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...exported second-and even third-hand arms. Now some of the newest and most sophisticated aircraft, tanks and missiles are for sale. The MIG-23 going to Egypt and Syria is so advanced that Moscow's Warsaw Pact allies do not even have it yet. The U.S. is allowing the export of the remote-controlled TOW, perhaps the world's deadliest antitank weapon, to Israel, South Viet Nam, Lebanon and Jordan...
...whose sales decisions take into account neither profit nor public opinion. Moscow, for example, beat France on a sale of MIG fighters to its former protectorate of Morocco. Reason: the Soviets offered 17 years of credit at 3% interest, while the best Paris could do was twelve years...
...series, assorted MIG fighter-bombers and the deadly accurate SAM antiaircraft missiles. In addition, the Kremlin for decades has shipped massive quantities of war materiel to the Warsaw Pact states and to the armies of North Korea and North Viet Nam. Dozens of other Third World countries admire Soviet weapons: MIGS, AK-47 automatic rifles (widely regarded as the world's best combat rifle) and armored cars are highly prized...
...industry is state-owned. Moscow's Chief Engineering Directorate currently handles all arms negotiations, sales, shipments and transfer agreements. Customers have been delighted to find that not only do the Soviets offer cheap credit, but they also sell at cut-rate prices. Moscow recently offered to sell some MIG-21s to Peru at one-third of what the comparable American-made F-5 would cost ($2 million). There is one hitch, however, in buying from the Russians: as Egypt has learned, it is sometimes very difficult to get Soviet spare parts...
Communist nations closely guard their export figures, but Pentagon experts believe that China supplies some weapons (such as MIG-21 fighter-bombers, with instrument panels and operating manuals in Chinese) to North Viet Nam, North Korea, Pakistan and a few revolutionary movements in Africa. Poland is a major outlet for the Warsaw Pact's surplus tanks. Czechoslovakia, whose famed Bren gun as well as the Skoda Works' howitzers made the country second only to Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues. It sells some jet trainers to other Communist states and Syria...