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RapidFire Naval

The RapidFire Naval is the Anti-Air & Anti-Surface Defense gun system already sea proven.

FACTS ABOUT THE RAPIDFIRE NAVAL

Thanks to its powerful and accurate gun and optronic Fire-Control System (FCS), RapidFire Naval is an autonomous or centralised 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.

Surface targets: Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), Fast Patrol Boats (FPB), Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC), sea-skimming missiles, etc.

Adapted to control missions (police, antipiracy, anti-trafficking,…) through warning shot firing capability and to self-defence mission even when docked or moored.

In-service in French Navy, the RapidFire Naval system integrates: optronic Fire-Control System (FCS), remote controlled turret including gyro-stabilised 40 CTAS (Cased Telescoped Armament System), operator firing console, ammunition.

Fire Control System

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

Effective range

Up to 4000m

Drag Adapted to target

Air and ground defence capabilities with real-time selectable ammunition:

Anti-Aerial Air Burst (A3B) integrating hundreds of tungsten pellets
Two types of fused High Explosive General Purpose Round (GPR) ammunition: - Point Detonating (PD) - Air Burst (AB)
Armour Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS) against armoured vehicle penetrates >140mm Homogeneous Armour at 1500m
Target Practice (TP)

Precision and high firepower

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)

Fast into action

Day and night operation
Short reaction time from target detection to firing
Automatic firing proposition upon threat detection
Highly automated: man-in-the-loop only for weapon engagement and firing order

Centralised or autonomous mode

Centralised mode: reception of Target Designation (TD) through the Combat Management System (CMS)
Autonomous mode without any CMS connection
Equal firing performances in centralised or autonomous mode
Only one operator for target identification, weapon engagement and firing