ISTEC delivers 65 weapons mounts for British Army’s MLRS A2
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ISTEC Services Limited, the British company with 35 years of operationally proven experience in the design, manufacture and supply of complex weapon integration solutions for military platforms, has recently completed delivery of 65 weapons mounts for the new MLRS A2 for the British Army. The contract was placed via the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA).
ISTEC has a long history of delivering weapon integration solutions for crew served weapons such as GPMG, HMG and MMG across Land, Sea and Air domains. They also have an operationally proven pedigree of supplying Universal Gun Mounts (UGMs) for key vehicles such as WMIK, Mastiff, Viking and Jackal use for Land operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Following successful trials last year, ISTEC won the competitive tender in late 2023 and recently competed delivery of all 65 sets of its double swing arm Medium Machine Gun (MMG) solution for the new MLRS A2 being procured by UK MoD. The MMG solution is crucial for enhancing the vehicles defensive capabilities and overall battlefield resilience, increasing the crew’s ability to protect themselves in a hostile environment and having been procured by NSPA is also available for other NATO countries to purchase.
ISTEC weapons integration solutions are designed with years of experience to ensure they are easy to use, extremely robust and provide the best possible arcs of fire and range of operation depending on the mounting location and vehicle configuration.
Users also benefit from ISTECs end to end support approach, where mounts are designed to minimise the maintenance regime, standardised parts are used where possible to reduce the logistic burden and the integration solution is fully backed by ISTECs dynamic customer support.
Adrian Webster, Operations Manager at ISTEC said: “We are extremely pleased to have won this important project to help upgrade the UK’s MLRS platform and ensure it is fitted with the best possible crew served weapons mount. We have years of experience in delivering this type of capability and we also have other work in support of the MLRS programme that we will announce soon.”
