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Rheinmetall is supplying 20 additional Marder IFV to Ukraine

Frag Out! Magazine — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:08:56 +0000

Rheinmetall has handed over 20 additional Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to the Ukrainian armed forces for their defence against the Russian aggressor. The delivery was completed at the end of the third quarter of 2024. This brings the total number of combat vehicles delivered directly to Ukraine or in the context of so-called ring exchanges (Ring¬tausch) to around 200.A three-digit number of these systems are Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles. In addition, Rheinmetall has provided Marder infantry fighting vehicles […]

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Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles (LRMV): New player in European tank production

Frag Out! Magazine — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:12:01 +0000

Leonardo and Rheinmetall have decided to establish a joint venture aiming at forming a new European nucleus for the development and production of military combat vehicles in Europe. The companies had already signed a corresponding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Rome at the beginning of July 2024. Rheinmetall AG and Leonardo S.p.A. will be equal shareholders (50% each) in the new company Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles (LRMV), which will have its legal headquarters in Rome and an operational headquarter in […]

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BAE Systems awarded contract to produce additional Bradley Fighting Vehicles for the U.S. Army

Frag Out! Magazine — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:25:32 +0000

The U.S. Army and BAE Systems (LON:BA) definitized a contract modification worth over $440 million to produce additional Bradley Fighting Vehicles. This award includes the production of more than 200 A4 variants. The order will be delivered to the Army as a modernized replacement to some of the Bradleys that the U.S. government has provided to Ukraine. “The Bradley Fighting Vehicle brings game-changing capabilities to the Army and our allied nations. Because of the support for additional production of the […]

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Rheinmetall hands over first Lynx IFV from Hungarian manufacturing

Frag Out! Magazine — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:18:59 +0000

At a ceremony on 24 July 2024, Rheinmetall handed over the first KF41 Lynx infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) produced at the Zalaegerszeg site in Hungary to the Hungarian armed forces. On behalf of the Hungarian government, Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky attended the handover. Dr Björn Bernhard (Head of Rheinmetall Vehicle Systems Europe) and Paul Walf (CEO Rheinmetall Hungary) welcomed the guests on behalf of Rheinmetall.The first Lynx from Hungarian production was already completed in December 2023. Following extensive functional inspections […]

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New BAE Systems CV90 combat vehicles for Sweden

Frag Out! Magazine — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:57:34 +0000

BAE Systems has signed a contract with the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) for new CV9035 MkIIIC vehicles, as well as associated integrated logistic support. This new contract will provide new-build CV90s to help replenish the Swedish Army’s fleet. These new CV9035 MkIIICs will replace CV9040 vehicles donated to Ukraine by the Swedish government. In addition, the Swedish government is procuring more new-build CV90 vehicles to expand Ukraine capabilities. The contract will provide the opportunity for other nations to join […]

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Rheinmetall delivers additional 20 Marder IFVs for Ukraine

Frag Out! Magazine — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:53:04 +0000

The German government comissioned Rheinmetall to deliver 20 additional Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to the Ukraine. The order was placed in March 2024 and has a value in the mid double-digit million Euro range. The delivery of this new lot is scheduled within 2024. So far, Rheinmetall has already handed over a three-digit number of Marder IFVs to the Ukrainian Armed Forces via direct deliveries and circular exchange programmes. The version of the 1A3 Marder that has now been […]

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BAE Systems secures contract for Mid-Life Upgrade of the Danish CV90 fleet

Frag Out! Magazine — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:33:15 +0000

BAE Systems has signed a contract with the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) for the Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) of the Danish CV90 fleet, ensuring the vehicles’ performance for many years to come. This MLU contract follows the previously signed framework agreement regarding repair and maintenance services. Under the contract, the Danish CV90 infantry fighting vehicles will be integrated with the new D-series turret, a leap forward in design and functionality which provides significant improvements in vehicle […]

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Rheinmetall builds first Lynx infantry fighting vehicle for Hungary in Hungary

Frag Out! Magazine — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:14:52 +0000

Rheinmetall continues to expand Europe’s armoured vehicle production capacity. Following the opening of the Group’s production, development and test facility for armoured fighting vehicles in Zalaegerszeg, the first Lynx infantry fighting vehicle to be built in-country in Hungary has now rolled off the assembly line. It is currently undergoing commissioning. In mid 2024, following comprehensive function, performance and quality inspections in Zalaegerszeg, the first Hungarian-built Lynx will be transferred to the Hungarian armed forces. Rheinmetall is steadily expanding its production […]

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Rheinmetall awarded development contract for Skyranger variant of Lynx in Hungary

Frag Out! Magazine — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:27:00 +0000

The Düsseldorf-based tech enterprise Rheinmetall has scored a significant success in marketing its new Skyranger 30 air defence system as part of the European Sky Shield Initiative: Hungary, a NATO and EU member nation, has awarded Rheinmetall a contract for the conceptual development of the Skyranger 30 turret for the future Lynx KF41 Mobile Air Defence Vehicle. The contract has been signed on 15th December 2023 in Budapest. For Rheinmetall, the development contract is worth close to €30 million. The […]

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Hanwha Aerospace Awarded Contract by Australia for Infantry Fighting Vehicles

Frag Out! Magazine — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:25:51 +0000

Hanwha Aerospace today announced that its subsidiary, Hanwha Defence Australia (HDA), has signed a $2.4 billion (USD) contract with the Australian government for the delivery of 129 Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), including the development and delivery of the training system components and support system components. This contract marks a historic milestone as it represents the first instance in which a South Korean defense company has successfully developed defense solutions for the Australian Army, a member of AUKUS. This accomplishment […]

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Rheinmetall to supply Ukraine with a further 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles

Frag Out! Magazine — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:20:16 +0000

The German government has commissioned Rheinmetall to supply 40 more Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. Placed in August 2023, the order is worth a high double-digit million-euro amount. Rheinmetall is pressing ahead with work to overhaul these older vehicles and ensure that the latest lot of Marder IFVs can be delivered as per contract starting in 2023. This order brings the total number of Marder vehicles to be supplied by Rheinmetall to Ukraine to eighty. On 21 March 2023 […]

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Rheinmetall welcomes German-Australian cooperation for procurement of 100+ Boxer vehicles for Germany

Frag Out! Magazine — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 07:08:04 +0000

Rheinmetall has welcomed the signing of a German-Australian letter of cooperation for the planned production of Boxer combat vehicles in Australia for for the German Army’s “schwerer Waffenträger Infanterie” (heavy weapon carrier infantry) project, deepening the close cooperation and defence partnership between the two nations in the land domain. From 22 July to 4 August 2023, the multinational exercise Talisman Sabre took place in Australia, with the German military taking part. The exercise included amphibious landings, manoeuvres with ground forces, […]

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BAE Systems to deliver additional Bradley Fighting Vehicles

Frag Out! Magazine — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:29:00 +0000

BAE Systems (LSE: BA) was awarded a contract modification exceeding $190 million for continued production of the Bradley A4. The award includes more than 70 M2A4 Infantry Fighting Vehicles and the M7A4 Fire Support Team Vehicles. This award follows the Early Order Material awards in August and November 2022. Continued upgrades to the A4 from the M2A2 Operation Desert Storm – Situational Awareness (ODS-SA) variant is part of the Army’s combat vehicle modernization strategy to ensure force readiness of the […]

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Rheinmetall & Team Lynx awarded contract for U.S. Army’s XM30 MICV (OMFV) program

Frag Out! Magazine — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:08:58 +0000

The U.S. Army has awarded American Rheinmetall Vehicles and the industry leading companies of Team Lynx – Textron Systems, Raytheon Technologies, L3Harris Technologies, Allison Transmission, and Anduril Industries – a contract for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) Phase 3 Detailed Design and Phase 4 Prototype Build and Test phases of the five-phased program, now named the XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle program. The Army awarded a total of two contracts for Phase 3 and 4 performance. The two competitors […]

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Hanwha Aerospace Selected as Preferred Bidder for Land 400 Phase 3 by Australian Army

Frag Out! Magazine — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:59:00 +0000

Hanwha Aerospace announced today that its subsidiary, Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA), has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Land 400 Phase 3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) program with the Redback IFV. This program includes 129 vehicles across two variants and will be delivered under an accelerated schedule, in alignment with the Australian Army’s Defence Strategic Review. This selection marks the first that a South Korean defense company has been chosen as a preferred bidder for a program by […]

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Australia selects Hanwha Redback as next fighting vehicle

Frag Out! Magazine — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:04:46 +0000

The Australian Army will receive 129 new infantry fighting vehicles in response to Australia’s changing strategic environment. Making the announcement today, the Australian Government said Hanwha’s state-of-the-art Redbacks would be built at the company’s facilities in the Geelong region, supporting Australia’s strategic imperative to develop sovereign defence manufacturing capabilities. At a cost of between $5 billion and $7 billion, the LAND 400 Phase 3 project will be one of the largest capability acquisitions in Army’s history. Replacing the M113 armoured […]

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Rheinmetall now supplying Ukraine with a further 20 Marder IFVs

Frag Out! Magazine — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:31:53 +0000

At the behest of the German government, Rheinmetall is once again supplying Ukraine with Marder infantry fighting vehicles. Awarded in May 2023, the order is worth a figure in the lower-two-digit million-euro range. The Marders are due to be delivered this summer. Acting on behalf of the German government, Rheinmetall already shipped the first of twenty Marder IFVs to Ukraine back on 21 March 2023. Ukraine received a further twenty of these tried-and-tested vehicles directly from existing Bundeswehr stocks. In […]

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Bundeswehr orders fifty more Puma IFV

Frag Out! Magazine — Mon, 15 May 2023 08:34:03 +0000

Germany’s two top military vehicle makers, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall, have been awarded an order to build a further fifty Puma infantry fighting vehicles. Including value added tax, the total value of the order comes to €1.087 billion. Of this amount, €574 million will go to KMW and €501 million to Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH, both of which are serving as subcontractors in the project. A contract to this effect has now been issued by Germany’s Federal Office for Bundeswehr […]

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Bundeswehr orders upgrade of 143 Puma infantry fighting vehicles

Frag Out! Magazine — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:24:43 +0000

Germany’s Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has awarded Projekt System & Management GmbH (PSM), a joint venture of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall, an order to retrofit a further 143 Puma infantry fighting vehicles. In doing so, the German government is exercising two options contained in the contract for retrofitting original Puma infantry fighting vehicles to the new S1 design status. This contract was signed in June 2021. The order volume is in the […]

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Rheinmetall welcomes the start of negotiations to build 100+ Boxer combat vehicles in Australia for the German Bundeswehr

Frag Out! Magazine — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:33:38 +0000

Rheinmetall has welcomed the Germany-Australia letter of cooperation to progress a proposal to build Boxer combat vehicles in Australia for export to Germany, expanding the close cooperation and defence partnership between the two nations in the land domain. The Boxers to be built in Australia are intended for the German Army’s “schwerer Waffenträger Infanterie” (heavy weapon carrier infantry), a direct tactical fire support vehicle for infantry forces. The letter of cooperation, signed on 23 March 2023 in Canberra by The […]

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Rheinmetall Strikes the Arc on Australian Boxer CRV

Frag Out! Magazine — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:27:43 +0000

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today visited Rheinmetall as the company striked the arc on the first weld of materials for the first Australian Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle entering production at Rheinmetall’s Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE) in Ipswich, Queensland. This vehicle will be the first to enter the production line together with initial vehicles from Germany currently being assembled at the site. Joined by Deputy Premier Dr Steven Miles, Australian Industry Partners including Bisalloy, Marand, Intellidesign and Rheinmetall’s 600 […]

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Rheinmetall launches production of Lynx IFV in Hungary

Frag Out! Magazine — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:10:24 +0000

Rheinmetall’s state-of-the-art Lynx infantry fighting vehicle has reached its latest interim objective: promptly at the start on 2023, low-rate initial production (LRIP) began in NATO member nation Hungary, the vehicle’s first customer. Pre-series production is an important milestone, one which also encompasses fabrication of the Lance medium-calibre turret as well as additional variants of the Lynx. Full-rate production, or FRP, is due to commence in July 2023. Recruitment of qualified personnel and the inflow of technical equipment for the Lynx […]

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Slovakia Signs $1.37 Billion Deal for 152 BAE Systems CV90s under Government-to-Government Agreement

Frag Out! Magazine — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:26:21 +0000

As part of a government-to-government agreement between Sweden and the Slovak Republic, the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic has signed a $1.37 billion (€1.3 billion) agreement for the delivery of 152 CV9035 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) from BAE Systems. The CV90s will be produced and delivered in several configurations with the full cooperation of Slovak industry including ZTS – ŠPECIÁL as the main industry partner to BAE Systems. Other Slovak state-owned and private companies will take critical roles […]

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Rheinmetall supplies Marder IFV to Greece

Frag Out! Magazine — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:21:56 +0000

As part of another backfill activity commissioned by the German government, Rheinmetall is supplying Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Greece. The first units of these Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles were presented as part of the parade of the Hellenic Armed Forces on the occasion of the national holiday on October 28th in Thessaloniki. The Hellenic Armed Forces, for their part, are giving Infantry Fighting Vehicles of Soviet design and other military equipment for support to Ukraine and are receiving […]

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BAE Systems’ new CV90 variants add capabilities and combat efficiency for Swedish Army

Frag Out! Magazine — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:20:00 +0000

BAE Systems has signed a follow-on contract worth $90 million with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for two new CV90 variants, which are being added to the Swedish CV90 RENO upgrade program. The two new variants will be delivered by BAE Systems’ Swedish joint venture HB Utveckling AB, which brings together BAE Systems Hägglunds and Bofors manufacturing capabilities. The new variants are the Forward Maintenance vehicle, which will provide critical frontline support, repair, and recovery for other vehicles, ensuring […]

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