Colombia's military will purchase roughly US$4 billion in military hardware including aircrafts, armored vehicles and small arms to upgrade and modernize its armed forces, El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The upgrade will modernize several branches of the Colombian armed forces by supplying new military hardware, which will include naval vessels and submarines from France and Germany, and 25 training aircraft to be assembled in Colombia, said Vice Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón.
By the end of the year the armed forces will receive 15 U.S. manufactured Black Hawk helicopters and five Russian-made MI-17 helicopters, and 20 105-mm artillery canons, Pinzón said.
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