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RAPIDFire is a gun system that offers high precision thanks to its optronic fire control system integrated onto the turret, its advanced algorithms, powerful gun and automatic ammunition management system allowing the best reactivity and efficiency for the operator.
Thanks to its powerful and accurate gun and optronic Fire-Control System (FCS), RapidFire Land is an autonomous or GBAD integrated system. Designed to counter massive attacks performed with simultaneous heterogeneous air and ground threats:
• Air targets: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), loitering munitions, helicopters, Fighters Ground Attack (FGA), cruise missiles, RAM, etc.
• Ground targets: armoured vehicles, Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), etc.
Associated with a high performance 3D radar and a versatile Command and Control (C2), RapidFire Land provides unrivalled anticipation capability.
The RapidFire Land system integrates: optronic Fire-Control System (FCS), remote controlled turret including gyro-stabilised 40 CTAS (Cased Telescoped Armament System) – in-service on French Jaguar and UK Ajax and contracted on Belgium Scorpion armoured vehicles, operator firing console, ammunition.
The effectibe range is up to 4000m.
- Dedicated tracking and firing algorithms - High performance gyro-stabilised optronic sight head: infrared, daylight and laser range finder Optronics enable: • Visual identification • Target tracking • Real-time neutralisation assessment
Air and ground defence capabilities with real-time selectable ammunition: 1. Anti-Aerial Air Burst (A3B) integrating hundreds of tungsten pellets 2. Two types of fused High Explosive General Purpose Round (GPR) ammunition: - Point Detonating (PD) - Air Burst (AB) 3. Armour Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS) against armoured vehicle penetrates >140mm of Homogeneous Armour at 1500m 4. Target Practice (TP)
Versatile concept according to Concept of Operation (CONOPS), with various types of integration:
- Deposable flatrack - truck mounted
- Armoured vehicle (truck or tactical vehicle)
Maximise the neutralisation efficiency while avoiding useless ammunition firing thanks to integration into:
- Air Defence platoon
- Higher Air Defence command chain
- High firing precision for an unequalled Probability of Kill (PK) thanks to sensor/effector colocalisation
- Cost effective engagement (few rounds per target neutralisation)
- The power of a 40mm system with the high compactness of 40 CTAS
- Firing rate up to 200 rounds/min
- 70 ready rounds in the turret (volume for up to 140 ready rounds)and additional ammunition in reserve (up to 280 rounds)
- Rapid deployment (installation and decamp)
- Fire on-the-move capability
- Short reaction time from target detection to firing
- Automatic firing policy proposition upon threat detection
- Highly automated: man-in-the-loop only for weapon engagement and firing order
- Only one operator and one chief operator
You will find many other products from KNDS France to accompany this one, which are associated with the product illustrated.
