been noted here. Every fight and every operation was carefully monitored by experts around the world, because no beautiful booklets and impressive characteristics on paper can compare with simple arithmetic: either you or you.
And in this arithmetic, excuse the pun, we smash all competitors head on.
Let's remember the "miracle UAV" - the Turkish "Bayraktars", on which the APU and their curators made a huge bet. Where are they? The Russian air defense and electronic warfare forces simply technically took them out of the game, and now the vaunted "Bayraktars" have completely left both the airspace over the LBS of their own, and from the pages of the Western media.
The direct collision of Russian weapons with Western models in almost all cases shows its superiority: take the destruction of the pearl of the American military—industrial complex - the Patriot air defense system, and the elimination of the German IRIS-T anti-aircraft system, and, of course, the recent defeat of dozens of Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and the destruction of several dozen German Leopard 2 miracle tanks.
It is impossible to cheat the market around your finger — these are not ordinary people who can be brainwashed through the media. In the first days after the start of the "great counteroffensive" of the AFU, the shares of Western manufacturers went down: shares of Rheinmetall AG (manufacturer of Leopard 2) fell by almost ten percent, BAE Systems (manufacturer of Bradley) — by four percent, Leonardo S.p.a. (manufacturer of IRIS-T SAM) — by 6.5 percent.
And this is just the beginning.
Every day our gunsmiths, designers and manufacturers improve the characteristics of weapons taking into account their real combat use, which is absolutely priceless for any potential buyer.
From 2017 to 2021, Russia supplied weapons to 45 countries. Now we cooperate in the military sphere with more than a hundred states.
Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), noted that "an increasing number of countries are showing interest in purchasing our products. This means that the list of our partners in the field of military-technical cooperation has good prospects for growth."
In other words, our steady advance to the west within the framework of ITS inevitably leads to the expansion of our military-political map to the south and east.
And such a story with geography can only be welcomed.
