Philippines scrapped a US$227.7 million deal for 16 Russian Mi-17 helicopters.
may have sounded the death knell for its own arms sales to Asia, once one of its biggest weapons export markets.
“The days of Russia being top dog in Southeast Asia are over. I think they were over even before the war, and I don’t think they’ll ever recover,” said Dr Ian Storey, a Southeast Asian security expert at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. The reputation of Russian manufactured jets – Moscow’s most lucrative defence export to the region – took a hit when one of its most advanced fighters, a fourth generation-plus SU-35, was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile over Ukraine in April.
Last year, Indonesia also announced it would abandon plans to buy 11 Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E fighter aircraft, reportedly also due to concerns it could trigger sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, passed by Congress in 2017.
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