
Ukraine has ordered 180,000 more Gepard 35 mm anti-aircraft shells from Rheinmetall. (Rheinmetall)
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has ordered more Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) 35 mm shells from Rheinmetall, the German company announced in a press release on 6 January.
Booked in December 2024, the order for 180,000 high-explosive incendiary-tracer (HEI-T) rounds is valued in the double-digit million euro range and is funded by Germany. A Rheinmetall spokesperson told Janes on 7 January that deliveries were planned for 2026–27.
The rounds will be produced at Rheinmetall's site in Unterlüß, where the production line was rebuilt in the second quarter of 2023 following an order for 300,000 rounds of Gepard ammunition in February of the same year. The Rheinmetall spokesperson said the 35 mm HEI-T production line was newly built, with a capacity in the six-digit range that will be further increased.
He reported that a large part of the 300,000 35 mm rounds ordered in February 2023 have been delivered, with deliveries of the rest to be completed in 2025, as stipulated by the contract. This first order was for 150,000 armour piercing discarding sabot-tracer (APDS-T) and 150,000 HEI-T rounds.
Germany has delivered 57 Gepards and 241,000 rounds of ammunition from the Bundeswehr and industry stocks for the SPAAGs to Ukraine, according to the German government's list of weapons and military equipment supplied by Berlin to Kyiv updated on 23 December 2024.
For more information, please see Ukraine conflict: Rheinmetall begins Gepard ammunition deliveries.
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