High-tech FCS offered for Canadian ACV program

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Computing Devices Canada is combining elements of its Advanced Land Fire Control System (ALFCS) technology demonstrator with the Low-Profile Turret (LPT) being developed in the US by its parent company General Dynamics. The LPT FCS system is part of the Armored Combat Vehicle (ACD) design which General Dynamics and General Motors Diesel Division are pitching in the Canadian military's program to replace its Grizzly and Cougar armored vehicles. The ALFCS features a 32-bit open architecture fire control electronics unit and a high-accuracy laser-warning receiver. The LPT incorporates an inverted M68A1 105mm gun with a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun.

Canada, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Turrets, Mounts & Carriages, Electronic Fire Control NEC, Fire control systems (Gunnery), Computing Devices Canada Ltd., ALFCS, Advanced Land Fire Control System, LPT, Low-Profile Turret

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Multi-barrel launcher has warlike potential

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The Indian Border Security Force Tear Smoke Unit (TSU) has introduced the new Agni Varsha multi-barrel grenade launcher for riot control. The seven-barrel Agni Virsha features more accessible loading mechanisms with automatic cartridge extraction and an electrically initiated firing system that provides single-shot or fully variable salvo firing modes. The grenade launcher is also compatible with 37-38mm grenade natures, one with tear smoke (CN) and the other with flash/stun composition. The weapon can also cover a 100x60-meter area with the use of a standard single-cell grenade with a maximum range of 135m fired on a seven-round salvo.

India, Launchers & Parts NEC, Missile launchers, Agni Varsha

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Accurate yet cheap rocket challenges short-range ATGMs

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Israel Military Industries' Rocket Systems Division touts its shoulder-launched Shipon infantry weapon as a less-costly, but more accurate, substitute for guided anti-tank missiles with short-range capabilities. The Shipon is a baseline 96-millimeter-caliber rocket equipped with a dual shaped-charge warhead that can penetrate 800-millimeter steel armor and explosive reactive armor. The Shipon also has a fire-control and sighting system, which integrates a laser system and a ballistic computer, that enables the infantry weapon to have a target-hitting probability of 50% from a 600-meter distance.

Israel, Rockets, Missiles, Israel Military Industries Rocket Systems Div., Shipon

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