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For starters, Russia signed a long awaited deal with the Chinese military to sell 24 Sukhoi SU-35 multirole fighter planes and four electric-diesel submarines.
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France is also supplying Pakistan with new, badly needed, diesel submarines.
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Last year, Chavez stated that Russia would deliver 5 Kilo class 636 diesel submarines to Venezuela, 10 more Su-30MK fighter aircrafts and 5, 000 Dragunov sniper riffles.
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These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
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Green zanies are utilizing the Marine Mammal Protection Act to prevent the Navy from developing and employing antisubmarine sys-tems that could detect the ever quieter diesel submarines operated by such "friendly" nations as North Korea and Iran.
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As a young man, I bought myself a ticket on the Isle of Wight ferry, and sailed through the lines of warships at anchor in the Solent - there were lines of Leander class frigates, 'O' class diesel submarines, and minesweepers.
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China has bought 12 Russian Kilo-class diesel attack submarines.
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Meanwhile, the four Lada-class diesel-electric submarines will be jointly designed and built by both countries, with two of them to be built in Russia and the other two in China.
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