Soviet arms deal pledged an army of ten thousand with jets and armor

Evidence

According to Osman, the accord involved the USSR supporting an army of ten thousand men, with twenty jetfighters and two other planes, one hundred armored vehicles, cannons, and so on, which would cost 200 million Somali shillings. In addition to this grant, they offered a credit of 40 million shillings. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 660

Categorization

• QUESTION: The figures come from Osman’s account; worth verifying against Soviet and other Western records of the 1963 military pact.