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An HEMTT pictured near a loading dock on 10 May 2021. (Photo: US Army National Guard/Capt Bryant Wine)
Tankers, recovery trucks and heavy equipment transporters will be delivered to FMS customer Egypt.
Egypt is receiving an undisclosed number of M978A4 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) tanker vehicles, plus M984A4 HEMTT recovery trucks and M1070A1 Heavy Equipment Transporters from Oshkosh Defense.
The US company is providing the vehicles under a $26.07 million FMS deal from US Army Contracting Command, the DoD announced on 26 May.
Work will be completed by 31 January 2023.
According to Shephard Defence Insight, vehicles in the HEMTT family are already in service with the Egyptian armed forces.
The HJ-10 is meant to be launched from the ZBD-10 armored vehicle.
Key point: Beijing has been training to invade Taiwan now for some time. It has also ramped up its miltiary modernization and its threatening rhetoric.
Months back, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced that it had conducted a test of a new anti-tank missile system as part of a so-called “Taiwan Drill.” The exercise, which was conducted in an island-landing exercise from the Bohai Bay earlier this year, was only disclosed on Tuesday and was possibly meant to serve as a message as much to Taiwan as to the United States.