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Lithuania freezes purchase of German G-36 rifles
BC, Vilnius, 07.07.2015.
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Print versionAs Germany has recently had doubts about the quality of the automatic assault rifle G-36, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence has frozen the purchase of these rifles, cites LETA/ELTA.
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Germany's Ministry of Defence admits that G-36 rifles produced by Heckler & Koch have "precision" problems due to temperature fluctuations. Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas told 15min.lt that new purchases of G-36 will be stopped for an indefinite period of time until the reliability of the rifle is confirmed. The Armed Forces were planned to have a new batch of G-36 rifles this year.
According to the Ministry of National Defence, Lithuania's Armed Forces so far have purchased G-36 rifles for EUR 12.8 million.
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