Russia Places Ban On Military Deals With US, Reacts To Sanctions, Others

Russia says it will no longer sell some military equipments to the United States. Especially, Russian-made rocket engines

The Head of the country’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin had made this announcement on Thursday via state television, bringing to an end a decades-long relationship between the two countries in the rocket market.

“Today we have made a decision to halt the deliveries of rocket engines produced by NPO Energomash to the United States,” Rogozin said, according to the Russian news site TASS.

“Let me remind you that these deliveries had been quite intensive somewhere since the mid-1990s.”

TASS reported that the ban will apply to RD-180 engines that power US-based United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V rockets.

However, ULA’s CEO Tory Bruno said on. Twitter that ULA has already taken delivery of the RD-180s it needs in the near term.