Estonian approves purchase of infantry battle vehicles

The Baltic Times ^ | 2014-11-27

[wetphoenix]

The Estonian government approved on Thursday of the plan to buy infantry battle vehicles CV90 and support vehicles from the Netherlands and gave Defence Minister Sven Mikser powers to sign the purchase contract with the Netherlands, Postimees Online reports.

The procurement contract will be concluded on December 9 in Holland. Its cost was not yet revealed.

Estonia will acquire from the Netherlands 44 infantry battle machines CV90 and non-armed support vehicles based on the tanks Leopard 1 and jointly with the Netherlands equipment, spare parts, tools, documentation and ammunition for the vehicles.

Estonian Defence Minister Sven Mikser said that this will be the biggest defence procurement for Estonia in all times. "Infantry battle vehicles will bring the fighting capability of the Estonian Defence Forces to a new level," he said. "Along with the self-propelled artillery and the acquisition of anti-tank missile systems Javelin that was recently completed, it is one of the three main priorities of the state defence development plan."

The 44 battle machines will be used by the Scoutsbattalion unit of professional military.

The CV90s will reach Estonia gradually in 2016-2018. The vehicles are used but relatively new and pass regular maintenance in Holland. The Dutch military will also provide training.

Mikser and the Defence Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert signed the Agreement of Intent on the infantry battle vehicles CV90 to be acquired from the Netherlands in September.

[wetphoenix]

Have you witnessed one?

A story is loosely based on a PFM-1 mine which might distantly resemble a toy. These are small asymmetrically shaped for slow descent green plastic bomblets deployed in a cluster canisters by the fighter-bombers to Afghan-Pakistan border to make in harder for jihadis to smuggle stuff through the mountain passes.

If anything, it has a distinctive military look. It is nowhere near a ‘red plastic truck’ in shape.

[greedo]

No, I have not witnessed one.

I will believe the New York Times on this, not you, mr. troll.

While you are here though, tell us how Lavrentiy Beria did not actually kill chained prisoners with a flamethrower.

[wetphoenix]

Well, like if NYT never lies....:)
Keep trust them if so.
As for Beria I don’t know. From what we know about this personality he probably could do that you said for real.

[kearnyirish2]

I remember watching a women’s World Cup game (soccer), between two countries like Denmark and Sweden; unlike many of our players, they were all good-looking. Unfortunately, the game didn’t go to overtime...

[ansel12]

Thanks for posting those reminders of Russian brutality and atrocities as a part of their deliberate military style, our younger freepers may not know about them.

[ansel12]

More for the kids who don’t know Russia.

Use of chemical weapons
There have also been numerous reports of chemical weapons being used by Soviet forces in Afghanistan, often indiscriminately against civilians. A declassified CIA report from 1982 states that between 1979 and 1982 there were 43 separate chemical weapons attacks which caused more than 3000 deaths. By spring 1980, attacks with chemical weapons were reported in “all areas with concentrated resistance activity”.

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New evidence sent to Congress and the United Nations this week indicates that the use of the outlawed weapons against resistance forces in Laos, Kampuchea, and Afghanistan continued as recently as last month, despite Soviet denials.