I'm John Perry. I am with the Weapons Systems Organization out of B A Systems
Uh We are here today uh displaying and presenting to the customer
some of our advanced capabilities and electric weapons. What we have right here is a model of the electromagnetic rail gun that we are co
developing with the US Navy to bring the next generation of naval weapon gunfire to the fleet
The main capabilities are you completely remove uh the propellants from the gun weapon system and you're using pure electrical
current to accelerate a projectile to muzzle velocities that you cannot achieve with conventional propellants
You're also improving the safety of the weapon and therefore the ship by removing those energetics from the system
And you're also reducing logistics because you don't have to move the propelling charge through the fleet to the ship and to the weapon on
display. Here, we have the hyper velocity projectile also called HVP, which was originally developed for the electromagnetic rail gun
And we're showing here the projectile in the SBO that creates the form factor and fit to the electromagnetic
rail gun. But the Navy is also looking at integrating the exact same projectile into the Mark 45 5 inch gun as well as
Army and Marine Corps, 155 millimeter caliber guns. So we're using the exact same aerodynamic shape and projectile and we're able to fire
it out of three different gun weapon systems. The projectile is multi mission
It has modular warheads and modular guidance system. So it allows you to do small boats
uh fast attack craft, cruise missiles and air defense, even ballistic missile defense
You can see here the full mission multi mission capability from a single projectile being fired in this example from the Mark 45 which is
on every destroyer and cruiser within the US navy fleet. So
this is the Mark 45 mod four which is the latest most compact uh five inch caliber system worldwide
We have over 100 and 60 of these systems in fleets across the world currently in operation with 12 different navies
This version that we're showing also incorporates an automated handling system which we're developing for one of our international customers
It allows you to completely remove sailors from the system so they no longer have to move and store and replenish the gun manually
You can use full automation and it's modular so it's adaptable to various ship configurations and displacements
It also accommodates both extended range guided munitions as well as ballistic ammunition
We have the Mark 110 which is a 57 millimeter uh naval weapon currently deployed on both versions of the latal combat ship and
also the Coast Guard's uh national security cutter. And it's slated for the Coast Guard's uh offshore patrol cutter as well
Uh, over here we have the three p programmable ammunition. It's ballistic ammunition but highly effective with the programmable fuse
And what we have in development over here is what we call the ORCA
which is a precision guided munition, which has a multi mode seeker on the front and truly makes mark 110 A one shot
one kill weapon system B A systems is here presenting at the surface Navy association with both offensive and defensive weapons systems
to support the US Navy's distributed lethality or fighting concept