

The naval defence operations produce a wide range of automatic naval artillery, rocket and missile launchers and remote controlled small calibre defence cannons. At the moment it's working on the production of 500 GBU-39s for the Aeronautica Militare. In the last decade the company has produced between 9 GBU-31 and GBU-32 JDAMs on license. DARDO CIWS a twin 40mm naval gun mounting.Skyguard "Aspide" Anti-Air missile system.Hitrole Remote Weapon Station for 7.62mm or 12.7mm machine gun or 40 automatic grenade launcher.HITFIST two-man turret armed with a 25 or 30mm automatic cannon and 7.62mm coaxial machine gun (plus two TOW launchers as option).HITFACT three-man turret armed with a 120mm/45 calibre or 105mm/52 calibre gun.
OTOMATIC ANTI AIRCRAFT MOD
OTO Melara Mod 56 105/L14 Pack Howitzer.Puma 6圆 and Puma 4x4 Wheeled Armoured Personnel Carrier.VBM Freccia 8x8 Wheeled Infantry Fighting Vehicle.Oto Melara's land defence operations are part of the Finmeccanica conglomerate.

The combined entity produces the DARDO CIWS, Otobreda 76 mm and Otobreda 127/54 Compact naval guns. On 1 December 2001, the naval artillery division of Oto Melara merged with that of Breda Meccanica Bresciana to form Otobreda. In 1953 the company took the name OTO Melara.īefore Italy joined NATO, Oto Melara produced civil products, like tractors and looms, but quickly returned to the production of weapons. During World War II, mostly heavy guns for battleships were produced. In 1929 the company was renamed Odero Terni Orlando with the abbreviation OTO. During World War I, Vickers Terni produced many weapons with calibre 40 mm and upwards. Investment was also provided by Guiseppe Orlando and Aliferi Odero. Like Chatokay said, you dont need to neccesarily even kill an aircraft for air defenses to win, if you can cause them to drop their ordinance to dodge or spend too long on afterburner. All data handled by the fire control system is related to the fixed vehicle coordinate system.It was founded in 1905 as a joint venture of Vickers and Terni Steelworks, Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando and Cantieri navali Odero. The miniaturised digital computer uses 32bit Motorola 68020 microprocessors, single board computers with dedicated arithmetic coprocessors and a command, control and communications (C3) interface. The Gepard is equipped with a digital fire control computer supplied by EADS (DASA). The system was tested but was not deployed due to financial constraints. The twin Stinger launching system was fitted on the side of the 35mm twin gun on a single unit. KMW developed a missile system for the Gepard, using the Stinger surface-to-air missile system. The Gepard is equipped with eight smoke dischargers installed on either side of the turret. The FAPDS rounds have a muzzle velocity greater than 1,400m a second. The guns are capable of firing a range of standardised 35mm ammunition, including the new FAPDS rounds. Each 35mm gun has 320 rounds of ready-to-fire, anti-air ammunition and 20 rounds of anti-ground target ammunition. The rate of fire provided by the two barrels is 1,100 rounds a minute. The Gepard is fitted with a two-man electric power operated turret armed with twin Oerlikon KDA 35mm guns.
OTOMATIC ANTI AIRCRAFT UPGRADE
For this reason the upgrade programme was managed as a bilateral project.įirst deliveries of vehicles in the upgrade programme were made in 1998, and the programme was completed in 2005. The Dutch version, PRTL 35mm GWI, is based on the same system technology as the Gepard system with the exception of the radar system configuration.
