"It's real, it's here." Elbit shows off "combat proven" Sigma mobile Howitzer at AUSA Global Force

My name is Luke Savoy. I'm the CEO of Elbit Systems of America

If anything present day has shown us is that affordable mass is key

and you can't get more affordable than artillery. In terms of the cost per shot and rounds downrange, artillery remains it

Sigma provides more volume, further downrange, faster, and continuously than anything out there today

It is an artillery platform designed by artillery people. I'm an Air Force person, but I flew an airplane that had artillery pieces on it, in terms of the 105mm on the AC-130

Through and through, from myself to the design team, our company believes in the power and the capability of artillery

but most importantly, meeting the mission set of the warfighter, and truly believe in the capability and not letting our friends down

The one thing we like to relate to people is it's real. It's sitting here right now. I actually drove

it off the line. We brought it here to AUSA, seven and a half hour drive from our plant in South

Carolina, but that it is real. And then when you walk around it, it's the details of how you load

charges in it and all the nuances of the things that we have provisioned there. It is how you do

the reloading. It is all the scalable degradation that is built into the turret

platform. It's the survivability of it. It's the drivability of it. But it is the

fact that it is real. It is not aspirational. It is not some future promise It is not some dream It a thing that is a reality today and is combat proven Sigma isn just American made it is American And that supply chain through and through

from a vehicle that comes to us from Oshkosh, to all the internal components

to it being assembled fully in Charleston, South Carolina. The supply chain from the taillights, to the turn signals

to the latches that are on, the cabinets on the outside of the vehicle, to the tires

it is through and through an American product. What's important in the modern battlefield as well

is that your supply chain is secure. inside the homeland, we do not have external dependencies that could be disrupted when we

have to mass produce things. Assured deliveries to customers means assured delivery of supply chain

to your assembly plants, and that's what Cigna provides, a secure supply chain established and

proven in the United States. Arsenal of freedom is a key national priority, building it here by

Americans for Americans. Secondly is the security and the assurity of giving the warfighter what

they need, when they need it, and being in full control of the conditions to do that. That means

full visibility and access to your suppliers, understanding their dependencies. All that is

critical to maintain schedule, maintain budget, and provide a capability when you say you will

So an important thing also about a US-based supply chain and any on-shoring activity is learning the

lessons with your supply chain. We've done that. We're in full rate production. We are a risk-free

solution from a supply chain perspective, because we've been doing it and we're at full rate production today in the U.S

Anywhere from 24 to 48 vehicles a year in our plant with no real structural changes to where we're at

We have the physical space to expand. Our suppliers have the ability to scale and expand

and we ready to deliver even more today than we are One of the most important partnerships we have is with Oshkosh We developed the MAP platform on their 10x10 years ago

We have proven it out, tested and delivered it. It is a proven platform with also a deep US-based supply chain of its own

It's a very tight relationship with Oshkosh and just proves you can't get more American than South Carolina and Wisconsin

So the 10x10 is very important. It's actually light on its feet. There are 10 opportunities when you're off-road for a wheel to gain traction and maneuver

It's a very, very, very flexible and stable platform for shooting what is the largest artillery piece in the U.S. arsenal at 155 millimeters

The 10x10 is in full-rate production. It's delivered early to need to us today

And also proven track record for operating off-road and also, more importantly, on-road

Able to get places fast. I think that a very important thing when we talk about counter battery is not only the ability to

end place, shoot, and displace and move, but it's also to be unpredictable to where you are at

Our 360 shooting capability also enables us to defeat counter battery because we don't have to

position the vehicle a certain way to shoot down range. We have three crew members, so reduced

number of people means reduced exposure. They don't ever have to leave the cab. The system is fully

automated in the back. The fact that we have 40 rounds also at max charge

so they don't have to get out for even reloading. The time between reloading is much further apart

So the survivability of that crew, the comfort of being in the cab

the protection of them from the system itself and external threats, and then the ability to provide persistent engagement downrange That is an incredibly important aspect of the life cycle price of this is the ability to use the ammo that is present today

Having the compliant J-Mail breach, having the ability to use US-based charges

having the ability to use US-based ammo, and already being compliant at the breach

to be able to use innovative new rounds means lower cost. It's ready for those upgraded and those capabilities

and at the same time, able to use all the material we have available today in the United States

The Sigma's rapidly deployable, able to be transported on a C-17 anywhere in the US

and be ready and fighting moments after getting off of the jet

I think the important thing about a vehicle of this size is we are not at the constraints and the limit

of what we can do on this vehicle. the real estate for additional capabilities

whether that is launched effects, whether that is active protection equipment. Plus we designed this digitally

using a digital twin concept, which means we are ready to modify

and ready to expand this with more capability. And in top of that, because of our active electronic management on the platform

for our power management, we have a lot of excess capacity for additional power for capabilities

Being able to power electronic systems far beyond what is currently on the platform today

There is no solution that is less risky than Sigma. Made in the United States today

at full rate production today, with a US-based supply chain. Period. Dot