Marauders Of Imangali Tasmagambetov: Case Study
"Marauders" of Imangali Tasmagambetov
Another scandal is brewing in the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan; current Defense Minister Imangali Tasmagambetov has the potential to be dragged in it. It is about equipping the Kazakhstan army with new armored personnel carriers, the acquisition of which was budgeted for 2015. So, one of the senior management of the military department lobbied on this issue the interests of the South African Paramount Group Corporation in order to purchase their armored Marauder. They are not trying to advertise much the fact that such an acquisition will not improve, as much as throw back, the country's defense.
If you delve into the Internet, you can find a lot of commercials, where armored Marauder (in Russian literally …show more content…
Well, at least because it belongs to another type of military equipment. Even a layman in technical matters can understand that four-wheel vehicle, weighing 10 tons, cannot compete on the cross-country ability with almost the same weight, but the eight-wheeled vehicle. Also firepower of armored vehicle with a machine gun of 12.7 or 14.5 millimeters caliber loses to the automatic 30-millimeter cannon. You can compare more: Marauder armored car is higher by 30 centimeters than the same outdated BTR-80. This means that the South African is more noticeable on the battlefield, it is difficult to disguise and the defeated area for enemy is higher. Marauder has shown itself not as sniper on the trial for shooting from the machine gun mounted on the roof: only six bullets among 50 shots hit the mark at a distance of a kilometer on the target size of 3 by 3 …show more content…
As we found out, lobbying for this deal is done by the Commander of Land Forces of Kazakhstan Lieutenant-General Murat Maikeev
The person is quite well-known for journalists of our site: he initiated the modernization of the BTR- 80 in the zero years, after which none of these combat vehicles could not move without the help of tow. The same Maikeev equipped Kazakh paratroopers with usual hunting collimator sights of Belarusian production, modernized the old parachutes, after that several of his subordinates, including the deputy, went to prison bunks, and he stayed away ... He was very friendly with the recently sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for corruption former director of Kazakhstan frontier Lieutenant General Nurlan
Another scandal is brewing in the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan; current Defense Minister Imangali Tasmagambetov has the potential to be dragged in it. It is about equipping the Kazakhstan army with new armored personnel carriers, the acquisition of which was budgeted for 2015. So, one of the senior management of the military department lobbied on this issue the interests of the South African Paramount Group Corporation in order to purchase their armored Marauder. They are not trying to advertise much the fact that such an acquisition will not improve, as much as throw back, the country's defense.
If you delve into the Internet, you can find a lot of commercials, where armored Marauder (in Russian literally …show more content…
Well, at least because it belongs to another type of military equipment. Even a layman in technical matters can understand that four-wheel vehicle, weighing 10 tons, cannot compete on the cross-country ability with almost the same weight, but the eight-wheeled vehicle. Also firepower of armored vehicle with a machine gun of 12.7 or 14.5 millimeters caliber loses to the automatic 30-millimeter cannon. You can compare more: Marauder armored car is higher by 30 centimeters than the same outdated BTR-80. This means that the South African is more noticeable on the battlefield, it is difficult to disguise and the defeated area for enemy is higher. Marauder has shown itself not as sniper on the trial for shooting from the machine gun mounted on the roof: only six bullets among 50 shots hit the mark at a distance of a kilometer on the target size of 3 by 3 …show more content…
As we found out, lobbying for this deal is done by the Commander of Land Forces of Kazakhstan Lieutenant-General Murat Maikeev
The person is quite well-known for journalists of our site: he initiated the modernization of the BTR- 80 in the zero years, after which none of these combat vehicles could not move without the help of tow. The same Maikeev equipped Kazakh paratroopers with usual hunting collimator sights of Belarusian production, modernized the old parachutes, after that several of his subordinates, including the deputy, went to prison bunks, and he stayed away ... He was very friendly with the recently sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for corruption former director of Kazakhstan frontier Lieutenant General Nurlan