The Bundeswehr has with Rheinmetall artillery ammunition from the framework agreement. The company has been commissioned to supply a total of several tens of thousands of different types of projectiles for the Ukrainian armed forces. The order is worth a three-digit million euro sum. Delivery is scheduled for the course of 2025.
The new call-off continues the series of artillery ammunition orders previously placed by the Bundeswehr for the Ukrainian and German armed forces. In July 2023, Rheinmetall concluded a new framework agreement with the Bundeswehr in the artillery sector. It covers the delivery of several hundred thousand projectiles, fuses and propelling charges. The framework agreement runs until 2029 and has a potential gross order volume of around 1.2 billion euros.
The need to replenish the armed forces’ ammunition stores is a result of the war in the Ukraine. In this context, Rheinmetall has received several major orders for artillery ammunition. https://militaeraktuell.at/dann-sind-wir-in-europa-ganz-vorne-dabei/ Rheinmetall’s artillery ammunition family includes the DM121 high-explosive projectile, the DM125 smoke projectile and the DM702 SMArt search-fuse ammunition (a development with Diehl Defence) 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 high-explosive (HE) rounds as well as smoke, illumination, infrared illumination and other projectiles. 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. Rheinmetall also offers the Rheinmetall Expal Munitions artillery family, including the 155-millimeter M107 and 155-millimeter Extended Range.
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