TBILISI (Sputnik) – France will begin delivering air defense systems to Georgia in January 2017, Georgian Armed Forces General Staff head Vakhtang Kapanadze said Wednesday.
In 2015, Georgia singed two agreements with France on the purchase of air defense systems.
“Deliveries will be made gradually, I can’t give an exact date. Yes, it’s planned to start in January 2017, but a part may be delivered earlier, another part later. There is no such thing as [immediately] delivering one type of equipment and that’s it. Some part we will receive, but for another part we’ll need to prepare a place,” Kapanadze told RIA Novosti.
Kapanadze said that French officers will arrive in Georgia in 2016 to train Georgian troops on using the new systems.