Israeli protection electronics firm Elbit Techniques Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE:ESLT) is the main candidate to provide Morocco with 105mm and 120mm turrets for the armored personnel carriers it has procured from the Indian Tata Company, in accordance with India’s “IDRW” web site.
On the one hand, Morocco is upgrading its navy capabilities, and alternatively, it’s interested by growing its manufacturing independence. The contract signed between Tata and Morocco in September 2024 contains native manufacturing of 150 models of the WhAP (Wheeled Armored Platform) 8×8 armored personnel carriers. The contract in itself was a major achievement for the Indian protection trade, as a result of the automobile manufactured by them beat off China’s Kind 08.
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In response to the report in India, the Moroccan military turned to Elbit for the turrets, having beforehand procured Atmos artillery weapons from it in a deal value $370 million. The Atmos system features a howitzer gun that’s able to firing all NATO-approved 155 mm shells and projectiles, with an efficient vary of greater than 40 km with customary projectiles, and in addition affords an prolonged vary with rocket-propelled projectiles. Elbit additionally makes a speciality of turrets, and consequently Rabat turned to it for an answer to WhAP.
The 105 mm and 120 mm caliber is a sort of customary in trendy battle tanks, together with in Israel. Within the battle, for instance, the superior battle tank, the Merkava Barak, has been used for the primary time on a very massive scale. Elbit is concerned in a number of areas, together with the Iron Imaginative and prescient system that permits improved fight in closed areas, but additionally within the 120 mm cannon manufactured by IMI – a subsidiary of Elbit. “IDRW” notes that the combination of Elbit cannons would require the Moroccans to make changes to the venture.
Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on June 3, 2025.
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