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Oct 12, 2022, 34 tweets

1/ This will be a photo thread of some of the things that were on show at #LandForce2022.

2/ First up, some of the AFVs on display. Hanwha's AS21 IFV (1,2) and AS9 155mm SPG (3,4)

3/ Rheinmetall with their Boxer CRV,

4/ KF41 Lynx,

4/ and ACW Wiesel

5/ Thales's StrikeMaster AShM concept (Naval Strike Missiles mounted on a Bushmaster chassis)

6/ and their Hawkei protected mobility vehicle

7/ Lots of drones on display too. Cablex with their Australianised WarMate (1,2) and Flyeye (3,4) drones originally from the Polish WB Group

8/ DefendTex with their D40 UBGL launched drone (1), as well as some armed quadcopter concepts (2,3)

9/ Boeing with a VTOL UAV concept on display

10/ AeroEnvironment with a range of different unmanned systems. RQ-11 Raven (1,2) and Vapor 35 (3),

11/ a VTOL configuration of the Puma drone (1,2) and the larger JUMP 20 (3),

12/ as well as the Switchblade 300 (1,2) and Switchblade 600 loitering munitions (3,4)

13/ Malloy T-650 with BAE StingRay torpedo

14/ Elbit had the Skylark I-LEX (1,2) and Skylark 3 (3) reconnaissance UAVs, as well Skystriker loitering munition (4)

15/ Rafael's SPIKE Firefly loitering munition

16/ Shield AI's V-BAT

17/ Skyborne's Cerberus armed drone (1), with either a Havoc 40mm grenade launcher (2) or Chaos 12ga shotgun (3)

18/ UVision with the HERO 30 (1), HERO 120 (2), and HERO 400EC (3) loitering munitions

19/ A number of rocket, missile and artillery munitions where on show, such as Kongsberg's Naval Strike Missile

20/ The 70mm APKWS (1) and Bonus 155mm guided muntions (2) from BAE

21/ ESSM Block 2

22/ From Deihl, the IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system (1) and SLM interceptor (2), as well as the 2DGMart artillery guidance module

23/ Alongside their VULCANO 155mm (1,2) and 127mm (3,4) guided munitions

24/ Elbit's 155mm Super High-Explosive Uni-Modular Artillery Charge

25/ Lockheed Martin's Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (1), AGM-179 and AGM-187A Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (2), PAC-3 interceptor (3), and a model of an Australianised HIMARS (4)

26/ the ER GMLRS, PrSM and ATACMS missiles (1,2) and Javelin ATGM (3,4)

27/ MBDA with the EMADS anti-aircraft missile system (1) and CAMM-ER interceptor (2)

28/ Enforcer (1,2), Akeron MP (3), and Brimstone (4) guided missiles

29/ A number of 120mm rounds presented by NIOA - M865 training sabot (1), M1028 canister (2), M1002 multi-purpose training round (3)

30/ as well as some 155mm rounds - practice M2000A1, M2002A1 smoke, M2003A1 illumination (1), M0121A1 insensitive HE (2) and M2000A1 HE (3)

31/ mortar rounds of various calibres - 60mm M768 HE / M769 practice, 81mm M889A2 HE / M879A1 practice, 120mm M933A1 HE / M931 practice

32/ Northrop Grumman's AGM-88E AARGM

33/ Rafael's SPIKE family - SPIKE SR (1), SPIKE LR (2), SPIKE ER (3), and SPIKE NLOS (4)

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