title: Slovakia to build army personnel carriers with Finland's Patria
text: BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia s government approved plans on Wednesday to build military armored vehicles with the Finnish defense industry company Patria to replace the NATO member s outdated armored personnel carriers, the defense minister said. State-owned defense company Konstrukta Defence will work with Patria, owned by the Finnish government and Norwegian firm Kongsberg Defence&Aerospace, to build 81 eight-wheeled armored personal carriers with an estimated value of 417 million euros that will be bought by the Slovak army, Defence Minister Peter Gajdos told reporters. 