The Czech Company will supply to Iraq of more than 100 T-72 tanks and BMP

Alexander Kuranov. The Czech Company Excalibur Army will put Iraq more than 100 T-72 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles BVP-1, said last working day of the week Last news authorized company Andrey Cirtek.

"Our Company Excalibur Army signed a contract with partners in Iraq on delivery to the army of this state more than 100 units modernized T-72 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles BVP-1 ", - he said.

according to him, this delivery has already received the appropriate approval in the Czech ministries, which control the export of military equipment from Russia.

"for its part, the Iraqi staff conducted a technical inspection of tanks and IFVs have experienced them on the ground and legally accepted them," he added Cirtek.

at the end of last year in response to a request from the government of Kurdistan for help in the battle against radical Islamists in power in the Czech Republic free of charge sent to Iraq over five hundred tons of ammunition. At the same time, the Czech company has initiated conversations with Iraqi partners on the supply of heavy equipment. The first result is now carried out by the contract organization Excalibur Army.

earlier this month Excalibur Army with the help of the world's largest transport aircraft An-225 "Mriya" 3 flight ferried 16 modernized T-72A in Nigeria to support the struggle of the authorities of that state with the radicals of the movement Boko Haram.

Answering the question Last news about the life of the tanks, charged the Ministry of defence of Hungary and purchased by the company in the last month of summer last year, about which the European media many times have reported that they seem to be posed army of Ukraine, Andriy Cirtek said that these tanks stored on the company and most of them are subject to serious restoration. Cirtek noticed that the process from procurement to sales after the modernization process takes several years.


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