The Swiss Army has ordered 48 Piranha 3+ vehicles equipped with RUAG Cobra 120mm mortars, which can fire up to 10 rounds per minute and have a range of 9,000m. The vehicles have a Scania diesel engine ...

October 27, 2017: Romania is modernizing and buying 227 of the Mowag Piranha V 8x8 wheeled armored vehicle. These will be built under license in Romania using a refurbished Cold War era military ...

Swiss Army artillery units will be equipped from 2024 with the latest RUAG Defence 120mm Cobra smoothbore recoiling mortar system on a modified GDELS-Mowag Piranha IV 8x8 APC. Since its Model 64/91 ...

May 19 (UPI) --The first pre-production Piranha 8x8 armored personnel carriers have been delivered to Denmark by General Dynamics European Land Systems-Mowag. The vehicles, in serial configuration ...

The seats are so snug and comfortable, according to one Irish captain, that once one of the eight-wheeled Mowag armored vehicles rolled over with soldiers strapped inside... and they didn't even ...

The first six of the Army's new fleet of armoured personnel carriers arrived in Dublin Port last week and are undergoing initial tests at the Curragh. Forty Piranha III carriers are due to be ...

Following extensive trials, the Swiss Army is expected to place a contract for a new 120 mm self-propelled (SP) mortar system in the next 6–12 months, according to Captain Lars Kristian Lehman of the ...

DON LAVERY TWO major companies are heading for battle in the High Court in Dublin in a row over Ireland's largest ever order for military equipment - an order worth over ?82m. The skirmish centres ...

PIRANHA PURCHASE: Ireland's defense department has awarded MOWAG GmbH, a part of General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems, a $37 million contract to provide 15 PIRANHA 8x8 wheeled combat vehicles ...

Military parade: The parade will feature a fleet of newly acquired Mowag 'Piranha' armoured personnel carriers, writes security analyst Tom Clonan The 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising in 1966 - ...

Romania’s Piranha 5 programme is already facing potential delays as General Dynamics European Land Systems-Mowag (GDELS-Mowag) has yet to deliver the first batch of 30 vehicles, Defence Minister ...