via Defesa Global.
CMI Defence of Belgium has trialed its 90 mm Cockerill CSE 90LP weapon system in Portugal mounted on a Textron Land & Marine Systems COMMANDO Select high-mobility 4×4 protected vehicle. The trials and demonstrations were held in first half of January 2014.I think CMI is onto something here.
Comprehensive numbers of 90 mm ammunition were fired mainly from Mecar, including HEAT-T, HESH-T and HE-T rounds. The gun is also capable to fire APFSDS-T, canister and SMK-WP-T rounds, as well as 14.5 mm or 20 mm sub-calibre devices training purposes.
I have never been convinced that wheeled vehicles could carry 105mm and larger guns effectively. 90mm seems to be the sweet spot, although I have heard that the Israeli 76mm hypervelocity gun was a real deal tank killer.
But back on task. CMI is working with everyone that makes vehicles to get their products out there. Have Russian gear? No problem...
A quick easy upgrade that adds tons of firepower relatively cheaply? I can see that.
Oh and it also appears that Textron is not giving the US Army an excuse for not giving its Airborne Forces mobile firepower.
i wonder how permanent or flexible the mount is? if you needed firepower for a mission could you install it relatively quickly but lets say a few days later you didnt need as much firepower and needed to remove it could you? with modularity being talked about so much in the navy why not in these kind of designs?
ReplyDeletelooks like the turret basket simply bolts on, and you could make a mount to add that ability to quickly swap.
DeleteThat being said, this thing looks like it could really find a job in the army's airborne if it wasnt to busy getting raped by the F-35, like the rest of the military.
Unrelated but check this out
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