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December 5, 2001

Britain has awarded a three-year $16 million contract to BAE-Royal Ordnance to develop a new family of 155mm artillery shells. These will provide British towed and self-propelled guns with a greater variety of options to deal with various kinds of targets. The program is known as TACAS for Tube Artillery Conventional Ammunition System.--Stephen V Cole