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Netherlands. Military light utility vehicle: 504 [54] 504 ordered in 2023 for 11 Air Assault Brigade, with an option for a total of 1,004 vehicles. First deliveries planned from 2025 onwards, Dutch variant assembled by VDL Special Vehicles in Eindhoven. First joined order with the German Army, total 1508 vehicles for €870 million. [54]
See [4] for geographic distribution of coastal defenses and fortresses in continental Netherlands. The listing below do include both army and land-based Navy weapons, but do not include 47mm guns, which are counted as anti-tank guns. Bofors 37 mm, 45 or 50 calibers barrel length : 23 pieces, of them 12 imported and 11 license-produced
Weapons of the Netherlands (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Military equipment of the Netherlands" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Royal Netherlands Army (Dutch: Koninklijke Landmacht, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the Staatse Leger was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the oldest in the world.
The army most often designated this gun as: 'Kanon van 12 cm K.A.'. It was a short bronze breechloading gun meant for indirect fire. K.A. stood for Kort (short) and Achterlader (breechloader). That the gun was made of bronze, was not mentioned, because all army short 12 cm breechloaders were made of bronze.
In 1867, the Dutch army converted its Muzzleloader rifles using the Snider–Enfield breechloading system until a new rifle could be chosen. In 1870, after trials of rifles from companies including Peabody, Remington , Cooper, Comblain, Jenks and Benson-Poppenburg, the Dutch army selected the Beaumont rifle designed by Edouard de Beaumont.
In military service, Dutch M.95 rifles (6.5×53 mmR) cartridges are loaded primarily through the use of an en-bloc clip, similar in concept to the clip used later by the US Army's M1 Garand. With the Ferdinand Mannlicher designed trigger guard / magazine housing assembly, when the bolt is open and fully retracted to the rear the full en-bloc ...
In the Netherlands, the Rijks Geschutgieterij (national gun foundry) could be adapted to cast steel bronze guns. Casting steel guns was not feasible for the Dutch at the time. The first Dutch attempt at a steel bronze gun centered on producing a steel bronze field gun to replace the 8.4 cm Feldgeschütz Ord 1871.