ABU DHABI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th February, 2019) The United Arab Emirates has signed a two-year service contract with Russian holding High Precision Systems (Vysokotochnye Kompleksy) for the maintenance of Pantsir anti-aircraft systems, worth 45 million Dirhams (over $12 million), a representative of the UAE armed forces, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Khamis Al Hassani, said on Sunday.
Earlier the day, the five-day IDEX-2019 arms exhibition opened in Abu Dhabi. The director general of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told reporters that Russia had received a request from the UAE to modernize Pantsir-S1 systems in service with the middle Eastern country's armed forces.
"The Pantsir anti-aircraft system has long been in service with the UAE [armed forces], and this is a service contract for the maintenance of these systems," Al Hassani said at the press conference on the sidelines of the exhibition.
According to the IDEX organizers, during the first day of the exhibition, the UAE armed forces signed contracts with various local and foreign companies worth more than 4 billion dirhams.
