UK: Mobile Fires Platform

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BAE Systems announces team for the UK's future artillery programme

https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/b ... -programme

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Dzt. werden britische Soldaten beim Bodens artilleriregemente am System "Archer" ausgebildet:


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Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) has signed an agreement with the US Department of Defence to upgrade an additional seventeen M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and four Repair and Recovery Vehicles (RRVs). MLRS is at the core of the Integrated Review 21 (IR21) and the Army’s ‘Pivot to the Deep’. The Fleet Expansion effort is the first step towards doubling the number of platforms available for Defence taking the fleet from 48 platforms to 69.

The agreement will see platform upgraded at Red River Army Depot and Lockheed Martin’s Camden Facility in the United States with UK specific modifications being manufactured by British industry and shipped to the US for integration. Repair and Recovery Vehicles will be fitted out with their mission systems in the UK following the recent contract award to EKA Limited.

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It has been announced that EKA Limited have been awarded a contract to upgrade the Royal Artillery's fleet of M270 Repair and Recovery Vehicles (RRVs).

The RRVs will not only recover MLRS but act as a mobile workshop allowing launchers to be repaired in the field and return to action in a fraction of the time. The upgrade requirements have been developed by #REME Maintainers and Recovery Mechanics putting the User at the heart of developing the capability. They will continue to support the upgrade through development, manufacture and trials before eventually accepting them in to service. This represents another important step to achieving the #BritishArmy’s modernisation of our Deep Fires capability through the programmes directorate.

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7. Februar 2024

British soldiers from the Army's Royal School of Artillery (RSA) based in Larkhill have been putting their skills to the test to fire the Archer Mobile Howitzer for the first time during a training exercise in the snowy, frozen military training area of Boden, Sweden.

The historical moment was the culmination of a 14-week Train The Trainer (T3) course provided by The Swedish Artillery School. The course follows the recent delivery of the first of 14 guns to the British Army.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/british- ... 31297-UYzz

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So arbeiteten Deutschland und Großbritannien bereits eng zusammen bei Projekten wie dem neuen Artilleriesystem (RCH 155) und beim Radpanzer Boxer.

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/ ... ak-2272872

Deutschland-Koblenz: Waffenträger

2023/S 026-075730

Bekanntmachung vergebener Aufträge in den Bereichen Verteidigung und Sicherheit

Lieferauftrag

II.1.1) Bezeichnung des Auftrags

Reifegradanalyse RCH155

Radhaubitze – Deutsches Heer soll RCH 155 von KMW erhalten

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DE&S delivers Archer mobile howitzers to the British Army

The British Army has begun training on UK soil with the Archer mobile howitzer artillery systems, after DE&S accepted delivery of 10 more from Sweden, along with 13 ammunition resupply vehicles.

Last year DE&S delivered the first Archer systems as a rapid procurement, to provide an interim solution following the UK’s commitment to grant-in-kind 32 AS90 self-propelled guns to Ukraine. With this delivery, the Royal Artillery now has 14 of these guns, fulfilling the Army’s artillery capability requirement until the incoming 155mm Remote Controlled Howitzer arrives.

The Archers were bought under a government-to-government agreement with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration and have been upgraded to a UK specification by BAE Bofors and GD Mission Systems.

Colonel Stu Nassé, Assistant Head Military Capability Delivery in Army HQ, said: “This acceptance marks the completion of the initial acquisition of 14 Archers and is a significant milestone. The essential – but challenging – work to turn this into a full capability continues at pace with proactive collaboration between the Royal Artillery, Army HQ and DE&S.”

Colonel Stephan Sjöberg, Artillery Inspector of the Swedish Armed Forces, said: “The UK and Sweden are working together with Archer regarding support and best use of the system. In addition, there are ongoing preparations for further activities together, such as the Exercise Dynamic Front in Finland.”

Exercise Dynamic Front will take place in November this year and will provide an opportunity for the Royal Artillery to live-fire and put Archer through its paces.

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Guided Weapons: Procurement

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 34899, tabled on 3 March 2025

The UK currently has 61 M270 MLRS launchers and eight Repair and Recovery Vehicles (RRV) on order with the US Department of Defense. The MOD is currently considering the procurement of a further 15 MLRS and one RRV.

Following the initial replenishment contract for M31 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS), a subsequent investment of £800 million for GMLRS and Extended Range GMLRS (ER-GMLRS) missiles over 10 years has been committed for the procurement of missiles. The stockpile number remains classified.

https://questions-statements.parliament ... 3-03/34899

Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) has signed an agreement with the US Department of Defence to upgrade an additional seventeen M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and four Repair and Recovery Vehicles (RRVs). MLRS is at the core of the Integrated Review 21 (IR21) and the Army’s ‘Pivot to the Deep’. The Fleet Expansion effort is the first step towards doubling the number of platforms available for Defence taking the fleet from 48 platforms to 69.

The agreement will see platform upgraded at Red River Army Depot and Lockheed Martin’s Camden Facility in the United States with UK specific modifications being manufactured by British industry and shipped to the US for integration. Repair and Recovery Vehicles will be fitted out with their mission systems in the UK following the recent contract award to EKA Limited.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/british- ... 18372-A2id

It has been announced that EKA Limited have been awarded a contract to upgrade the Royal Artillery's fleet of M270 Repair and Recovery Vehicles (RRVs).

The RRVs will not only recover MLRS but act as a mobile workshop allowing launchers to be repaired in the field and return to action in a fraction of the time. The upgrade requirements have been developed by #REME Maintainers and Recovery Mechanics putting the User at the heart of developing the capability. They will continue to support the upgrade through development, manufacture and trials before eventually accepting them in to service. This represents another important step to achieving the #BritishArmy’s modernisation of our Deep Fires capability through the programmes directorate.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/british- ... _like_view