Rheinmetall Denel Munitions has received orders from the South African Armoured Corps for 105mm high-explosive tracer ammunition and 76mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot tracer ammunition.
The 105mm high-explosive tracer ammunition is for use on its Olifant main battle tank (MBT) and the 76mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot tracer ammunition is for the Rooikat armoured car.
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The Olifant MBT is based on the UK Centurion cruiser tank and is armed with the Denel Land Systems GT7 105mm 52-calibre high-pressure gun.
The Rooikat has been designed to conduct missions that include combat reconnaissance, search-and-destroy, anti-armour operations, combat patrols and peacekeeping presence patrols.
The armoured car is equipped with a Denel GT4 high pressure 76mm 62-calibre rifled gun, which can fire an APFSDS round at a speed in excess of 1,600m/s.
The SA Army has 266 Olifant MBTs in five variants: the mk2, mk1B and mk1A MBT, 16 armoured recovery vehicles (ARV) and two armoured bridgelayers (ABL), according to Defence Web.
