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| Monday, February
25, 2013, 11:19 AM |
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| Libya
has taken delivery of 49 NIMR 4x4 light tactical armoured vehicles from
Jordan. |
Libya
has taken delivery of 49 NIMR
armoured support vehicles from Jordan. Some 120 of the UAE-designed and
built NIMRs, in two variants, have already been in service with the Libyan
army, reports Libya Herald. |
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Currently 120 NIMR
4x4 light tactical armoured vehicles are in service with the Libyan army.
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The spokesman for the Libyan
General Staff. Ali Shiekhi was quoted by Chinese news agency Xinhua
today as saying that the new NIMRs had been supplied as a result of
an agreement made last year, between the Ministry of Defence and Jordan.
The new armoured vehicles are to be deployed immediately on border patrol
duties.
More than 500 NIMRs
have been sold, mostly in Jordan, Lebanon, Libya and the UAE, and the
firm says that it has a further 1,800 orders.
Nimr supplies the UAE Armed Forces and the Algerian Armed Forces with
their maiden 4x4 vehicles. "We have 2,000 orders for the 4x4 vehicles
and earlier signed a contract with the Algerian government to build
Nimr vehicles there," said Mr Al Mazroui, general manager of Nimr
Automotive.
According to Mr Al Mazroui
the vehicles have a flexibility of use and can work in different environments
to the ones present in the UAE. "Over the next 18 months we will
be presenting the vehicles in Brazil, Turkey, all the GCC countries
and the Middle East to present the vehicles' performance on their own
terrain," he said.
At IDEX 2013, defence exhibition in Abu Dhabi, Nimr Automotive unveils
the first entirely Arab-built six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier.
The Nimr 6x6 APC was designed and manufactured in the UAE by Emirati
engineers over 18 months.
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