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BAE Systems Details Team Offering Archer System For U.K.’s Future Artillery Program

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, December 11th, 2023

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BAE Systems Details Team Offering Archer System For U.K.’s Future Artillery Program

BAE's ARCHER artillery system, recently delivered to Sweden. Photo: BAE Systems.

BAE Systems is teaming with British defense firm Babcock and the Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) joint venture to offer the Archer mobile artillery system for the U.K.’s upcoming program to field a new 155mm howitzer platform. The British Army is already utilizing the Archer platform as an interim solution ahead of the Mobile Fires Platform modernization program, which will look to find an enduring replacement for the legacy AS-90 155mm howitzer. “Working with our strategic partners in the U.K.,…

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