Five tanks arrived by sea on the naval base of Sattahip.
Ukraine has provided the supply to Thailand of the fifth batch of new main battle tanks (MBT) “hold-T” consisting of five machines built on the capacity of the GP Plant. Malyshev” (Kharkov) within the framework of the signed in 2011 contract with a volume of over $240 million
According to reports in the Thai social networks, fifth party “Strongholds” arrived recently from Ukraine by sea at the naval base “Sattahip”. In the defence sector, the party of armored vehicles were shipped to the Thai customer in March. Shipment next, the sixth, the party is preparing for June.
Morozov KMDB created them by order of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine tank MBT “Oplot” is adopted for the APU in may 2009, and in the Ukrainian army delivered the first 2 tanks.
The contract volume of more than $240 million for delivery in Thailand 49 Ukrainian tanks MBT “Oplot” signed in 2011, in April 2012 the state enterprise “Plant them.Malysheva” has started realization of the contract.
The costs of mastering of serial production of MBT “Hold”, according to the shipyard, $30 million First 5 trucks were shipped to the Thai customer in the beginning of 2014, 4 more in December 2015, 10 cars in the spring of 2016. The fourth party “Strongholds” was staged in Thailand in November 2016.
The completion of the contract on refined with Thai officials planned for the autumn of 2017.
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