Slovenia’s defense minister Matej Tonin said that the signing ceremony brought the country where it should have been 15 years ago. “Slovenia is getting top-quality vehicles that will be intended for national and collective defense within NATO,” the minister said.
The 343 million contract will include armament, logistics services and project management costs.
As we wrote earlier, Slovenia’s purchase of the 8×8 combat vehicles has been delayed for a long time, preventing the country’s armed forces from establishing a medium-sized battalion battlegroup (SrBBSK), which has been deemed an essential capacity for further development and improvement of the state of readiness of the military.
The Boxer IFV is delivered by the ARTEC consortium, which is composed of German military vehicle specialists Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall. The vehicle is available in a number of variants thanks to its modular architecture. To date, some 1,500 vehicles in twenty different versions have been ordered by Australia and four NATO countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and the United Kingdom. Australia, a close partner of NATO, has already taken delivery of a first shipment of 25 Boxer vehicles.
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