Bangladesh would like to buy Russian-made 8x8 armoured vehicles personnel carrier BTR-80 1302134

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 07:09 PM
 
Bangladesh would like to buy Russian-made 8x8 armoured vehicles personnel carrier BTR-80.
Bangladesh is negotiating with Russia for the supply of 8x8 armored vehicles personnel carrier BTR-80 with a Russian credit of one billion dollars, announced in Bangalore, India, Alexander Fomin, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation (FSVTS).
     
Bangladesh is negotiating with Russia for the supply of 8x8 armored vehicles personnel carrier BTR-80 with a Russian credit of one billion dollars, announced in Bangalore, India, Alexander Fomin, Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation (FSVTS).
Russian-made BTR-80 8x8 armoured vehicle personnel carrier at Engineering Technologies 2012, defence exhibition in Moscow.
     

"We are in talks about which type of military equipment could be delivered under the contract. But Bangladesh is particularly interested about BTR-80 armoured vehicles personnel carrier," said Mister Fomine at the Air Show Aero India 2013 in Bangalore.

Moscow provide a credit of one billion dollars to Bangladesh for the purchase of Russian weapons and equipment in accordance with an agreement reached in January between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina.