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ST. PETERSBURG: The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, has awarded General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems an $18.6 million contract modification for the manufacture, assembly, delivery, staging and fielding of M313 120mm Mortar Sub-Caliber Training Devices.
This option award brings the total contract value for 60mm, 81mm and 120mm mortar weapon systems to $44.5 million dollars. The contract being modified was initially awarded in December 2005. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics.
The M313 120mm Mortar Sub-Caliber Training Device uses an M253 81mm cannon inserted into a mock M120 120mm Mortar System barrel, allowing 120mm mortar training to be performed with lower cost 81mm service and training ammunition.
Work will be performed at Watervliet Arsenal, N.Y.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Huntsville, Ala.; and Bethesda, Md. Deliveries under this contract modification are expected to be completed by December 2008.
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is a world leader in the manufacture of large, medium- and small-caliber direct and indirect-fire munitions, mortar weapons and systems, artillery projectiles, bomb bodies and Ball Powder
