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Estonia joins the development programme for sustained army mobility enhancement together with Finland and Latvia

puolustusministeriö
Publication date 6.4.2020 15.55 | Published in English on 6.4.2020 at 16.00
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Earlier this year, on 29 January 2020, Finland and Latvia signed a Technical Arrangement on launching a development programme for sustained army mobility enhancement. Finland's Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen and Latvia's Minister of Defence Artis Pabriks signed the document for the participating nations. Today, also Estonia joins the programme as Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defence, Kristjan Prikk signed the document.

"It is important, that we continue defence cooperation also during these times of epidemic and crisis. We are very pleased that Estonia is now also part of this development programme", says Jukka Juusti, Permanent Secretary of The Finnish Ministry of Defence.

The cooperation programme aims to develop a common armoured wheeled vehicle system. In case this development leads to vehicle system procurement in the future, the resulting common system enhances mobility, cost-efficiency, interoperability and security of supply of the armies of the participating nations.

With the Letter of Intent signed in December 2019, Estonia together with Latvia and Finland has shown interests for acquiring armoured vehicles for their national armed forces. Based on national and multinational tests and evaluations, the vehicle chassis platform chosen for the development in-progress is a Finnish-made Patria 6x6 armoured wheeled vehicle chassis platform that meets the set capability requirements.

For further information on the programme, please contact, at the Ministry of Defence, Ministerial Advisor Jouko Tuloisela, tel. +358 295 140 412, and Head of Materiel Unit, Governmental Councellor Tarja Jaakkola, tel. +358 295 140 410, and at the Army Command, Inspector of the Infantry, Colonel Rainer Peltoniemi, tel. +358 299 800 (FDF switchboard).

 
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