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The turret is designed to mount a 25mm Oerlikon KBA or 30mm ATK Mk44 autocannon. The main armament may mount a co-axial machine gun, a variant allows the operator to aim and fire anti-tank missiles. Current operators includes Italy, Poland and Romania. OTO Melara 25/80 with Oerlikon KBA 25mm (manned configuration).
The original turret was replaced with the new KBA-105 Shkval (‘squall’) remote weapon station (RWS) which was developed for light armoured vehicles to increase their combat effectiveness. This turret system was first displayed publicly at the IDEX 2001 arms exhibition held in Abu Dhabi, demonstrated on the wheeled BTR-3U APC. It ...
Hitfist turret on an Armoured fighting vehicle. Oto Melara Hitfist is a two-man turret, for armored vehicles, developed by the Italian Oto Melara. [1] The turrets are designed to mount a 25mm Oerlikon KBA or 30/40mm ATK Mk44 Bushmaster II autocannon. The main armament may mount a co-axial machine gun.
The BTR-3 [4] [5] is an eight-wheel drive armored personnel carrier developed in 2000 and 2001 by an international consortium. The companies involved in the project include the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau of Ukraine, Adcom Systems of Abu-Dhabi, UAE, and the State Scientific Technical Centre of Artillery & Rifle Arms of Ukraine.
YPR-765 PRAT (Pantser Rups Anti Tank) — tank destroyer armed with an Emerson twin-TOW "hammerhead" turret (similar to the one of the M901 ITV) and an FN MAG machine gun on a pintle mount; crew of four; rear compartment holds a rack with missile reloads on the left, an inward-facing bench seat and various equipment, including an M41 tripod on ...
The M35, known during development as the EX35 and XM35, [1] [2] is an American 105 mm caliber low-recoil tank gun. The M35 was developed for the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps Mobile Protected Gun Program of the early 1980s. It was integrated onto the Marine Corps LAV-105, and the U.S. Army's M8 Armored Gun System and M10 Booker vehicles.
The turret mounts an Oerlikon KBA 25 mm B02 cannon with a dual ammunition feed and 180 rounds of ready use ammo, with another 144 rounds stored in the hull. Mounted to the left of this gun is a 7.62 mm FN MAG machine gun, which has 230 rounds of ready ammo, with a further 1,610 in the hull.
This automatic gun uses a 25x184mm cartridge (longer than the one used by the more common Oerlikon KBA gun) at a rate of 800 rounds a minute. Using four independent guns instead of one multi-barrelled rotary cannon improves reliability. The system is mounted in an enclosed automatic turret and directed by the Seaguard radar developed by ...