IMPLEMENT US GOV’T SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA BY CANCELLING THE CONTRACT WITH THE RUSSIAN OWNED GOV’T DEFENSE CONTRACTOR
To outfit Afghanistan's security forces with new helicopters, the Pentagon bypassed U.S. companies and turned instead to Moscow for dozens of Russian Mi-17 rotorcraft at a cost of more than $1 billion
ThePentagon repeatedly cited a top-secret 2010 study they said named the Mi-17 as the superior choice
Turns out the study told a very different story, according to unclassified excerpts obtained by The Associated Press. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/08/russian-helicopters-us-1-billio...
The U.S. Army's workhorse Chinook, built in Pennsylvania, is "the most cost-effective ... for the Afghan Air Force...”.