Rheinmetall / Oerlikon 30x173 mm SkyRanger turret on Boxer. The flat panels on the front and sides are the AESA radar. Combined with Starstreak HVM, 30-40 of these would give he British Army a best of breed SHORAD solution.
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"Named Skyranger 30, it follows the path of the Skyranger 35, the mobile ground based air defence system built around the 35 mm Oerlikon Revolver Gun, which was shown for the first time over 16 years ago. A much lighter solution, 2-2.5 tonnes versus 4-4.5 tonnes, the new remotely controlled turret can be fitted onto the bigger 6×6 wheeled armoured vehicles, and obviously on 8×8 wheeled as well as on tracked vehicles considerably extending the number of potential platforms.
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At this point it is time to engage the threat. “We resurrected the old Oerlikon KCA 30×173 mm cannon used on board the Saab 37 Viggen fighter aircraft,” Vischer said, explaining that starting from a very powerful and already existing weapon, and inserting new technologies, allowed to reach the desired result in a very short time. The new cannon, named KCE, is able to shoot 16 rounds per second, the Skyranger 30 carries 250 ready rounds on one side of the gun, and is fitted with a single muzzle coil allowing programming airburst munitions (until now a three-coil system was used on 35 mm cannons), a further weight saving measure.
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Another key feature of the Skyranger 30 is the elevation, which can reach 85°, allowing engaging threats during their terminal dive. One key element in increasing the kill probability is the ABM round; leveraging the experience acquired with the 35 mm AHEAD ammunition the new 30 mm ABM round carries a total of around 160 tungsten cylinders for a total payload of around 200 grams."
"Compared to the 35 mm, which according to RAD has a maximum effective range of around 4.5 km, the 30 mm reaches 3 km, with pretty similar terminal effects. Thanks to the reduced weight of the gun system and sensors the Skyranger is also able to integrate missile systems that allow it to considerably extend its reach. “We are missile agnostic,” says Fabian Ochsner, underlining that currently talks are underway for adding a laser beam riding missile, however fire-and-forget IR missiles can also be integrated, not forgetting the work being done with Halcon, the EDGE company from the UAE, which is providing its SkyKnight missile to be integrated into RAD’s Skynex. “Such missiles can extend the effective range up to 8-9 km, however they have a minimum engagement range of around 2 km, which is exactly where the cannon is the most effective,” Dr. Vischer explains, therefore the Skyranger 30 allows covering seamlessly all the envelope from very close ranges up to the maximum ones."