The United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a contract, worth some 147 million dirhams ($40 million), to purchase Kornet-E anti-tank missile systems from Russia, a representative of the UAE armed forces, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Al Hassani, said on Sunday.
ABU DHABI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th February, 2019) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a contract, worth some 147 million Dirhams ($40 million), to purchase Kornet-E anti-tank missile systems from Russia, a representative of the UAE armed forces, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Al Hassani, said on Sunday.
The contract was signed during the International Defense Exhibition and Conference IDEX 2019, which kicked off in Abu Dhabi earlier in the day and will run through February 21.
"A contract has been signed with the Russian JSC KBP Instrument Design Bureau [defense industry] company to buy Kornet-E systems worth 146,92 million dirhams," Hassani told reporters.
According to the organizers, during the first day of the exhibition, the UAE armed forces signed a number of contracts with local and foreign companies worth more than 4 billion dirhams in total.
