Oct 9, 2015 By Dylan Vosman - defence-blog.com

Russia will sign contract on Mi-35 deliveries to Afghanistan in October. The Afghan government intends to buy Mi-35 attack helicopters from Russia in a bid to boost the capabilities of the Afghan Air Force. The Afghan Air Force received the first six Armed MD-530s last month with the NATO Train, Assist, Advise Command-Air and 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, saying that the armed MD-530s will increase the Afghan Air Force aerial fires capability. Armed Mi-17s and MD-530s give the Afghan Air Force six times the number of armed aircraft for Fighting Season 2015 as compared to last fighting season, which only employed five Mi-35s.

PRETORIA, 19 septembre - RIA Novosti

La Russie livrera six hélicoptères Mi-17 et six hélicoptères Mi-35 au Nigéria, a annoncé vendredi à Pretoria Sergueï Goreslavski, directeur général adjoint de l'Agence russe d'exportation d'armements (Rosoboronexport).

"En août dernier, nous avons signé un contrat important avec le Nigéria sur la livraison d'hélicoptères Mi-35 et Mi-17. Le contrat porte sur 12 appareils, six de chaque type", a indiqué M.Goreslavski lors du salon international de la défense Africa Aerospace and Defence 2014 qui se déroule en Afrique du Sud.

Selon lui, le premier lot d'hélicoptères arrivera au Nigéria dans un an.

M.Goreslavski n'a pas précisé le montant du contrat.

DUBAI, November 8 (RIA Novisti)

Iraq took collection Thursday night of the first four Russian-made Mi-35 helicopter gunships sold to the Middle Eastern nation as part of a multibillion dollar weapons deal.

Iraqi leader Nuri al-Maliki posted pictures of the aircraft on his official Facebook page.

Abbas al-Bayati, a lawmaker with al-Maliki’s ruling faction in parliament, told RIA Novosti that Iraq expects to receive a consignment of around 40 Mi-35 and Mi-28NE attack helicopters by the end of the year.

Iraq is looking to use the newly bought military materiel to bolster its borders and for use in antiterrorist operations.

Russia is to supply 48 Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile gun systems in addition to the helicopters under a $4.3 billion agreement on cooperation in the defense and technology sector signed in 2012.

Russia has under the framework of that deal also committed to supplying Iraq with Ka-52 single-seat attack helicopters.

The arms deal had looked to be at risk earlier this year amid speculation that Iraqi authorities were considering withdrawing from the arrangement over suspicions of corruption.

Anatoly Isaykin, general director of state-run arms holding company Rosoboronexport, denied in February that the contract had been canceled, however, and said only that it had yet to enter into force.