A few days after Austria Germany has now also approved the procurement of the Skyranger anti-aircraft turret from Rheinmetall Air Defense has been finalized. The turret is to be mounted on the Boxer, the Bundeswehr With the new “anti-aircraft tanks”, the Bundeswehr is closing a capability gap in the area of mobile defense against unmanned aircraft systems (Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System, C-UAS).
A contract to this effect was signed with Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH at the Bundeswehr Procurement Office on Tuesday. The budget committee of the German Bundestag had approved the project the previous week. https://militaeraktuell.at/enforce-tac-ceotronics-zeigt-produktneuheiten/ The contract that has now been concluded provides for the procurement of a prototype and 18 series vehicles of the new anti-aircraft tank. Delivery of the prototype is scheduled for the end of 2024. The series production vehicles are expected from the beginning of 2026 following successful qualification. There is also an option for the procurement of 30 additional systems. The subsystem of the air defence system for close and short-range protection will initially be equipped with a 30 millimetre caliber automatic cannon and the Stinger guided missile. A further guided missile is to be added at a later date in order to strengthen the defensive capability against attacks from the air. The new tank is designed in such a way that it can be easily combined with existing air defense components and fully integrated into their units.
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