On 9th December the U.S. Department of Defense and Raytheon signed a contract for production and delivery of the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) for Poland and Romania. AFATDS will be integrated with M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) rocket artillery batteries, which were ordered by the armed forces of both countries.
Raytheon was awarded a delivery contract for the AFATDS system to Poland and Romania / Picture: US Army
The contract has a value of over $26 million. According to the DoD, work ‘will be performed in Woburn, Massachusetts, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 19, 2021’.
Poland contracted delivery of one squadron of M142 HIMARS system on 13th February 2019. The system will be procured under the ‘Homar’ modernization programme. The agreement had a value of $414 million.
The contract calls for delivery of M142 HIMARS launchers, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) M31 Unitary, GMLRS M30A1 alternative warheads, Army Tactical Missile System M57 Unitary, AFATDS, multiple launcher pod assembly M68A2 trainers and M1151A1 High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles.
On 26th 2018 Romania signed a contract for delivery of three HIMARS rocket artillery squadrons for $1,5 billion.