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Sweden to buy Lockheed Martin's HIMARS rocket artillery in €630 million deal
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from EuroNews [en] · Western Europe
Sweden's government has authorised its armed forces to buy the US-made HIMARS rocket artillery system from Lockheed Martin for around 7 billion Swedish crowns, almost €630 million, and has signed a parallel agreement with Finland to operate the two countries' rocket artillery together.
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