Tag: Rheinmetall
Full-Speed Ahead For MASS
To protect their fleets from missile attacks, the navies of Peru, Finland and Germany have all ordered MASS, Rheinmetall's "Multi Ammunition Softkill System", a...
Three Industry Teams Submit Proposals for the U.S. Army Future Ground...
Three tag teams are in for yet another round of wrestling for future armored vehicle championship. As always, the teams are the same. As before, the championship prize is the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV), with competing teams leaders are General Dynamics, BAE Systems and SAIC.
SMArt Sensor-Fuzed Amunition for 155mm guns
SMArt 155 (DM702) is produced by GIWS – a subsidiary of Diehl and Rheinmetall. SMArt is an intelligent, autonomous fire and forget artillery projectile...
Muraena – Mast-Mounted Gun Systems for Submarines
Muraena is another innovative idea for littoral and counter terror warfare is proposed by HDW for submarines. The system is a hoistable, mast-mounted automatic...
Rheinmetall Gains Control in Armor Specialist Chempro
The German Rheinmetall group is taking up a majority interest of 51% in Chempro, a privately held company specializing in advanced armor protection. The...
Naval Defense Systems at Defendory 2006
Part I - Part II
At Defendory 2006 Lockheed Martin displayed their Evolved Sea-Sparrow and advanced versions of SM-2 while MBDA discussed weapon suite for...
Smover Robotic Vehicle Control System from Rheinmetall
The system can be used to convert conventional tactical vehicles into hybrid (manned/unmanned) robotic platforms. Manned vehicles equipped with Smover can be used as...
Yak – Armored Command vehicle
Rheinmetall Landsysteme is producing the Yak command post vehicle. This high mobility armored 12 ton vehicle is designed to carry command post elements. The...
PELE/ALP Enhanced Tube-Fired Ammunition
PELE and ALP technologies significantly enhance the effectiveness and versatility of existing tube-fired ammunition (tank projectiles, artillery shells and rockets). Penetrator with Enhanced Lateral Effect...