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The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) selects the SHARD new-generation armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) round

17 February 2026 – The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has placed an order with KNDS Ammo France for several

Providing integral indirect fire capability to main battle tanks, allowing them to hit non-line-of-sight targets with their own ammunition, at

Born for ensuring maximum muzzle velocity to kinetic energy rounds, used to neutralise enemy tanks, 120 mm smoothbore guns can

On July 18th, 2025, CIO (Consorzio Iveco-Oto Melara), the consortium created in the 1980s to design and produce a new

Monday, 14 April 2025 – The next step has now been taken in the Franco-German armaments project Main Ground Combat

Rome/Duesseldorf, July 3, 2024 – Leonardo and Rheinmetall have signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a new

On September 19th 2023, short before the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War that will fall on October 6th,

13/07/2023 – The German Bundeswehr has expanded to €4 billion an existing framework agreement with Rheinmetall for the supply of

Both contenders for the future western main battle tank gun calibre were present at Eurosatory 2022 the bigger one, 140

In the past years Eurosatory marked the unveiling of new armoured tracked vehicles produced by Rheinmetall. Following the KF31, a