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General Dynamics Awarded US$5.1 Million Artillery Ammunition Contract
 St Petersburg FL (SPX) Aug 10, 2004
 General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced Monday that the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, has awarded a US$5.1 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract to manufacture 105mm and 155mm artillery projectiles.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems will supply projectiles for the Army's Advanced Conventional Artillery Ammunition Program (ACA2P). This contract will supply long-range 105/155mm insensitive high explosive, smoke and illumination projectiles.

The artillery projectiles are a South African Denel design and are currently undergoing safety assessments at Yuma Proving Ground (Yuma, Ariz.). Work will be performed in the Republic of South Africa (75 percent) and St Petersburg, Fla. (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by Aug. 1, 2005; quantities in this contract will be for safety and gun qualification testing in 2005.

The NATO compatible projectiles deliver enhanced battlefield effects beyond 30 km in a standard 39-caliber 155mm gun, thus exceeding current stockpile capabilities. Current U.S. Marine and Army towed and self-propelled howitzer systems and the Future Non-Line-of-Sight - Cannon will use the ammunition.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems manufactures payload delivery systems, propellant, large- and medium-caliber ammunition, warheads, control systems, and ordnance/missile components.

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