Ukraine will receive another 180 thousand shells for Gepard installations
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Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:01:00 +0200
Rheinmetall to supply Ukraine with 180,000 ammunition for GepardAccording to information, the order for highexplosive incendiary tracer shells HEIT was received in December 2024.In total, since February 2023, Rheinmetall has signed agreements to supply Ukraine with 300,000 shells for Gepard installations.These munitions are designed to effectively combat aerial targets such as drones and will be manufactured at the Rheinmetall plant in Unterlss.To meet the growing demand for 35mm ammunition, the plants production facilities were modernized on short notice in the spring of 2023.Rheinmetall, together with the US, is developing software for Ukrainian dronesIn the overall transition from manned to unmanned systems, it is very important that autonomous systems can interact with each other, said Lorenz Mayer, CEO of Auterion, whose software is already used by drones in Ukraine.The Auterion operating system will allow the customer to unify all drones on a common basis and integrate different manufacturers into a common architecture.According to Timo Haas, Rheinmetalls digital director, there are over two hundred different unmanned aerial systems operating in Ukraine, military training is very expensive and timeconsuming, and the compatibility of the systems is not guaranteed.
The development of a uniform operating system will ensure efficient and scalable deployment of unmanned systems.
Auterion, along with other companies, is already part of the U.S.
Department of Defenses initiative to develop an opensource standard for autonomous systems, and the company hopes its partnership with Rheinmetall will help to introduce a similar approach among NATO allies.If each NATO country has its own communications standard for drones, NATO will not be able to fight together, Mayer said.
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