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Ukraine will receive another tranche of aid from Belgium. The government of a friendly country is handing over three hundred Iveco LMV Lynx (Lynx) armored vehicles and deminers to the Armed Forces. Military equipment is transferred to Kyiv free of charge.
The initiative belongs to the joint coalition BELEUX of the Netherlands and Belgium. Equipment worth 412 million euros will soon appear in Ukraine.
The Iveco armored car appeared in 2001. The vehicle is armored against small arms and mine, projectile or bomb fragments. Under the hood of the car is an IVECO F1D turbodiesel engine with 185 hp, which works in tandem with a 6-speed automatic gearbox.
The armored car is quite common in Europe. It is known that even the occupiers have such cars, but they call it "Lynx". There, Lynx/Rys was produced by the MWPS JV, formed by the Russian division of Iveco and the Oboronserwis concern. Before the start of the war, about 425 Lynx/Rys machines were produced and supplied to the Russian armed forces.
The Netherlands and Belgium also plan to purchase armored sanitary vehicles, which will be part of the second tranche of aid to Ukraine.
