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Article: French Defense Ministry to reinforce its Army with more armored vehicles
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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French Defense Ministry to reinforce its Army with more armored
vehicles
PARIS, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- The French Army will buy 332 more
armored vehicles for infantry combat (VBCI) to bring the total
ordered number to 630, Defense Minister Herve Morin announced
Wednesday.
The General Delegation for Armaments has notified the relevant
manufacturers of the new order, including companies like Nexter
System and Renault Trucks Defense, Morin said in a statement, adding
that the new purchase was in line with the white paper on defense
for 2009-2014.
The Defense Ministry will cost 2.86 billion euros to develop the
whole VBCI program, which was launched in 2000 to replace the AMX-
10P fighting ...