Saab acquired an order in mid-December 2022 for the AT4 anti-armour weapon from the French Armament Basic Directorate (DGA). The AT4 household is named the Roquette NG (Nouvelle Génération) in France. The order worth is roughly EUR € 24 million and deliveries will happen in 2023. The order was booked in This autumn 2022. The AT4 household is a spread of light-weight, man-portable, disposable weapons characterised by ease of use. AT4 can be utilized towards tanks and heavy fight autos in addition to threats in buildings and fortifications and to guard fastened installations, provide factors and different important property.
“We’re proud to but once more be chosen to ship our world class single-shot AT4 system to France. Our future prepared AT4 will make sure the French armed forces have the mandatory firepower to provide them the benefit on the battlefield,” says Görgen Johansson, head of Saab´s enterprise space Dynamics.
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In 2004, Saab and Nexter Munitions has received a contract by the French Armament Basic Directorateto provide the Roquette NG next-generation shoulder-launched weapon system, AT4CS ER (Prolonged Vary, prolonged from 300 to 600 m ), AT4CS HE (Excessive Explosive, penetrate as much as 45 cm (18 in) of rolled homogeneous armour with beyond-armour impact) and AT4CS AST (Anti-Construction, combines a shallow-coned HEAT warhead with a tandem-charge and a follow-through high-blast warhead). The contract additionally incorporates deliveries of outside coaching simulators from Saab. There are a number of totally different projectiles for the AT4.
The AT4 is a Swedish 84 mm (3.31 in) unguided, man-portable, disposable, shoulder-fired recoilless anti-tank weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics (previously: FFV Ordance, later, Bofors Anti-Armour Methods). The AT4 just isn’t thought of a rocket launcher because the explosive warhead just isn’t propelled by a rocket motor; equally, it’s not precisely a recoilless rifle, however relatively a recoilless gun, because the launcher is smoothbore and never rifled. Saab has had appreciable gross sales success with the AT4, making it one of the vital frequent mild anti-tank weapons on the planet. The M136 AT4 is a variant utilized by the US Military.
