Order given for 20mm ammunition

[ErnstBlofeld]

UPI:

Alliant Techsystems of Minnesota has received a second contract option from the U.S. Army for multiple variants of 20mm PGU ammunition.

The company said the original contract with the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Contracting Center, in Illinois was signed in 2008. If all options under it were exercised, the agreement would be worth more than $170 million by 2013.

Under the option, ATK will produce PGU-27A/B Target Practice rounds, PGU-30A/B Target Practice-Tracers, PGU-28A/B Semi-Armor Piercing High Explosive Incendiary ammunition, a PGU-28A/B SAPHEI and PGU-30A/B TP-T linked configuration, and a PGU-27A/B TP and PGU-30A/B TP-T linked configuration.

The cartridges are used by the U.S. Air Force's F-15 and F-16 fighters. They are also used on U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps F-18s and the Marine's Cobra AH-1 helicopter gunship.

ATK said its Integrated Weapon Systems Division in Mesa, Ariz., was awarded the contract and will produce the ammunition at its facility in Independence, Mo.