Luckily FNSS is one of the few organizations that is responsive to all bloggers so the following information was provided to me.
So any speculation that this was a cooperative build with Rheinmetall was incorrect.CLAW is suitable for installation on a wide range of tracked and wheeled armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), either as original equipment or to enhance the firepower of older platforms. One of the advantages of the remote turrets with respect to conventional turrets is the elimination of the turret basket. This affords more space within the fighting compartment, while the remote turret requires but a minimum level of ballistic protection with the most of the relevant weight fraction being rather devoted to enhancing protection to the fighting compartment.The prototype is armed with Rheinmetall Italy's stabilised 25 mm KBA dual-feed cannon, which is provided with 210 rounds of ready-use ammunition. The empty cartridge cases are ejected outside the turret. The KBA cannon has a maximum cyclic rate of fire of 600 rds/min and the gunner can select single-shot or burst modes of fire. While the prototype Claw is armed with the 25 mm KBA cannon, a number of other weapons could be installed in this turret, including the ATK 25 mm M242 and 30 mm Mk 44 cannon or the Mauser 30 mm MK 30-2 with its air-bursting munition capability.A 7.62 mm MG3 machine gun (MG) is mounted coaxially with the KBA cannon on the right-hand side of the RCT and is provided with 600 rounds of ready-use ammunition. The gun is electromechanically cocked from the user interfacen within the hull.A key feature of Claw is that ammunition for both of these weapons can be reloaded from within the platform under full armour protection.Turret traverse is all-electric through 360 degrees, with weapon elevation from -10 degrees to +50 degrees.The electro-optics (EO) and fire-control system (FCS) have been developed by Aselsan and are integrated into the left side of the forward part of the turret.A meteorological sensor is mounted on the turret roof towards the rear and feeds information to the FCS, which has a full ballistic computation capability.The dual-axis stabilised EO package includes a thermal camera with wide and narrow fields of view, a day camera and a laser rangefinder. This enables the platform to engage targets in most weather conditions with a high first-round hit probability.The autocannon is electronically slaved to the sight and an automatic target tracker is fitted as standard. An independent commander's sight on the roof to provide a hunter/killer capability is offered as an option.The weapons are laid onto the target by the gunner from within the hull of the platform using a flat-panel display with controllers for left and right hand. This display could also be used to provide images from cameras mounted around the vehicle as well as information from a battle management system.
This is a privately funded project and it appears to be one of the better designs out there. I can't wait to see video of it firing but if looks indicate effectiveness then this is a winner.
i like the fact of how it can be mounted on many vehicles and many different types of weapons, its not a one trick pony, its flexibility to adapt to a military's existing weapons systems (like if the US adopted it and used one of the different rounds) makes it even better because it opens up many markets for them but reliability for us to know its designed to work with many caliber of weapons.
ReplyDeleteYou could easily mount that on the current aav platform now where the turret is already located.
ReplyDeletewell what has me excited about this weapon system is that you can take care of things while under armor. the idea of it being mounted on a AAV is just awesome. that would work!
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