The contract for selling the rockets will be signed in 2016 with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Cuba and other countries. “We are talking about selling hundreds of rockets,” Klishin said.

He also noted that practically all post-Soviet countries have these air-to-air missiles, which can strike target at the height up to 20 km.

He said that R-73E missiles are unified and universal. They can be used in jets of the second, third and fourth generation, as well as planes of the fourth-plus generation: MiG-25, Su-25, Su-27, Su-30, Su-34 and Su-35.