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Russia Tests New Amphibious Armored Vehicle
A new amphibious armored personnel carrier (APC), the BTR-82AM, is undergoing a series of trials at the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s naval infantry facility in Sevastopol, fleet spokesman Capt. 1St Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev said on Thursday. During the trials, the BTR-82AM, which is due to replace the military’s workhorse, the BTR-80, will cover “dozens of [...]
Patria Delivers Next Generation Armoured Wheeled Vehicles to Sweden
Patria delivered the first Patria AMV armoured wheeled vehicles to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). This was the first delivery of altogether 113 Patria AMV armoured wheeled vehicles to the Swedish Defence Forces, based on the agreement signed with FMV in 2010. The total value of the contract is approximately EUR 250 million. “The [...]
Iraq Accuses Ukraine of Selling Inferior Armored Vehicles
A senior Iraqi lawmaker on Thursday accused Ukraine of delivering low-quality armored personnel carriers and breaching the delivery terms of a contract signed in 2009. “A probe into Ukrainian arms deliveries to Iraq revealed corruption with regard to Part 3 of the contract, concerning the sale of 420 armored personnel carriers, of which only about [...]
Saudi Arabia mulls German tank deal: report
Saudi Arabia is planning to buy 30 German Dingo 2 armored vehicles worth about 100 million euros, Bild am Sonntag reported in its Sunday edition. Quoting sources close to the talks on a deal, the paper said Riyadh could eventually purchase up to 100 of the mine resistant, ambush protected Dingos. The Dingo 2 is [...]
Saudi Arabia Keen to Buy German Armored Vehicles
Saudi Arabia has officially asked about purchasing several hundred Germany armored fighting vehicles, the magazine Spiegel reports. The inquiry was discussed at a secret meeting of the German Federal Security Council. The Federal Security Council considered the transaction on Monday, according to Spiegel. A decision has been postponed until the coming year. The council is [...]
Algeria eyes 1,200 armoured vehicles from Germany: report
A subsidiary of Germany’s Rheinmetall, a specialist maker of automotive parts and defence equipment, intends to produce up to 1,200 Fuch-type armoured vehicles for Algeria, Der Spiegel said Sunday. According to Monday’s edition of the weekly, which quoted government sources, the German government believes that the Rheinmetall subsidiary will produce in Algeria over the next [...]
Serbia wants to sell military equipment to Pakistan
Serbia wants to conclude an agreement with Pakistan that would enable the export of its military equipment to the Asian country, Defence Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Monday. “What we can offer and what they are interested in are armored vehicles, large caliber ammunition, assault rifles and night-vision equipment,” Vucic said after the meeting with his [...]
China Touts Amphibious Capabilities
After long-distance maneuvering, hundreds of combat vehicles of an amphibious mechanized division under the Nanjing Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reached a beach for maritime assault training in mid-August 2012. The PLA started to organize and establish its new-type amphibious mechanized troops in 1999. The division has had two [...]
Russian Army to Switch to Wheeled Armored Vehicles
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to equip the Ground Forces mostly with wheeled rather than tracked armored vehicles, GF commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin said on Monday. “The Defense Ministry has decided to replace the majority of tracked armored vehicles with wheeled vehicles,” Chirkin said. “We will soon start R&D work on the development [...]
