Rheinmetall has as soon as once more gained a significant order within the subject of cellular air defence. The Kingdom of Denmark has contracted with Rheinmetall Air Defence to provide sixteen Skyranger 30 air defence turrets and extra car tools for an 8×8 wheeled platform to be used by the Danish armed forces. The order is price a determine within the low three-digit million euro vary. As well as, the shopper has ordered ammunition within the low double-digit million euro vary. Deliveries of the serial turrets are scheduled for 2027 and 2028, whereas a prototype is anticipated to be delivered in late 2026.
Lieutenant Common Per Pugholm Olsen, head of the Danish procurement company FMI, acknowledged: “The signing of this contract is a crucial step towards establishing the brigade’s air defence, which is an important a part of making the brigade totally operational. The number of the Skyranger turret and its machine cannon was made in shut cooperation with our colleagues on the Defence Command.”
Oliver Duerr, CEO Rheinmetall Digital Options: “We’re grateful that Denmark, one other main NATO buyer, now trusts our Skyranger 30. We’re happy to have the ability to combine Skyranger into one other car platform. This demonstrates the modularity and flexibility of our system.”
The Skyranger 30 presents an optimum mixture of mobility, safety, flexibility and precision to fulfill the rising calls for of difficult menace eventualities at shut and really shut vary. As a hybrid answer, its turret combines the highly effective 30mm x 173 KCE revolver cannon, surface-to-air guided missiles and the required sensors on a single platform. The well-thought-out design of the assorted weapons, excessive dynamics and a big elevation vary, in addition to state-of-the-art sensors, allow each autonomous and networked operations. The system’s airburst ammunition with a programmable airburst level of detonation is especially appropriate for countering drones.
The order that has now been positioned as soon as once more underscores Rheinmetall’s position as a world market chief in cannon-based air defence. On the identical time, it continues the success of the Skyranger 30. The Republic of Austria has positioned an order for the procurement of 36 Skyranger 30 programs as the primary buyer. Different NATO and EU member states are additionally planning to obtain the system or have already initiated the method.
In December 2023, Hungary commissioned Rheinmetall to hold out the conceptual growth of the Skyranger 30 turret for the long run anti-aircraft variant of the Lynx KF41 tracked car. As just lately as January 2024, Rheinmetall and a variety of industrial companions had been awarded a contract to develop the Shut and Very Quick Vary Air Defence System (Nah- und Naechstbereichsschutzsystem, NNbS) for the Bundeswehr, by which the Skyranger 30 shall be built-in as an essential element sooner or later. In February 2024, the Bundeswehr positioned an additional order for the Skyranger 30 cellular air defence system. The prototype is to be delivered as early as the tip of 2024, and 18 series-produced automobiles have additionally already been ordered.
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