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ammunition manufacturer Mecar, Petit-Roeulx-lez-Nivelles, advanced to the Belgian army more than two hundred shells to allow one of its units of s’ target practice with a gun caliber of 90 mm – a weapon rejected by the current Defence Minister Pieter De Crem, when he took office in 2007 – to participate next year in a European mission,- have we learned Tuesday from sources.
first shooting will take place in October during a training period the median brigade camp Bergen-Hohne (Germany), to describe a squadron Libération/5ème battalion line, a “middle” unit stationed Bourg-Leopold (Limburg), before participating in the second half of 2014 a battle group (BG) European -. English “EU Battle Group” (EUBG)
Mecar has, according to an expert on the issue , agreed to provide 242 rounds of the year – the minimum sufficient – to allow gunners of this unit to make their first real shots with the 90 mm gun that fits their armored 6×6 “Armoured Infantry Vehicles” wheels (AIV).
“We have agreed to advance the deliveries,” said Mecar the Belga agency.
The actual ammunition should only happen next year, as a result of an order passed last July by Mr De Crem.
The Verhofstadt government chose in January 2006 to buy the Swiss company Mowag, a subsidiary of the U.S. company General Dynamics, 200 AIV Piranha type III in seven variants, including eighteen copies – possibly followed by 22 others, optional – equipped with a turret-type LCTS90 with a 90 mm gun and built by Cockerill Maintenance and Engineering (CMI) .
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