Myanmar's Purchase of Planes From Jordan a Sign of Things to Come
Myanmar’s Purchase of Planes From Jordan a Sign of Things to Come 10 December 2020 An Airbus CASA C295 / Flickr 6.8k By The Irrawaddy 18 December 2020 News reports have emerged that Myanmar’s air force is buying two Airbus CASA C295 aircraft worth US$38.6 million (52.29 billion kyats) from the Royal Jordanian Air Force. While Airbus, based in the EU, would be prevented from entering such a deal directly by the bloc’s arms embargo against Myanmar, the Middle Eastern kingdom has no such sanctions preventing the sale. Several countries in Europe and North America, including Canada, the C...