2023-06-01 17:44:40
In 2013, Jordan bought 60 of these Gepards – armored vehicles armed with a radar-guided 35 mm twin-barrel gun mounted on a Leopard chassis – from the Netherlands, which had withdrawn them from service, for 21 million dollars. .
The Pentagon said on Wednesday it had awarded a $118 million (about 109.68 million euros) contract to Global Military Products Inc, of Tampa, Florida (southeast) to buy some of them from Jordan so that they can be delivered to Ukraine.
This company was the only one to respond to the call for tenders, the US Department of Defense said in a statement. The rehabilitation works will take place in Amman, Jordan, with an estimated completion date of May 30, 2024.
The funds come from the American procedure FMS (“Foreign Military Sales”) used for arms sales abroad.
Germany has already supplied 34 Gepards – a system popular, according to Berlin, by Ukrainian soldiers to combat drones used by the Russian army in its war in Ukraine. – and some 6,000 35mm shells to Ukraine.
The Belgian army owned 54 Gepards but withdrew them from service in 1993-1994. They were bought by OIP.
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