The Arzamas Engineering plant is engaged in several export contracts on delivering armour, the official web-site of the Ruspromavto company reported on Wednesday [16 February].
It said that the plant would export 48 Vodnik cross-country vehicles to Uruguay, and that it had signed contracts with Sudan and Uganda on delivering 30 and 14 BTR-80 APCs respectively.
In addition to that, the Arzamas plant participates in a big-ticket tender on exporting APCs to Bangladesh, the plant's director general Valentin Kopalkin said at the ongoing IDEX 2005 arms show in Abu Dhabi.
"We are displaying the BTR-90 at the IDEX arms show, and we hope that the region will become interested in the new vehicle. The parties interested have already submitted requests for the vehicle, including those envisioning joint ventures," Kopalkin said.
He noted that the plant was actively upgrading BTR-60s, BTR-70s, and BRDM-2s, produced earlier. Many states operate several dozen thousands of such vehicles.
"We have conducted state tests and fielded modernized BTR-60s and BTR-70s. State tests of the BRDM-2 vehicle will be completed in late March, after which it will also be fielded," Kopalkin said.
"Foreign partners have started submitting requests on upgrading such vehicles. Negotiations with the Yemeni delegation will take place at the IDEX show. This country wants us to upgrade up to 100 BRDM-2s a year. The Yemeni army operates a total of about 2,000 vehicles of this type. The plant has just started promoting its BTR-60 and BTR-70 modernization programme in the international market," he said.
Traditional partners of the Arzamas engineering plant include such states as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sudan, and other countries.

Source: Interfax-AVN military news agency web site, Moscow
BBC Monitoring