Artillery: Procurement
(asked on 20th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to source artillery from international partners.
This question was answered on 28th March 2023
As announced on 16 March 2023, the UK has agreed a government-to-government sale with Sweden for the procurement of Archer artillery systems following the Granting in Kind of AS90 to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ownership of the Archer artillery systems will be transferred to the British Army this month and be fully operational by April 2024.