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Rheinmetall To Supply 382 Retrofit Kits For British Logistic Vehicles Fleet
September 17, 2018 @ 12:27 PMRheinmetall has won a contract worth over €43 million to modernize part of the British militarys fleet of logistic vehicles with a new loading system. According to the company press release, a total of 382 retrofit kits for the Enhanced Pallet Loading System, or EPLS, will be supplied and integrated into the tried-and-tested HX trucks of British Armed Forces
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Australia Orders More Rheinmetall Military Trucks Worth $430M
September 6, 2018 @ 12:53 PMThe Duesseldorf, Germany-based tech enterprise has been selected to supply the Australian Defence Force with more than a thousand additional military trucks and modules, worth €430 million. The Commonwealth of Australia has thus acted on a procurement decision already announced in July 2018
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Eight Killed in Rheinmetall-Denel’s South African Plant Explosion
September 3, 2018 @ 08:18 PMEight people were killed Monday in an explosion at a Rheinmetall-Denel munitions factory near Cape Town in South Africa. The blast was reported by local residents near the Rheinmetall-Denel plant in Somerset West when it erupted at 3:45 pm local time
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Australia Orders 211 Rheinmetall Boxer Wheeled Armored Vehicles for $2.4 Billion
August 17, 2018 @ 12:36 PMAustralia has awarded $2.4 billion (€2
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Rheinmetall Defense Gets New CTO
August 10, 2018 @ 10:40 AMRheinmetall has appointed Klaus Kappen, a formerly head of Research and Development coordination and Special Projects for Land Systems as the new Chief Technology Officer for its Defense business. In charge of the newly established CTO department at Rheinmetall headquarters, Kappen reports directly to the Chairman of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG, Armin Papperger, the company said in a statement Friday
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Rheinmetall To Supply Additional Argus Soldier Systems To Canadian Armed Forces
August 6, 2018 @ 02:58 PMThe Canadian Armed Forces have exercised options under the Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP) to procure an additional 1,256 Rheinmetall Argus soldier systems worth CAD22 million (€14.3 million)
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Australian Defence Forces Order 1000 Logistics Trucks From Rheinmetall
July 26, 2018 @ 01:33 PMRheinmetall has won an agreement to supply new military trucks and modules to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) under the LAND 121 Phase 5B program. Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Australia (RMMVA) will deliver more than 1000 high mobility logistics trucks and more than 800 modules to the ADF under the new program, which is an extension of the current LAND 121 Phase 3B Project
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Rheinmetall To Supply Laser Light Package To German Army
July 5, 2018 @ 02:41 PMGermanys procurement authority, the Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-service Support, has awarded Rheinmetall a contract to supply a lightweight, assault rifle-mounted laser light package for the German Army. Worth around €5 million, the order encompasses the manufacture and delivery of 1,745 laser light package sets for the Bundeswehrs Special Forces Assault Rifle (“Sturmgewehr Spezialkräfte Bundeswehr, leicht”)
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Rheinmetall Wins Canadian MASS Countermeasures Follow-on Contract
June 20, 2018 @ 01:32 PMRheinmetall has won a $15 million (€12 million) follow-on contract to expand the MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) countermeasure systems installed on Canadian Navys Halifax-class frigates. MASS is an automated decoy system that protects surface combatants from advanced anti-ship missiles
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Rheinmetall Showcases New Lynx KF 41 Infantry Fighting Vehicle at Eurosatory
June 13, 2018 @ 03:43 PMRheinmetall has showcased its next generation Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) at the on-going Eurosatory 2018 exhibition in Paris for the first time. The Lynx KF41 family of vehicles utilise a common drive module and a mission kit arrangement to allow any base vehicle to be configured as an IFV, an armoured personnel carrier, a command vehicle, a recovery vehicle or an ambulance, the company said in a statement Tuesday
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