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March 30, 2014

Finland says no to acquisition of Army Tactical Missile System (ATacMS) from United States

Budgetary reasons and high unit price for a relatively old system cited

Wikipedia Photo : Army Tactical Missile System (ATacMS)

Finland has announced that it will not carry out the planned acquisition of tactical missiles from the United States for roughly one hundred million euros. Manufactured by Lockheed Martin, the army tactical missile system (ATacMS) missiles are surface-to-surface missiles fired from launchers.

The missiles have a range of up to 300 kilometres.

However the stinger missile deal is likely to go thru

http://www.asiandefencenews.com/2014/01/finland-to-splurge-90-million-on-us.html

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