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BAE awarded $225 million APKWS rocket contract for US, Nigeria, Netherlands



BAE Systems was awarded a $225 million contract to produce almost 10,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System units for the United States, Nigeria and the Netherlands, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a release.

The $225,034,247 firm-fixed-price delivery order was issued against a 2017 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-17-D-5517) to procure 9,999 Lot 7, full-rate production APKWS II units, the Wednesday, February 6 release said.

Work is expected to be completed in September 2020.

While the release said the procurement is “in support of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the governments of Nigeria and the Netherlands,” the foreign military sales component of the contract was the full value. “Fiscal 2019 procurement of ammunition (Army, Navy and Marine Corps and Air Force); and Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $225,034,247 will be obligated at time of award,” the release said.

APKWS upgrades 2.75-inch (70 mm) rockets to a semi-active laser guided precision weapon. The system is a design conversion for Hydra 70 unguided rockets turning them into low-yield precision-guided munitions to help avoid collateral damage.

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2019/02/07/bae-contract-apkws-rocket-guidance-nigeria-netherlands-225-million/

10,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System? That's a lot of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System.

Our enemies better watch out, PMB is not playing.

Those are the rockets coming with the Tucanos

Boko boys don suffer be that oooo!!

GamalNasser:
Those are the rockets coming with the Tucanos

We bought thousands of rockets with the Tucanos, but they are getting converted to guided precision rockets with the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, meaning targets can run, but they can not hide, the rockets won't miss their targets.