The Russian Ministry of Defence plans to purchase up to 30 upgraded 2S25 Sprut SD 125mm self-propelled anti-tank guns (SPATG) by the end of December.
The acquisition forms part of the existing strategy to modernize the Russian Army through to 2030, according to an MoD representative.
The 2S25 Sprut SD was developed by the Volgograd Machine Building Joint Stock Company (VGTZ) in the 1990s to provide Russian Army air assault units with a SPATG capable of defeating main battle tanks.
Armed with a 125mm 2A75 smoothbore gun, developed by the Yekaterinburg Artillery Plant No 9, the 2S25 provides similar firepower
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The new Bushmasters will be used by the Australian Army’s second long-range fires regiment, to be based at the Edinburgh Defence Precinct in South Australia as part of the 10th Fires Brigade.
The British Army’s Land Mobility Programme (LMP) has struggled to make it to competition but there are hopes progress will be made this year.
The aid stations are designed to be mounted onto trucks, such as the Rheinnetall HX family of vehicles, and will be in ballistic protected and unprotected versions.
The contract is for transmissions for the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (JSMC) in Lima, Ohio for new tanks and overhaul and repair activities at Anniston Army Depot.
Jerusalem’s air defence capabilities procurement efforts will receive up to $190 million.
In the medium-term Lithuania has committed US$1.3 billion which includes Javelin ant-tank missiles, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), Black Hawk helicopters, missile systems and missiles.
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