WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- New Zealand's army has taken delivery of four mobile bridge systems from General Dynamics European Land Systems and four prime mover construction trucks from Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles in Germany.
The mechanically launched, single-unit bridge systems are for rapidly crossing gaps such as streams, rivers and anti-vehicle ditches up to 42 feet wide.
A Defense Ministry statement said the rapid gap-crossing systems are part of a wider upgrading of equipment for the army's engineering unit that includes combat earth-moving equipment and water treatment systems.
Procurement of the rapid gap-crossing systems were a joint purchase with Britain's Defense Ministry, the statement said. The two armies bought the same equipment from General Dynamics and Rheinmetall.
New Zealand also worked with Britain when it announced it had purchased 200 trucks from Rheinmetall MAN in a deal worth $111.3 million.
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