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The deputy head of "Rosoboronexport" Igor Sevastyanov said that a contract to upgrade 135 vehicles BMP-3 is almost as planned. Slightly less than half of the machines already delivered to the customer.
ABU DHABI, February 24 - RIA Novosti . Agreement for the modernization of 135 BMP-3, set the UAE, to be completed in the summer of 2015, told reporters on Tuesday the deputy head of "Rosoboronexport" Igor Sevastyanov.
"The contract for the modernization of 135 vehicles BMP-3 is almost as planned ... A little less than half of the machines already delivered to the customer. We expect to complete the entire job in the summer of 2015," - said Sevastyanov at an arms fair IDEX-2015 in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
Agreement on the $ 74 million the parties signed in February 2011, also in the exhibition IDEX.
BMP-3 (infantry fighting vehicle, 3) - Soviet and Russian military armored tracked vehicle designed to transport personnel to the front edge, increasing its mobility, armament and protection on the battlefield in the conditions of use of nuclear weapons and joint action with tanks in combat .
Developed Kurgan Special Design Bureau of Machine Building, is made on the "Kurganmashzavod." Was first publicly demonstrated in 1990 at a parade in honor of the 45th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. China in 1997 acquired the license to manufacture the crew compartment of the BMP-3, which were subsequently armed with Chinese infantry fighting vehicles Type 97.
ABU DHABI, February 24 - RIA Novosti . Agreement for the modernization of 135 BMP-3, set the UAE, to be completed in the summer of 2015, told reporters on Tuesday the deputy head of "Rosoboronexport" Igor Sevastyanov.
"The contract for the modernization of 135 vehicles BMP-3 is almost as planned ... A little less than half of the machines already delivered to the customer. We expect to complete the entire job in the summer of 2015," - said Sevastyanov at an arms fair IDEX-2015 in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
Agreement on the $ 74 million the parties signed in February 2011, also in the exhibition IDEX.
BMP-3 (infantry fighting vehicle, 3) - Soviet and Russian military armored tracked vehicle designed to transport personnel to the front edge, increasing its mobility, armament and protection on the battlefield in the conditions of use of nuclear weapons and joint action with tanks in combat .
Developed Kurgan Special Design Bureau of Machine Building, is made on the "Kurganmashzavod." Was first publicly demonstrated in 1990 at a parade in honor of the 45th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. China in 1997 acquired the license to manufacture the crew compartment of the BMP-3, which were subsequently armed with Chinese infantry fighting vehicles Type 97.
