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Azerbaijan expected to purchase from Ukraine MT-LBMS multipurpose tracked armored vehicles

07 January 2011 14:31 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA. Azerbaijan expressed its interest to the purchase of multipurpose tracked armored vehicle Mt-LBMS, Ukrainian military sources told APA.

â€œUkrSpetsEksportâ€, which is the Ukraine’s chief designated agent for exports and imports of military and dual-purpose commodities and service made presentation of some new equipments including this military vehicle for Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

MT-LBMS which is the renew variant of MT-LB vehicles is armed with PKT machine gun, Ukrainian double-barreled 30 mm caliber weapon, 30 mm caliber automatic grenade launcher. The military vehicle is also provided with 2 sets of 81mm caliber smoke grenade launcher, anti-tank missile.

MT-LBMS, which weights 12.5 tons, is considered effective for landing operations and navigation.