[RwandaLibre] Ukroboronprom To Deliver 50 T-64 Tanks to DR Congo

 

Ukroboronprom To Deliver T-64 Tanks to DR Congo

By JAROSLAW ADAMOWSKI
Posted: Monday Feb 17, 2014


Ukraine's leading defense group, Ukroboronprom, announced it has
signed a contract to deliver 50 T-64BV-1 main battle tanks worth about
100 million hryvnia (US $11.5 million) to a foreign country that the
company did not identify. Russian news site Lenta.ru, however,
reported that the tanks will be delivered to the Democratic Republic
of Congo.

The signing of the contract marks an important step in state-run
Ukroboronprom's expansion into the world tank market, said Vadim
Fedosov, director of the company's armored vehicles, artillery,
automotive, engineering and special equipment division. Fedosov said
the deal is a strategic breakthrough for Ukroboronprom, and added that
the tank has never before been exported by Ukroboronprom.

The tank is an upgraded variant of the Soviet-designed T-64.

Fedosov said that the latest deal will allow the Ukroboronprom to
increase its workforce by 20 percent compared with a year earlier. The
manufacturer plans to modernize the tanks for the recipient at the
group's production facility in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Kiev-based Ukroboronprom was set up in 2010 with the aim to
consolidate Ukraine's defense industry. The group comprises about 130
companies.

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