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Sale of Missile Technologies to Brazil Denied

ITAR-TASS 9 Jun 95 By Anatoliy Yurkin

The state-run "Rosvooruzhenie" Company has denied recent reports on the sale of Russian missile technologies to Brazil. Valeriy Pogrebenkov, chairman of the Company, told Itar-Tass today that no contracts of this kind existed at present between the two countries. "Rosvooruzhenie," he added, supplies armaments and combat equipment to its commercial partners on the basis of international regulations, but concludes no deals on technologies. The numerous reports on the alleged Brazilian deal, Russian experts engaged in forecasting processes on the world armaments market, are a continuation of the deliberate campaign to discredit rivals. It was launched before the Russo-Indian deal on cryogenic engines and was continued in the "Iranian direction" for the purpose of thwarting the order for the delivery of nuclear reactors for the Bushehr nuclear power plant project, which is profitable for Russia.

Competition on the world market, analysts of the Russian Defence Research Institute believe, involves the extensive use of intelligence data and the mass media. It is not without reason, they stress, that the U.S. Administration, which has submitted to the Congress some information on the "Brazilian-Russian deal," referred to conclusions drawn by the Intelligence Service. Exactly the same was done during the Russo-Indian and Russo-Iranian negotiations, which preceded the conclusion of contracts obviously contradicting the interests of U.S. industrial and scientific circles.

What matters in the given case, experts of the Institute presume, is not the supply of Russian missile technologies to Brazil, but the interest evinced by Latin American researchers in their peaceful national space programme. For instance, they are interested in the problem of light materials used in missile engines. Such production technologies are possessed by the United States and several European countries which are engaged in the most acute competition. It is simply disadvantageous for them to give Russia access to their market. This is why such a hullabaloo was raised around the "Brazilian contract," which even reached the American Congress, and then, for quite obvious reasons, flooded the press.

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