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A week after Joseph Borrell, the European Union's foreign minister, called for an arms embargo on Israel because of the war in Gaza, a huge deal for Elbit on a European country.
Elbit won a $300 million contract to supply systems for armored vehicles to a country in the west of the continent.
The contract includes weapons, patrol, driving and situational awareness systems for about 230 armored vehicles.
The contract will be executed over a period of 6 years, and includes custom design, manufacturing, maintenance for the life of the product, and full in-country product support.
A Patria APC that is in use in Europe. The contract includes weapons, patrol, driving and situational awareness systems for about 230 armored vehicles/Patria
These are systems similar to those supplied by Elbit for the IDF's Merkava tanks and armored personnel carriers and the IDF that operate in the Gaza Strip and gain important operational experience with them.
Elbit does not specify the name of the country, but there are not many countries on the continent today with armored vehicle fleets on such a scale, especially Sweden, the Czech Republic and Germany, most of which are equipped with the armed Swedish CV90 APC or the Finnish Patria wheeled APC.
Bezalel (Butsi) Machlis, President and CEO of Elbit Systems: "This contract emphasizes the high level of customer satisfaction with our systems and solutions that are already in use.
It also strengthens Elbit Systems' leadership in the armored vehicle market, which is based on our commitment to providing modern solutions that meet our customers' needs."
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