Singapore buys 50 tanks Merkava Mk 4
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Singapore has concluded with Israel contract to buy 50 tanks Merkava Mk 4 new buildings totaling approximately $ 500 million, according to a blog Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies with reference to the resource IntelligenceOnline.com .



In early June of this year in the Israeli newspaper "Yediot Ahronot", it was reported that the Israeli Ministry of Defense Export Agency signed the first export contract for the supply tank Merkava Mk 4. Then the customer is not named, but noted that this country is bound by "long-term relationships with Israel security, "and the contract amount to several hundred million dollars.

Merkava tanks series produces Israeli State tank factory in Tel Hashomer, since 1979. Despite interest from potential foreign customers, this technique has never exported. This prevented the low production rate of tanks, their high price, as well as restrictions on the export from the United States, supplying a significant portion of system and component tanks and partially funding program for their production, and the Ministry of Defense of Israel itself. Recently, guided mainly economic component, the Israeli defense ministry gave the green light to export Merkava Mk 4.

It should be noted that since 2007, Singapore has acquired from the German Bundeswehr 182 tanks Leopard 2A4, some of which are planned to be disassembled into parts and converted into a special machine. We are currently performing their modernization program.

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