Rheinmetall is able to make the second call-off from the framework agreement for the supply of 155-millimeter artillery ammunition with the German Armed Forces army. The German Army has commissioned Rheinmetall to supply a total of several tens of thousands of L15 projectiles for the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as conventional 155-millimeter Assassai projectiles. The order value is in the low three-digit million range. Delivery is scheduled to take place in the course of 2024.
As recently as July 2023, Rheinmetall announced the concluded a new framework agreement with the German armed forces and extended an existing one in the artillery sector. The contracts cover the supply of several hundred thousand projectiles, fuses and propelling charges. The need to replenish the armed forces’ ammunition stocks is a result of the war in the Ukraine. In this context, Rheinmetall has already received several major orders in the field of artillery ammunition. https://militaeraktuell.at/luftstreitkraefte-ueben-im-donauraum-enns-und-murtal/ The recently concluded framework agreement with Rheinmetall for the supply of 155-millimetre artillery ammunition runs until 2029 and has a potential order volume of around 1.2 billion euros. The first orders for combat and training ammunition were already called off immediately after the contract was signed. The ammunition family that Rheinmetall offers in the artillery sector includes the DM121 explosive projectile, the DM125 smoke projectile and the DM702 SMArt search fuse ammunition (a development with Diehl Defense) as well as the RH68 training projectile and the RH1901 and RH1902 range-optimized smoke projectiles. The portfolio also includes the versatile 155-millimeter Assegai artillery ammunition family from Rheinmetall Denel Munition: insensitive ammunition (IM), conventional explosive rounds (High Explosive/HE) as well as smoke, illumination, infrared illumination and other rounds. The entire range of Assegai ammunition can be used over the full range of around 40 kilometers. The above-mentioned framework agreement introduces the proven Assegai ammunition family to the Bundeswehr.
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