Meanwhile, the Russia-Egypt military-technical cooperation, which was of great extent in the 1960s, was minimized in 1972. Afterwards, the military equipment supplies were very small and rare. So, in 1999-2000, Cairo received 20 Mi-17-1V and several Mi-172 helicopters. Back then, Russia and Egypt also signed a $150-million contract on modernizing 50 S-125 ‘Pechora’ air defense systems, supplied to Egypt back in the Soviet times. In 2005, they signed a small contract on supplying four ‘Tor-M1’ complexes to Egypt. Same year, they signed an agreement on modernizing old Soviet-built ‘Kvadrat’ anti-aircraft missile complexes. Apparently, the contract’s first stage was a trade-in, that is the direct supply of a small party of ‘Buk-M1-2’ complexes to replace old ‘Kvadrat’s. In mid-2007, Russia and Egypt signed a contract on supplying ZSU-23-4-M4 ‘Shilka-Strelets’ anti-aircraft self-propelled mounts.
