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ON SALE! 117 MIG-31, MIG-29 & OTHER RUSSIAN-ORIGIN FIGHTER JETS PUT UP ON
AUCTION BY KAZAKHSTAN; HERE’S WHY

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Sakshi Tiwari
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October 28, 2023
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Former Soviet republic and Russia-led CSTO member Kazakhstan is known to have
put up more than 100 Soviet-origin fighter jets and bombers for sale days after
it blocked the export of military goods to Russia.

Over a hundred decommissioned Soviet fighter planes and bombers, along with
their aviation engines, are for sale in Kazakhstan. The announcements about the
sale of state-owned assets have been uploaded online, according to reports that
first appeared in local Kazakh media.

The aircraft is being offered for sale under the condition of liquidation,
according to Forbes Kazakhstan. The auction will feature 117 aircraft that were
part of the military formations in the regions of Almaty, Abai, Karaganda, and
Shymkent in the past. 

The bulk of these aircraft now on sale include MiG-31, MiG-27, MiG-29, and Su-24
models manufactured in the Cold War era of the mid-1970s and 80s. Both Russia
and Ukraine have deployed some of these fighters in the ongoing war; many pulled
out of cold storage by either side after sustaining heavy losses.

According to the reports, these evaluated assets are no longer fit for use due
to moral obsolescence, and modernizing them would not be economically feasible. 





These “assets must be liquidated using disposal at the balance holder’s site,”
according to the document doing the online rounds. The document further notes
that “it is not feasible to use the evaluated assets for other purposes,
including as a source of spare parts, given their technical condition and
uniqueness.”

The Republican State Enterprise “Qazarnauliexport” (also known as
“Kazspecexport”) is reportedly overseeing the auction on behalf of the Ministry
of Industry and Infrastructure Development’s Committee for State Defense Orders.
The decommissioned aircraft have a total estimated worth of 1.9 trillion tenge.

Kazakhstan is a former Soviet republic that, like other previous Soviet states,
inherited Soviet military assets, including fighter jets, on the disintegration
of the communist bloc in the 1990s. However, it has focused on acquiring the
latest and more advanced combat-tested fighter jets in recent years.



File: Kazakh Sukhoi Su-30SM

For instance, the Central Asian nation has acquired several Su-30SM fighters
from Russia in the last eight years. The first deliveries started in 2015 when
Kazakhstan received four state-of-the-art Su-30SM fighter jets from Russia.

Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry
Shugayev, said in 2021 that 20 Su-30SMs had been delivered to the country, with
four Sukhoi Su-30SM ‘Flanker-H’ multirole fighter aircraft slated for delivery
from Russia by the end of 2022. “It was understood that the last four are needed
to complete the second squadron of these jets. We do not have an update on that
delivery.”



It has long been reported that Kazakhstan plans to acquire three squadrons of
Su-30SMs totaling 36 aircraft. However, there has been no follow-up on the
much-needed purchase in recent months, which could be attributed to Russia’s war
against Ukraine.

Kazakhstan has the most sophisticated air force in Central Asia, which it uses
for low-level ground assaults against terrorists, militants, and other insurgent
organizations, among other non-state entities in the region.

The Su-30SM is Kazakhstan’s most potent fighter aircraft, which joined the fleet
of more traditional Soviet-era aircraft, including thirteen Su-24s, twenty
MiG-31s, and slightly more than twenty MiG-29s.



Although this has bolstered the Kazakh air force in the face of rising regional
threats, the Central Asian country has decided to do away with the other archaic
jets already decommissioned long ago. It has yet to announce how to use the
money from selling the jets.

Moreover, the auction is also significant as it comes at a time when the
international community has isolated Moscow and has been counting on its allies
for military and economic support.


KAZAKHSTAN SAYS NO TO MILITARY SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA

In what seems to be a thaw in ties between the two partners, Kazakhstan has
curtailed its exports to Russia that are intended for military use in response
to Western demands that the Central Asian country and its neighbors adhere to
sanctions placed on Moscow due to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

On October 19, Kairat Torebaev, the deputy minister of trade for Kazakhstan,
announced that the government had prohibited the sale of 106 commodities
“related to the war” to Russia. These items included computer chips,
electronics, and drone components made in other countries. “We have completely
restricted their export,” he said.

Following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western
nations have denounced Kazakhstan and other Central Asian states for permitting
military supplies to flow across their borders and into Russia.

File Image: Russian soldiers

According to an investigation conducted by Radio Free Europe in June, sanctioned
Western electronics enter Russia through Kyrgyz and Kazakh businesses, some of
which were founded soon after the Kremlin invaded Ukraine, and end up in the
hands of suppliers to the Russian defense sector.

The US and the EU have pushed the governments of Central Asia to oppose Moscow’s
attempts to exploit trade routes via the region as a way for Russia to get
around sanctions imposed on it as a result of its war. By restricting specific
exports to non-cooperative states, the EU has attempted to curb the re-export of
sensitive commodities to Russia by third parties.



The announcement on October 19 came some weeks after Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, the
president of Kazakhstan, promised during discussions with German Chancellor Olaf
Scholz in Berlin that he would not assist Russia in evading Western sanctions.

Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kazakhstan has tight military and economic
links with the Russian capital, with which it shares a 7,500-kilometer border.
The country was one of the 32 countries that refrained from casting ballots on a
UN resolution demanding that Russia immediately halt its war in Ukraine and
withdraw its military from the country by February 2023.

There were some hiccups in the relationship earlier this year, especially as
Russia was accused of recruiting volunteers from Kazakhstan. However, earlier in
October, Tokaev met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo state
residence outside Moscow, signaling that the relationship hasn’t gone through a
significant transformation.

 * Contact the author at sakshi.tiwari9555 (at) gmail.com
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Sakshi Tiwari
Sakshi Tiwari has studied journalism from the prestigious Indian Institute of
Mass Communication and holds a masters’ degree in Defense and National Security.
An avid defense enthusiast, she can be reached at sakshi.tiwari9555 (at)
gmail.com



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