Mystery customer orders RDM mortar ammo
South Africa-based Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) has received a contract from an unnamed ‘long-standing’ international customer for 60mm mortar ammunition.
RDM will provide ‘different state-of-the-art 60mm conventional, long-range and patrol mortar ammunition’ by the end of 2021, the Rheinmetall subsidiary announced on 1 October.
The order is worth a figure in the mid-single-digit million euro range, RDM added.
The full RDM mortar suite of 60mm, 81mm and 120mm ammunition features an insensitive high-explosive warhead with pre-formed fragmentation.
‘RDM is collaborating with various partners in order to boost the guidance function in our range of our 120mm mortar ammunition,’ added Frans Landsberg, RDM mortar product manager.
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