Despite the new Peruvian administrations concerns about a regional arms race, during the 1990s Peru spent US $ 1.8 billion in buying military equipment. The country possesses the regions most advanced air-to-air missile, the R-77 Adder. In addition, FACh authorities have noted in the past how Chiles northern neighbor acquired from Belarus a fleet of 20 Russian-made MIG- 29 fighter jets, far superior to Chiles outdated fleet.