 MILNET Brief New Weapons, Q2-07, May, 2007 |
| MILNET Brief New Weapons, Q2-07, May, 2007 |
| Weapon
Acronym |
Who |
Description |
Status |
Advanced Multirole Light
Artillery Gun Capability -- AMLAGC |
S. Africa |
105 mm lightweight towed howitzeer than can be towed behind a 4 ton truck at speeds up to 100 kmh. The specs call for deployment off of two in under two minutes to packup onto tow within three minutes. maximum rate of fire of six rounds a minute for eight minutes at maxi- mum charge; the sustained rate of fire is two rounds a minute. Maximum range at sea level with standard ammunition is more than 24 km, with base bleed shells more than 28 km, and with velocity enhanced long-range artillery projectiles, it can exceed 36 km. | Proposal |
Arjun MBT |
Indian
Army |
58.5 ton main battle tank with
stabilized and rifled 120 mm gun, with both a 7.62mm and 12.7mm
machine guns, capable of speeds up to 72km/h. The gun is manually
fed and fires up to 6 rounds per minute and features a semi-automatic,
computer based ballistic fire control system. |
11 delivered
May, 2007 |
Panzer
Howitzer 2000NL 2 |
Germany (Holland, Italy, Greece) |
155 mm self-propelled gun weighs 60 tons with a range of more than 25 miles, making it the longest-ranged ground weapon in the world, except for missiles. 3 Specifications. | Fielded |
| HMS Astute Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine  |
U.K. Royal Navy |
An extension of the performance
of the Trafalgar Class Batch 1 fleet.. Tomahawk Block IV
(Tactical Tomahawk) cruise missile from Raytheon fired from the 533mm
torpedo tubes, uses TERCOM terrain contour mapping-assisted inertial
navigation system and includes an improved propulsion system and
Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) guidance capability.
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533mm torpedo tubes, and will be equipped with
Spearfish torpedoes and mines. (up to 36). The Spearfish
(wire-guided, active/passive homing head) torpedo with a range of 65km
at 60kt. Astute is fitted with I-band navigation radars.
The sonar is the Thales
Underwater Systems2076 integrated
passive / active search and attack sonar suite with bow, intercept,
flank and towed arrays. Countermeasures suite will include
decoys and Electronic Support
Measures (ESM).-- two multi-function antenna arrays which are mounted
on the two non-hull penetrating optronics masts. Specifications |
|
JetEye |
? |
Laser misdirection anti-shoulder
launched missile protection (anti-MANPAD)
for commercial aircraft. Manufacturer: BAE |
Develop |
Brown Bird RPG Net Source: Popular Science 4 |
U.S. Army |
A small anti-RPG missile that
fires out kevlar nets to entangle incoming RPGs fired at
helicopters. The idea,
"the chopper’s
radar calculates the speed and trajectory of an incoming grenade within
milliseconds. Half a second later, pods of launch tubes on the
helicopter aim and fire between one and eight unguided yard-long
rockets on an intercept course with the grenade. The rocket’s aim
doesn’t have to be precise because each drags a braided steel-cable
parachute woven with Kevlar. In the next second, these fast-opening
chutes inflate to form a series of six-foot-wide bombproof nets,
catching the grenade and dragging it to the ground." 4 |
Develop |
| Full Spectrum Active Protection
Close-in Layered Shield - FCLAS |
U.S. Army |
Projectile based system that
will attempt to detect, track, and provide counter-fire to defeat
incoming attacks on ground or low speed aerial vehicles. "A fully
functional FCLAS system will consist of three components: the
countermunition, launcher, and system controller. The countermunition
searches for, tracks and intercepts incoming threats. The launcher is a
flexible design and has the ability to be adapted to meet the needs of
each platform that utilizes FCLAS. The system controller maintains
central control over the FCLAS launchers and countemunitions. FCLAS can
be easily integrated onto any vehicle platform—coupled with armor it
will provide robust protection against the RPG." 5 |
|
| RPG
Shield |
U.S. Army U.K. Army |
An electronic defense that
renders some RPG warheads to small bits that do not cause significant
damage to the vehicle being damaged. The shield is useless
against heavy warheads such as a round sent along by a tank, but
against some RPGs can be quite effective. |
|
Surveilling Miniature Attack
Cruise Missile -- SMACM |
U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force |
Small and lightweight loitering
cruise missile. SMACM’s tri-mode seeker package combines
millimeter wave (MMW) radio frequency radar, an imaging infrared sensor
and a semiactive laser (SAL) seeker. The three sensors offer an
all-weather capability to quickly categorize targets through data
fusion. The tri-mode seeker provides high combat identification
probability with extremely low false alarm rates against targets.
Article Manufacturer: Lockheed Martin |
Develop |
Low Cost Autonomous Attack
System -- LOCAAS |
U.S. Army |
Un-powered or powered, brilliant
submunitions. The 36 inch long powered system weighs about 90 pounds,
has a miniature 30 pound thrust turbo-jet engine, and a range beyond
100 nautical miles. It is equipped with a laser radar sensor,
sophisticated image processing electronics, full authority flight
control system and multi-mode warhead. designed to attack high
priority mobile or relocateable targets, armored or soft targets with
high precision. The weapon can loiter at an altitude of 750 feet over
the battlefield, flying at a speed of 200 knots for about 30 minutes,
covering a footprint of 25 square nautical miles, and take out
high-priority targets such as mobile air defenses, mobile
surface/surface missile launchers and long range rocket systems. Article Manufacturer: Lockheed Martin |
Develop |
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon
System -- APKWS |
U.S. Army, U.S. Marines |
2.75-inch laser-guided
helicopter rockets designed to hit within two
meters of a designated target from as far away as 5,000 meters. The
idea is to offer a precision, laser-guided version of the Hydra-70mm
rocket now fired from the Army’s Apache AH-64D, Kiowa Warrior,
Blackhawk and the Marine Corps’ AH-1W and AH-1Z SuperCobra attack
choppers and possibly UAVs. Manufacturer: BAE |
Develop |
Maxi-Beam
1 |
U.S. Army |
"design and fabricate a light-based immobilisation system/deterrent device and integrate it with an unmanned aerial system. This will include any necessary medical research on frequency and amplitude modulation of high-intensity light that will cause immobilisation to all those within the beam." | Develop |
