Aerojet Rocketdyne to Provide Additional Armor-Piercing Components for M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Rounds
20 Avril 2023 - 6:32PM
Aerojet Rocketdyne’s specialty metal provider Aerojet Ordnance
Tennessee (AOT) has been awarded a multi-year Indefinite Delivery
Indefinite Quantity contract worth up to $75 million by the Army’s
Project Manager for Maneuver Ammunitions Systems to provide M829A4
120mm Kinetic Energy round components. The M829A4 is an
Armor-Piercing, Fin-Stabilized, Discarding-Sabot, Tracer round
fired from the U.S. Army’s M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.
“We are pleased to continue supporting the Army with the
cutting-edge, armor-piercing technology that protects our forces
and keeps our adversaries on the defensive,” said Eileen P. Drake,
Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and president. “In terms of precision and
lethality, the M829A4 tank round is second to none, which is what
our brave men and women in uniform deserve.”
Aerojet Rocketdyne has provided these armor-piercing components
since the introduction of the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.
The M829A4 is the newest design of the U.S. Army’s Kinetic
Energy tank round and the 5th generation of technology for kinetic
energy projectile design. The round is proven to have outstanding
accuracy and lethality.
About Aerojet Rocketdyne: Aerojet Rocketdyne, a
subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), is a
world-recognized aerospace and defense leader that provides
propulsion systems and energetics to the space, missile defense and
strategic systems, and tactical systems areas, in support of
domestic and international customers. For more information, visit
www.Rocket.com and www.AerojetRocketdyne.com. Follow Aerojet
Rocketdyne and CEO Eileen Drake on Twitter at @AerojetRdyne and
@DrakeEileen.
Media Contact:Eileen Lainez, Aerojet
Rocketdyne, 571-239-7839eileen.lainez@rocket.com
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