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Indonesia and Belarus to produce remote controlled weapons station for Anoa armoured vehicle 2003134.
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 11:53 AM | |||
| Indonesia and Belarus to produce remote controlled weapons station for Anoa armoured vehicle. | |||
Indonesia
and Belarus have agreed to jointly produce remote controlled weapons station
for Anoa armored vehicles, produced by the military and defense equipment
company PT Pindad, according to Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro.
The minister said a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the cooperation
was signed by Chairman of Belarus' Military Industry Committee Sergei
Gurulev and him at Merdeka Palace here on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. |
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 Anoa 6x6 armoured vehicle personnel carrier of Indonesian army. |
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| "We have signed the memorandum of understanding on the joint production of remote weapon system to be used by Anoa armored vehicles of PT Pindad," Purnomo said. According to him, Indonesia has been buying such weapons from Belarus but with the cooperation, the two countries would jointly produce them. "Thus, the added value for us is that we can open job opportunities and joint investment," the defense minister noted. Besides the joint production of the remote weapon control system, the cooperation in defense industry between the two countries will continue to be stepped up to produce tanks transporting vehicles. Purnomo noted that Belarus has a long tradition in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and always has been in the centre of attention for foreign researches, universities and companies. He
said the country was one of the most technologically advanced republics
of the former Soviet Union whose technology was used to design products
for both civil and military applications. |
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