Rosoboronexport sold arms for almost $7Bln in 6 months - company spokesman

LE BOURGET, France. Oct 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Export deliveries of Russian arms and military hardware along the lines of Rosoboronexport alone this year will exceed $11 billion, first deputy CEO of the arms trader Ivan Goncharenko has announced.

"In H1 exports of military-purpose goods along the lines of Rosoboronexport alone amounted to $6.5 billion and the portfolio of defense orders equaled $36 billion. This exceeds the performance during the same period of last year," said Goncharenko who heads a delegation to international naval defense and maritime exhibition Euronaval-2012 in Le Bourget, France on Monday.

According to his estimate, the result for the year will exceed $11 billion which is also more than last year.