Kuwait Land Forces, plans to buy tracked and 8x8 IFVsnote

The Kuwaiti Defence Ministry is going ahead with a project to buy tracked and 8x8 wheeled armored vehicles in favor of the Kuwaiti Land Forces (KLF). This comes as Kuwaiti Defence Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah prefers starting contacts on the project now instead of waiting until the end of the year. The following 410-word report sheds light on the subject and tells how many tracked and wheeled vehicles the Ministry intends to buy and what about their plans in this regard. [Partly reproduced in TR Weekly Issue No 23/35 – August 26, 2016]