Earlier a Russian defense official told RIA Novosti that a contract worth as much as $500 million for the delivery of up to 100 T-72 and T-90 tanks would be signed during Chavez's visit to Moscow.
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20090910/156087089.html 
500 millones?
2009
OAO NPK Uralvagonzavod (Ural Railway Car Plant) will take part in the fulfilling of the contract for shipping Russian arms to Venezuela. Russia will provide this Latin-American country a 2.2 billion dollar tied loan for the purchase of 92 T-72 tanks, Smerch multiple rocket launchers, and cruise missiles.
The defence experts informed RusBusinessNews that it is most likely the tanks from the Ministry of Defence of the RF reserves will be exported to Venezuela. Prior to shipping all machines will undergo modernisation at the original manufacturing plant, OAO Uralvagonzavod. Choosing T-72 tanks by the Venezuelan military is explained by the price tag. The state of the art T-90 is five times more expensive, depending on options included it costs five to seven million dollars.
During recent years OAO Uralvagonzavod has been making tanks predominantly for foreign armies. India and Algeria are amongst the key buyers. India has started assembling the T-90 locally under license in 2009. Around 165 T-90C tanks have been made in Nizhniy Tagil in 2008, about a third of these were supplied to the Russian military.
Hugo Chavez's striving to establish an anti airstrike system would enable other Urals companies get more orders. The Venezuelan leader likes the Smerch multiple rocket launchers which is manufactured by "Motovilicha plants" stock corporation, Perm. Moreover, the 300 kilometre range cruise missiles will also purchased in Russia. Most likely it will be the anti-ship missile system Club made by the Experimental Design Bureau Novator in Ekaterinburg.
Venezuela has been a traditional buyer of Russian arms in recent years. Since 2005 Venezuela bought helicopters, military planes, and Kalashnikovs for the sum total of 4 billion dollars.
si el precio es el problema, y si un T-90 cuesta entre 5 y 7 millones de dolares y los T-72 son 1/5 el costo de un T-90, entonces cuestan entre 1 a 1,4 millones de dolares?
The price of a T-90 main battle tank (MBT), manufactured by Russia's Uralvagonzavod plant is $5-7 million, while the price of a T-72 model is $1-2 million, the analyst said.
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20090806/155743859.htmlcon esto puedo deducir:
el precio de 500 millones seria para hipoteticos 92 T-90
los T-72B debieron salir alrededor de 1 millon por tanque
con un credito de 2,2 billones de dolares, gastarse 100 en tanques es como que pichirre... cuando pudieron por lo menos gastarse 200 o 300 y obtener un modelo modernizado o 500 y tener un modelo nuevo.
pero al parecer, obtaron por comprar lo mas barato y asi poder comprar otras tonterias como los smerch y mas basura como loz Zu-23M y los pechoras...
Our delegation has just returned from Venezuela and the total amount of purchases could exceed $5 billion,” Putin said Monday at a meeting here on the development of the country’s arms industry.
This includes the $2.2 billion loan that Russia will provide to Venezuela for the acquisition of new Russian weapons, the premier said.
More at : Venezuela to buy arms worth $5 bn from Russia
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/wor ... z1Ni53fFcL
los 5.5 billones supongo que incluiria los S-300...
5.5 billones y solo se gastaron 100 en tanques....
