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Myanmar air force should seriously consider buying Su 75 checkmate once its ready for export. It is a stealth fighter in reasonable price.
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Pakistan Defense Delegation Made Unannounced Visit to Myanmar Capital
By The Irrawaddy 8 September 2021
A high-level delegation from the Pakistani Defense Ministry visited Myanmar in the first week of this month. The visit was not announced by either side.
According to well-informed sources in Naypyitaw, the delegation arrived there on Sept. 1 and left on Sept. 5. It is believed that during their stay, the Pakistani delegation and Myanmar military leaders held talks on advanced ordnance technology, aircraft repair and maintenance, and naval munitions.
Separately, a group of about eight officers from the Myanmar Police Force is scheduled to visit Karachi on Sept. 10-30 for training in explosives and mine-disposal techniques, the sources said.
Myanmar has in the past purchased JF-17 multi-role combat aircraft from Pakistan, and is currently in “advanced negotiations” to build third-generation models under license.
The JF-17 is co-developed by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation. The jet fighters can engage in air-to-air battles but also have ground-attack capabilities allowing them to deliver both dumb bombs and precision-guided munitions. They are suitable for Myanmar, where armed conflict with ethnic rebels is frequent.
Relations between Islamabad and Naypyitaw have been strained since the Rohingya crisis of 2017, which saw more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh after security forces launched clearance operations in northern Rakhine State in response to a series of attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on police outposts.
In March, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry expressed grief over the deaths of more than a dozen Rohingya refugees after a massive fire swept through a camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, saying the incident was a “sad reminder of continued sufferings of Rohingya Muslims.”
In 2018, The Irrawaddy reported that the Myanmar Embassy in Pakistan had spent hundreds of millions of kyats on tightened security measures amid reports that the site had been targeted by terrorists due to the Rakhine issue.
At the time, rallies protesting against the Myanmar government’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims were held in several places in Pakistan after the Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned the Myanmar ambassador to protest alleged human rights abuses against the group.
“The National Counter Terrorism Authority of Pakistan told us that there could be terror attacks on our embassy,” a Myanmar official said at the time.
However, reports have also emerged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency allegedly arranged arms training for 40 Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar.
ARSA, a terrorist group based along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, allegedly has links with Bangladesh-based terror groups, criminal gangs and militant outfits.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visits the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra in 2015. / GNLM
Analysts believe that in light of the changing political landscape in Myanmar, Islamabad officials have decided to reach out to military leaders in Myanmar to revive relations.
China sent its Special Envoy Sun Guoxiang to Myanmar recently. He held talks with top-ranking military junta officials including regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Like China, Pakistan is making assessments of developments in Myanmar and anticipates that the Myanmar military will continue to hold on to power indefinitely. Analysts said it is likely that Myanmar and Pakistan will increase defense cooperation.
As Pakistan has a long and strong relationship with China it is likely that Islamabad plans to propose sub-conventional warfare training and equipment; maintenance and overhaul of Chinese-origin equipment; and defense sales through Pakistan Defense Industries, as potential areas of bilateral engagement.
Faced with strong anti-China sentiment in Myanmar, China can use Pakistan as a proxy to continue its assistance to the Myanmar military, Yangon-based analysts concluded.
After Sun’s visit to Myanmar, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said, “We will work together with the international community to play a constructive role in Myanmar’s efforts to restore social stability and resume democratic transformation at an early date.”
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By The Irrawaddy 8 September 2021
A high-level delegation from the Pakistani Defense Ministry visited Myanmar in the first week of this month. The visit was not announced by either side.
According to well-informed sources in Naypyitaw, the delegation arrived there on Sept. 1 and left on Sept. 5. It is believed that during their stay, the Pakistani delegation and Myanmar military leaders held talks on advanced ordnance technology, aircraft repair and maintenance, and naval munitions.
Separately, a group of about eight officers from the Myanmar Police Force is scheduled to visit Karachi on Sept. 10-30 for training in explosives and mine-disposal techniques, the sources said.
Myanmar has in the past purchased JF-17 multi-role combat aircraft from Pakistan, and is currently in “advanced negotiations” to build third-generation models under license.
The JF-17 is co-developed by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation. The jet fighters can engage in air-to-air battles but also have ground-attack capabilities allowing them to deliver both dumb bombs and precision-guided munitions. They are suitable for Myanmar, where armed conflict with ethnic rebels is frequent.
Relations between Islamabad and Naypyitaw have been strained since the Rohingya crisis of 2017, which saw more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh after security forces launched clearance operations in northern Rakhine State in response to a series of attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on police outposts.
In March, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry expressed grief over the deaths of more than a dozen Rohingya refugees after a massive fire swept through a camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, saying the incident was a “sad reminder of continued sufferings of Rohingya Muslims.”
In 2018, The Irrawaddy reported that the Myanmar Embassy in Pakistan had spent hundreds of millions of kyats on tightened security measures amid reports that the site had been targeted by terrorists due to the Rakhine issue.
At the time, rallies protesting against the Myanmar government’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims were held in several places in Pakistan after the Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned the Myanmar ambassador to protest alleged human rights abuses against the group.
“The National Counter Terrorism Authority of Pakistan told us that there could be terror attacks on our embassy,” a Myanmar official said at the time.
However, reports have also emerged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency allegedly arranged arms training for 40 Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar.
ARSA, a terrorist group based along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, allegedly has links with Bangladesh-based terror groups, criminal gangs and militant outfits.
Analysts believe that in light of the changing political landscape in Myanmar, Islamabad officials have decided to reach out to military leaders in Myanmar to revive relations.
China sent its Special Envoy Sun Guoxiang to Myanmar recently. He held talks with top-ranking military junta officials including regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Like China, Pakistan is making assessments of developments in Myanmar and anticipates that the Myanmar military will continue to hold on to power indefinitely. Analysts said it is likely that Myanmar and Pakistan will increase defense cooperation.
As Pakistan has a long and strong relationship with China it is likely that Islamabad plans to propose sub-conventional warfare training and equipment; maintenance and overhaul of Chinese-origin equipment; and defense sales through Pakistan Defense Industries, as potential areas of bilateral engagement.
Faced with strong anti-China sentiment in Myanmar, China can use Pakistan as a proxy to continue its assistance to the Myanmar military, Yangon-based analysts concluded.
After Sun’s visit to Myanmar, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said, “We will work together with the international community to play a constructive role in Myanmar’s efforts to restore social stability and resume democratic transformation at an early date.”
Pakistan Defense Delegation Made Unannounced Visit to Myanmar Capital
Regime leaders held talks last week with the high-level Pakistani delegation on weapons systems and aircraft maintenance, among other topics, sources said.
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Veteran Arms Dealer Continues to Supply Myanmar Junta
By The Irrawaddy 27 October 2021
Dr. Naing Htut Aung, a major arms supplier for Myanmar’s military, was also a key weapons dealer for the previous regime led by dictator Senior General Than Shwe.
Registered as a director of the Yangon-based International Gateways Group of Companies Limited, Dr. Naing Htut Aung has had strong ties with successive military leaders, including the current Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, sources told The Irrawaddy.
He is a dominant procurer of weapons, spare parts and upgrades for the navy and air force and is an agent for major state-owned Chinese arms producers, said Justice for Myanmar (JFM), an activist group that monitors the military’s businesses, citing a private-sector source with military connections.
Dr. Naing Htut Aung has good ties with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing.
He was a middleman in the air force’s procurement of 16 JF-17 Thunder fighter jets from Pakistan in 2015. He was also a key figure in a joint venture between the Directorate of Myanmar Defence Industries and China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation to produce the K-8 jet trainer and light attack aircraft in Myanmar.
Myanmar’s military bought 16 JF-17 Thunder multi-role combat aircraft from Pakistan, according to Jane’s Defence Weekly, a specialist military magazine.
A JF-17 aircraft costs around US$28 million and the overall deal was worth around $560 million. The aircraft is co-developed by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and the China-based Chengdu Aerospace Corporation.
Dr. Naing Htut Aung, according to the JFM, is a former director and shareholder of Myanmar Consultancy, which is involved in the procurement of military equipment from Ukraine and India.
Dr. Naing Htut Aung has good ties with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing.
His businesses, Gateways International Holding Company and International Gateways Group of Companies, were registered at the same address as Myanmar Consultancy until late 2020.
Ukrainian export records show Myanmar Consultancy received regular Ukrspecexport shipments from 2016 to 2020, largely of MiG-29 fighter jet parts, 36D6 air surveillance radar components and an IGLA-1M surface-to-air missile simulator.
Ukrspecexport is a state-owned Ukrainian arms trader. Myanmar Consultancy has also received shipments of land-based radar from India’s state-owned Bharat Electronics Ltd.
Myanmar Consultancy was an online exhibitor at the MAKS 2021 air show in Russia, which Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing attended in person.
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($28 million)*16 = $448 million
$560-$448 million = $112 million
For each aircraft of $28 million, on average $7 million is spent on spares, weapons and other services.
By The Irrawaddy 27 October 2021
Dr. Naing Htut Aung, a major arms supplier for Myanmar’s military, was also a key weapons dealer for the previous regime led by dictator Senior General Than Shwe.
Registered as a director of the Yangon-based International Gateways Group of Companies Limited, Dr. Naing Htut Aung has had strong ties with successive military leaders, including the current Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, sources told The Irrawaddy.
He is a dominant procurer of weapons, spare parts and upgrades for the navy and air force and is an agent for major state-owned Chinese arms producers, said Justice for Myanmar (JFM), an activist group that monitors the military’s businesses, citing a private-sector source with military connections.
He was a middleman in the air force’s procurement of 16 JF-17 Thunder fighter jets from Pakistan in 2015. He was also a key figure in a joint venture between the Directorate of Myanmar Defence Industries and China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation to produce the K-8 jet trainer and light attack aircraft in Myanmar.
Myanmar’s military bought 16 JF-17 Thunder multi-role combat aircraft from Pakistan, according to Jane’s Defence Weekly, a specialist military magazine.
A JF-17 aircraft costs around US$28 million and the overall deal was worth around $560 million. The aircraft is co-developed by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and the China-based Chengdu Aerospace Corporation.
Dr. Naing Htut Aung, according to the JFM, is a former director and shareholder of Myanmar Consultancy, which is involved in the procurement of military equipment from Ukraine and India.
Dr. Naing Htut Aung has good ties with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing.
His businesses, Gateways International Holding Company and International Gateways Group of Companies, were registered at the same address as Myanmar Consultancy until late 2020.
Ukrainian export records show Myanmar Consultancy received regular Ukrspecexport shipments from 2016 to 2020, largely of MiG-29 fighter jet parts, 36D6 air surveillance radar components and an IGLA-1M surface-to-air missile simulator.
Ukrspecexport is a state-owned Ukrainian arms trader. Myanmar Consultancy has also received shipments of land-based radar from India’s state-owned Bharat Electronics Ltd.
Myanmar Consultancy was an online exhibitor at the MAKS 2021 air show in Russia, which Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing attended in person.
Veteran Arms Dealer Continues to Supply Myanmar Junta
Dr. Naing Htut Aung has been involved in numerous weapons deals over many years.
www.irrawaddy.com
($28 million)*16 = $448 million
$560-$448 million = $112 million
For each aircraft of $28 million, on average $7 million is spent on spares, weapons and other services.
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I would be very happy about this under different circumstances.
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It seems they just finished researching PT-6 aircraft and are now able to produce the first type. I remember back in 2019, this program is just in the research phase.
I think MTX-1A is a designated name for the aircraft. I think later variants will be introduced down the line such as MTX-1B, 1C.
P.S: I also would be a lot happier under different circumstances since I am the loudest advocater of the indigenous aircraft program for the Myanmar Military. I hope things will change for the better.
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Myanmar, during the navy ceremony, as usual, some military units are officially added to the fleet, with surprise also the submarine UMS Minye Kyaw Htin - Type 035, probably donated by China.
Which will join the Kilo-class submarine donated by India
images posted on another site by user "hufden"
Which will join the Kilo-class submarine donated by India
images posted on another site by user "hufden"
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Russia has still not revealed the final price for the Su-75. The range that it has stated does not include the development and manufacturing costs. Not to mention setting up the maintenance facilities.
The Burmese have ordered 6 Su-30SME variants in 2018 but nothing else after that, indicating that they do not have the budget. The cheapest (including operating cost) that Su-75 would come is around $50-60 million apiece. That is not considering the setting up costs for the infrastructure, maintenance, training, spares, etc.
Myanmar's defense budget is smaller than Bangladesh's at <$3 billion. Even with Russian financing schemes, they would not really make a potent air power. They would rather be better off with Yak-130 light attack jets and instead focus on modernizing their troop transport and military logistics in the denser northern regions of the country.
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The 6 river boats were a surprise too
First pic I have seen of the Su-30. But I'm not sure if its real. It looks real but they have not been offically commisioned so I have my doubts.
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Those light gunboats look pretty good! Nice development. But tell me something; isn't operating Su-30 series a tad strain on the defence budget that you guys have?
Wouldn't light fighters like the Aero L-159 or L-15 or Yak-130 make more sense to replace your older jets?
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What is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard doing in Myanmar?
Iranian planes landing in Myanmar have raised speculation of secretive military-to-military cooperation, including possible sensitive Iranian weapons sales amid rising international calls to impose an arms embargo on the rights-abusing junta.
Diplomatic sources based in Southeast Asia who requested anonymity said that an Iranian delegation that landed in Myanmar on January 13 was either the second or third to visit since the military seized power and suspended democracy in a February 1, 2021, coup.
Iran is accused of providing military equipment and weapons to several repressive regimes, as well as to Tehran-aligned belligerents in the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars. But Iran is not known to have military ties to Myanmar, which relies mostly on Russia and China as well as India for its armaments.
Moreover, in 2017, the deputy head of the Iranian Parliament called for the creation of joint military forces by Muslim countries to stop Myanmar military violence against ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims that has driven hundreds of thousands into neighboring Bangladesh and the United Nations has said could constitute “genocide.”
According to data on Flightradar24, a plane owned by the Iranian cargo airline Qeshm Fars Air flew from Mashhad, Iran’s second-biggest city, to Myanmar last Thursday. The plane returned to Iran from Myanmar the following day, the flight tracker data reveals.
“This is the second time I have noticed an Iran flight. It is understood [to be] communication related to military technology,” Zin Mar Aung, foreign minister of the shadow National Unity Government (NUG), told Asia Times.
“Military relations between [Myanmar’s] military junta, which seeks to adopt a military authoritarianism, and a country like Iran can be said to be a worrying situation, not only for atrocities against the Myanmar people but also from a regional and international security perspective,“ she added.
In 2019, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Qeshm Fars Air for allegedly transporting weapons to Tehran-backed groups in the Syrian civil war on behalf of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Qods Force (IRGC-QF), a military unit specialized in unconventional warfare.
Qeshm Fars Air is under US sanctions but is flying freely to Myanmar. Image: Wikiwand
In announcing the sanctions, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control specified two Qeshm Fars Air-owned aircraft of concern, one of which, with the registration “EP-FAA”, appears to have been the plane that flew to Myanmar last week, according to flight tracker services.
Qeshm Fars Air, which originally operated as a commercial airline between 2006 and 2013, restarted operations in 2017, and its fleet of two B747 aircraft have operated regular cargo flights to Damascus, delivering cargo, including weapons shipments, on behalf of the IRGC-QF, the US sanctions order said, warning those who provide support to the airline risk sanctions themselves.
The Irrawaddy, a local news outfit, reported before the coup in early January 2020 that an Iranian plane had briefly stopped at Naypyidaw’s airport that month. Sources then told the newspaper that it may have been delivering military cargo.
Asia Times has not been able to find reports in Iranian media of the visits to Myanmar by Iranian delegations since the coup, nor confirm the purpose of the Iranian delegation visiting Myanmar last week.
However, Asia Times has seen what appears to be a list of names of the Iranian visitors on last week’s delegation, as well as those who visited some months ago.
An Iranian analyst, who also requested anonymity, said that some of the names are the same as Iranian individuals with links to the military, including to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Asia Times could not immediately confirm independently whether they are the same people.
Nor is clear what type of weaponry Iran could offer Myanmar that would give the Tatmadaw a potential new edge in its confrontation with a burgeoning anti-coup popular resistance, including new People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) that are attacking the junta across the country.
Sources monitoring the recent Iranian flights suggest Tehran may be offering to provide Myanmar’s junta with guided missiles, a procurement that would raise eyebrows in neighboring nations including Thailand and India. The junta has increasingly used aerial bombardments and helicopter-borne gun attacks against resistance forces.
Myanmar’s Tatmadaw is planning a massive offensive against newly formed people’s defense forces. Photo: Facebook
More than 1,400 civilians have been killed by security forces since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a human rights group. Reports of military torture, rape and executions are commonplace on Myanmar social media.
The NUG, a shadow government set up last April by ousted parliamentarians and civil-society groups, declared a “people’s defensive war” in September and has called for armed resistance against the junta.
The European Union has proposed a binding international arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the coup and post-coup abuses. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution last year calling on all states to “to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar.”
However, analysts reckon that it will be difficult to stop the sale of munitions and equipment to the junta even if an embargo is imposed, which seems unlikely.
“China and Russia, the two largest providers [of weaponry], are likely to block any UN Secretary Council resolution or abstain,” said Hunter Marston, a researcher on Southeast Asia at the Australian National University.
Some NUG members have said that an international embargo should only be imposed on arms sales to the junta and not its supporters.
At the same time, there are rising calls for democratic Western countries to supply weapons to outgunned anti-junta forces, who are currently relying on ethnic armed organizations and other groups along the border with Thailand for their until now meager arms.
Shawn W. Crispin provided reporting from Bangkok.
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Iranian planes landing in Myanmar have raised speculation of secretive military-to-military cooperation, including possible sensitive Iranian weapons sales amid rising international calls to impose an arms embargo on the rights-abusing junta.
Diplomatic sources based in Southeast Asia who requested anonymity said that an Iranian delegation that landed in Myanmar on January 13 was either the second or third to visit since the military seized power and suspended democracy in a February 1, 2021, coup.
Iran is accused of providing military equipment and weapons to several repressive regimes, as well as to Tehran-aligned belligerents in the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars. But Iran is not known to have military ties to Myanmar, which relies mostly on Russia and China as well as India for its armaments.
Moreover, in 2017, the deputy head of the Iranian Parliament called for the creation of joint military forces by Muslim countries to stop Myanmar military violence against ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims that has driven hundreds of thousands into neighboring Bangladesh and the United Nations has said could constitute “genocide.”
According to data on Flightradar24, a plane owned by the Iranian cargo airline Qeshm Fars Air flew from Mashhad, Iran’s second-biggest city, to Myanmar last Thursday. The plane returned to Iran from Myanmar the following day, the flight tracker data reveals.
“This is the second time I have noticed an Iran flight. It is understood [to be] communication related to military technology,” Zin Mar Aung, foreign minister of the shadow National Unity Government (NUG), told Asia Times.
“Military relations between [Myanmar’s] military junta, which seeks to adopt a military authoritarianism, and a country like Iran can be said to be a worrying situation, not only for atrocities against the Myanmar people but also from a regional and international security perspective,“ she added.
In 2019, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Qeshm Fars Air for allegedly transporting weapons to Tehran-backed groups in the Syrian civil war on behalf of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Qods Force (IRGC-QF), a military unit specialized in unconventional warfare.
Qeshm Fars Air is under US sanctions but is flying freely to Myanmar. Image: Wikiwand
In announcing the sanctions, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control specified two Qeshm Fars Air-owned aircraft of concern, one of which, with the registration “EP-FAA”, appears to have been the plane that flew to Myanmar last week, according to flight tracker services.
Qeshm Fars Air, which originally operated as a commercial airline between 2006 and 2013, restarted operations in 2017, and its fleet of two B747 aircraft have operated regular cargo flights to Damascus, delivering cargo, including weapons shipments, on behalf of the IRGC-QF, the US sanctions order said, warning those who provide support to the airline risk sanctions themselves.
The Irrawaddy, a local news outfit, reported before the coup in early January 2020 that an Iranian plane had briefly stopped at Naypyidaw’s airport that month. Sources then told the newspaper that it may have been delivering military cargo.
Asia Times has not been able to find reports in Iranian media of the visits to Myanmar by Iranian delegations since the coup, nor confirm the purpose of the Iranian delegation visiting Myanmar last week.
However, Asia Times has seen what appears to be a list of names of the Iranian visitors on last week’s delegation, as well as those who visited some months ago.
An Iranian analyst, who also requested anonymity, said that some of the names are the same as Iranian individuals with links to the military, including to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Asia Times could not immediately confirm independently whether they are the same people.
Nor is clear what type of weaponry Iran could offer Myanmar that would give the Tatmadaw a potential new edge in its confrontation with a burgeoning anti-coup popular resistance, including new People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) that are attacking the junta across the country.
Sources monitoring the recent Iranian flights suggest Tehran may be offering to provide Myanmar’s junta with guided missiles, a procurement that would raise eyebrows in neighboring nations including Thailand and India. The junta has increasingly used aerial bombardments and helicopter-borne gun attacks against resistance forces.
Myanmar’s Tatmadaw is planning a massive offensive against newly formed people’s defense forces. Photo: Facebook
More than 1,400 civilians have been killed by security forces since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a human rights group. Reports of military torture, rape and executions are commonplace on Myanmar social media.
The NUG, a shadow government set up last April by ousted parliamentarians and civil-society groups, declared a “people’s defensive war” in September and has called for armed resistance against the junta.
The European Union has proposed a binding international arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the coup and post-coup abuses. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution last year calling on all states to “to prevent the flow of arms into Myanmar.”
However, analysts reckon that it will be difficult to stop the sale of munitions and equipment to the junta even if an embargo is imposed, which seems unlikely.
“China and Russia, the two largest providers [of weaponry], are likely to block any UN Secretary Council resolution or abstain,” said Hunter Marston, a researcher on Southeast Asia at the Australian National University.
Some NUG members have said that an international embargo should only be imposed on arms sales to the junta and not its supporters.
At the same time, there are rising calls for democratic Western countries to supply weapons to outgunned anti-junta forces, who are currently relying on ethnic armed organizations and other groups along the border with Thailand for their until now meager arms.
Shawn W. Crispin provided reporting from Bangkok.
What is Iran's Revolutionary Guard doing in Myanmar? - Asia Times
Iranian planes landing in Myanmar have raised speculation of secretive military-to-military cooperation, including possible sensitive Iranian weapons
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There is talk of Myanmar buying JF-17 Block-III
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Myanmar and Pakistan in arms deal, guided by China
Islamabad is expecting deeper cooperation with Beijing in terms of sub-warfare equipment development, letting Pakistan do maintenance and overhaul for Chinese origin equipment, and more importantly, let Pakistani's Defense industries become an avenue for Chinese defence sales.
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I don’t think Myanmar general will go for that. Even with all theses struggles, they still have enough spending power to buy good airplanes such as JF 17 block III. They are not stupid enough to buy Chinese secondhand junks. They are way too smart to play between western powers and eastern allies and took what they want which is total control of the country.
Saw the Myanmar DI brochures online with a Google e-mail address for contacting them. Wondering if it's safe to ask for brochures? (Don't know if they can do PDF or just pictures).
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Any new photos of this MA-1 Mk III rifle? I heard that the look has changed (looks brown now) due to the materials used to make it.
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Any new photos of this MA-1 Mk III rifle? I heard that the look has changed (looks brown now) due to the materials used to make it.
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