Saxon APCs From U.K. Being Modified
June 23 2015
The Ukrainian army has received the last 55 of 75 Saxon armored personnel carriers being supplied by the U.K., reports Interfax-AVN (Russia).
Twenty of the vehicles will be converted for frontline medical evacuation missions, while the balance will be modified for command-and-control duties, said Yury Biryukov, a presidential advisor.
The final cost for the vehicles came to about 51,000 pounds (US$81,000) per vehicle, he said in a Facebook post.
The vehicles were sent to...
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