The £800-million investment will also create hundreds of highly-skilled jobs across the country ensuring our soldiers benefit from the very best of British engineering. This pioneering new technology allows us to deliver immense warfighting capabilities in battlespaces filled with a range of enemy threats.
This represents a huge shift in the modernisation of our land forces through the increased lethality of Challenger 3. This cutting-edge tank will also feature an upgraded engine with a new cooling system and suspension to improve accuracy when firing in transit.Ī new automatic target detection and tracking system will be used to identify threats, whilst new thermal long-range cameras will be fitted as part of a day/night image system. Ammunition will also be programmed digitally from a new turret with a 120 millimetre smoothbore gun.
The new tank will carry additional high velocity ammunition able to travel at faster speeds with an increased range. Based in Telford, the contract will create 200 jobs at Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), including 130 engineers and 70 technicians, with a further 450 jobs to be established throughout the wider supply chain across the West Midlands, Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne and the Isle of Wight.
0 kommentar(er)
