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Germany approves major weapons deal for Arab countries .
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Defence & Security News - Germany |
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| Friday, October 3, 2014 03:31 PM | |||
| Germany approves major weapons deal for Arab countries | |||
Germany
has approved deliveries of armored vehicles, grenade launchers and machine
guns to several Arab countries, according to a report in the Sueddeutsche
Zeitung newspaper. The report yesterday, October 2nd, stated that weapons
are to be delivered to countries including the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Jordan, Oman and Kuwait.
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 32 Krauss-Maffei Wegmann's Fennek light armored reconnaissance vehicles will be provided to Qatari Armed Forces |
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The
major arms that are in the export list include 13 Dingo
armored personnel carriers and 32 Fennek light armored reconnaissance
vehicles for the Qatar. The United Arab Emirates will receive 4 Wisent
(Bison) 8x8 armored transport vehicles, more than 3,000 assault rifles,
20,000 mortar ammunition and numerous artillery shells.
Saudi
Arabia gets grenade launcher systems, remote controlled weapon stations
and reconnaissance and observation systems. Jordan will get 1,027 automatic
machine guns and assault rifles. Kuwait and Oman will receive grenades,
machine guns and automatic rifles for testing. The total ammount of the
deal is still unknown. |
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