Unnamed NATO buyer orders Rheinmetall’s 155mm artillery ammunition

German arms producer Rheinmetall introduced simply this week {that a} NATO buyer has simply positioned an order with the Group’s South African subsidiary Rheinmetall Denel Munition to provide 155mm ammunition from its tried-and-tested Assegai product line.

Based on a press launch from Rheinmetall, awarded in July, the contract is value a determine within the upper-two-digit million-euro vary.

Supply will happen over the following two years.

The brand new order encompasses the whole 155mm Assegai ammunition system, together with fuses, totally different projectile sorts akin to high-explosive service rounds, and Assegai artillery propelling expenses. The Assegai household of artillery ammunition will be fired from any NATO STANAG-compatible artillery system, together with the PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer.

“We’re recognized worldwide for our long-range Assegai oblique hearth expertise and are happy to have the ability to welcome a brand new companion nation to the Assegai household”, says Jan-Patrick Helmsen, managing director of Rheinmetall Denel Munition.

“As a programs maker, we work continuously to enhance our cutting-edge applied sciences in order that we will present our prospects’ troopers with the best-possible, most dependable resolution.”

Again in 2019, Rheinmetall succeeded in setting a brand new most vary report in South Africa with the Assegai household and different Group merchandise like the brand new Topcharge. Because of the Assegai system method – from fuse to projectile to propelling expenses – lengthy ranges had been attained with varied artillery programs. A non-NATO 155mm artillery gun with 52 calibre lengths and a 25-litre propelling cost chamber achieved a report vary of 76 kilometres.

Rheinmetall Denel Munition is already engaged on different future artillery applied sciences. For instance, the rocket motor in standard 155mm Assegai projectiles is being improved. Along with this, new growth is on the way in which that can increase the utmost vary to over 155 kilometers.