{"id":54620,"date":"2024-01-24T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54620"},"modified":"2025-01-24T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:20:13","slug":"ampv-c-uas-the-new-combat-vehicle-of-bae-systems-and-moog-to-shoot-down-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/24\/ampv-c-uas-the-new-combat-vehicle-of-bae-systems-and-moog-to-shoot-down-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"AMPV C-UAS, the new combat vehicle of BAE Systems and Moog to shoot down drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is being seen in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, drones have become a very serious threat to armored forces.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/02\/flakpanzer-gepard-the-german-vehicle-that-fights-against-russian-drones-in-ukraine\/\">Flakpanzer Gepard, the German vehicle that fights against Russian drones in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/30\/ukrainian-himars-missile-launchers-destroy-the-s-400-the-best-russian-air-defense-system\/\">Ukrainian HIMARS missile launchers destroy the S-400, the best Russian air defense system<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Various weapons systems have been appearing for some time to combat this threat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baesystems.com\/en-us\/article\/bae-systems-armored-multi-purpose-vehicle-prototype-successfully-fires-counter-unmanned-aircraft-system-during-live-multi-scenario-demonstration\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday BAE Systems and Moog presented an armored vehicle to shoot down drones on the battlefield: the AMPV C-UAS<\/a>, publishing a video that shows testing carried out with its prototype at the Big Sandy firing range in Kingman, Arizona:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CombatInnovations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CombatInnovations<\/a> like the AMPV C-UAS are transforming the future of battle for Soldiers. Don\u2019t miss the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#news<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMPV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMPV<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4AyuoumGLT\">https:\/\/t.co\/4AyuoumGLT<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1nTh16Blih\">pic.twitter.com\/1nTh16Blih<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BAE Systems, Inc. (@BAESystemsInc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAESystemsInc\/status\/1749845705282228561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems has noted that <em>\"<strong>the AMPV C-UAS prototype demonstrated the ability to accurately detect, track, identify, and defeat or disable stationary and moving aerial and ground targets<\/strong>. The exercise displayed the turret engaging with ground targets and utilizing <strong>a slew-to-cue capability to target both stationary and moving small drones with 30mm proximity rounds<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53485472490_77463e70ec_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The C-UAS is based on the AMPV (armored multi-purpose vehicle) chassis, which has been chosen by the US Army to replace its fleet of aging M-113 armored vehicles. <strong>The AMPV is basically a turretless version of the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong>, with different variants: M1283 general purpose, M1284 medical evacuation, M1286 command, M1287 mortar carrier and M1285 medical treatment. In May last year, <strong>BAE Systems published this video showing the AMPV program:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMPV: The Future of Battle\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hVsU94_gsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The C-UAS variant of the AMPV presented yesterday carries a Leonardo DRS Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) turret<\/strong>, which includes a 30 mm XM914 cannon, a 7 mm M240 machine gun .62 mm and eight Stinger short-range surface-to-air missile launchers, in two mounts of four launchers each.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53485203018_2722728c94_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The C-UAS detection system includes four<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leonardodrs.com\/what-we-do\/products-and-services\/multi-mission-hemispheric-radar\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Multmission Hemispheric Radars (MHR)<\/a> by Leonardo DRS (below these lines), an AESA 4D pulse Doppler radar. It is a solid-state, non-rotating radar, with <strong>120\u00ba azimuth coverage for each radar and electronic countermeasures (ECCM)<\/strong> capabilities, in order to avoid electronic interference.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53485202983_032497f9f9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video published yesterday by BAE Systems shows not only the anti-aircraft capabilities of the C-UAS<\/strong>, but also its capabilities against ground targets, allowing multiple combat uses for the same vehicle in different environments. <strong>The C-UAS could serve to occupy the segment of vehicles such as<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/02\/flakpanzer-gepard-the-german-vehicle-that-fights-against-russian-drones-in-ukraine\/\">the already veteran Flakpanzer Gepard<\/a>, a short-range anti-aircraft system that is being used quite successfully by Ukraine to shoot down drones and missiles.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: BAE Systems.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is being seen in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, drones have become a very serious threat to armored forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11548],"tags":[21002,21003],"class_list":["post-54620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-armament","tag-ampv","tag-ampv-c-uas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}