The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has Rheinmetall to supply additional 35-millimeter ammunition for the Gepard anti-aircraft gun tank. The new order comprises 180,000 rounds of HEI-T ammunition (High Explosive Incendiary with Tracer). The order value is in the high double-digit million euro range. The order is being financed by Germany. In February 2023, Rheinmetall already received Rheinmetall received an order to supply 300,000 rounds of Gepard ammunition to Ukraine.
The ordered ammunition can be used to effectively engage various airborne targets such as drones. It will be produced at Rheinmetall’s Unterlüß site in Lower Saxony. Due to the increased demand for 35-millimetre ammunition, the production line there was rebuilt at great expense in a very short space of time in spring 2023.
The Federal Republic of Germany has granted Ukraine (-> current news from the Ukraine war) to date, a total of 55 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks have been handed over by the Bundeswehr had been decommissioned by the Bundeswehr. They have been proving their worth in air defense there for more than two years.
Rheinmetall also supplied the attacked country with various state-of-the-art air defense systems such as Skynex with the programmable Ahead airburst ammunition (-> How does the Ahead ammunition work?).
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