This is going to be one of many Libyan arms deals for 2007. Gadaffi is going to get his hands on as much military equipment he can before he has to arrest a load of East Europeans and make them a scapegoat for a prior state screw up.
So far its been tactical BMS, CNR and battlefield Integration C2. Now missiles. The big sales are yet to come though. It appears that Libya is a very open field so sales should indicate quality over political weight. Libyan buys should be a good indicator of performance of equipment and sales teams. We wait and see with great interest.
France to Supply Libya with European Weapons
(Source: Deutsche Welle German radio; ; issued Aug. 1, 2007)
Negotiations over French arms supplies played a role in the release of the Bulgarian medics held in Libya. Germany said Wednesday that it will continue to stay out of business with the African nation.
France has agreed to sell Libya anti-tank missiles as part of the military agreement reached last week by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
“We are going to buy [Milan anti-tank missiles worth up to] 100 million euros in France,” Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was quoted as saying in an interview published in Thursday’s French daily Le Monde. “There’s also a project for a weapons factory.”
A [tripod]-mounted anti-tank weapon, the Milan is built by a subsidiary of Europe’s joint EADS defense and aerospace company.
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