Pakistan may buy 100 ukrainian tank "Oplot"

[sayareakd]

Pakistan may buy 100 ukrainian tank "Oplot"

Thu, 20.04.2017 14:35




Pakistan's ambassador Atar Abbas said that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan may purchase 100 ukrainian "Oplot" tanks.

"Today experts are holding testing and evaluation, there is an agreement on the purchase of the Ukrainian battle tank"Oplot". And in case of its signing Pakistan will purchase them at Kharkov plant more than a hundred units of this technique," - said ambassador.

According to him, the defense sector was one of the main areas of cooperation between Pakistan and Ukraine.
"This concerned procurement of heavy equipment and its maintenance in particular" the ambassador said.

According to him, mutual visits of the defense ministers of Pakistan and Ukraine were held recently.

"A few months ago an agreement was signed on the joint production of engines for the Al-Khalid tanks and military helicopters, all production will be carried out on Pakistani territory," he stressed.

http://arab.com.ua/en/pakistan-may-buy-100-ukrainian-tank-oplot

 

[sayareakd]

Looks like mighty Al Khalid junk is not good enough for Pakistan, they found out fast and are going for this.

 

[WARREN SS]

Looks like mighty Al Khalid junk is not good enough for Pakistan, they found out fast and are going for this.

Do we Not have t-90 M version similar to this

 

[Cutting Edge 2]

We are hearing about this since almost a decade. Pak was going to purchase 320 T-84s back in 2009. Then there where also some rumours that Oplot M failed in tests (2014-15) and now this news about PA buying 100.