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AS90

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AS90Artillery System 90


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Equipment availability was generally high: 90 percent for the Challenger 2 main battle tank and 95 percent for the AS90 self-propelled gun, for example.
The only significant augmentation was to the 3d Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) that doubled in size to field 32 AS90 155-mm self-propelled howitzers and provide the tactical groups for the four battlegroups within the 7th Armoured Brigade; at about 1,000, all ranks, the 3d RHA became one of the largest and, certainly, the most powerful British artillery units ever fielded.
Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Limited, a member of the United Kingdom's GEC plc group of companies, is a world leader in both marine and land systems with emphasis on the design and construction of modern highly sophisticated nuclear submarines, surface ships, and large caliber cannon artillery weapon systems including the towed 155mm FH-70, the newly fielded AS90 self-propelled 155mm howitzer and the UFH.
 
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