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Hitfist 25-30 mm Light turret for infantry fighting vehicle
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HITFIST® is a two-man, power operated turret armed with a 25 or 30mm automatic cannon, a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun and two elevation controlled TOW missile launchers (option). The HITFIST® turret is manufctured and marketed by the the Italian Company Oto Melara. Asingle man can fully operate the turret. The low profile of the shell design, the retractable episcopes, the reduced total weight make the HITFIST® turret suitable for installation on wheeled/tracked vehicles air-transportable on C130. In 2004, on June 30, 2004, delivered the first Hitfist 30 lightweight turret modified for the Polish Army's Rosomak (Wolverine) 8x8 armored modular vehicle (AMV), produced by Patria (Helsinki, Finland). Derived from a similar turret for the Italian Army's Dardo tracked infantry fighting vehicle, the Hitfist 30 has been designed for a wheeled vehicle and features a 2,850-kg combat weight and reduced height for transport by a C-130 aircraft. Under a contract awarded to Oto Melara in July 2003, the company will provide 313 turrets. The same contract foresees the beginning of production in Italy and, thereafter, a gradual transfer of technologies to Poland in collaboration with various local industries. Wojskowe Zaklady Mechaniczne (WZM) (Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland), a production plant that is controlled by Polish Ministry of Defense, will carry out the final integration and production coordination. The HITFIST® is also mounted on the wheeled armoured vehicle Centauro in service in the Italian armed Forces. |
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Variants |
- HITFIST® 25 mm: armed with 25 mm automatic gun - HITFIST® 30 mm: armed with 30 mm automatic gun |
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Technical Data |
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Armament |
The main armament is an automatic cannon of 25 or 30mm, electrically controlled for elevation, traversing and firing operations; feeding is through belted roundshoused in two ammunition containers. A 7.62mm machine gun is coaxiallymounted to the main cannon. Two TOW armoured launchers are side-mounted on the turret with remote control (Digital Missile Guidance Set) integrated in the HITFIST fire control system. Four smoke-grenades discharger 80 mm are mounted to each side, on the front of the turret. In the Italian Army, the HITFIST® turret is mounted on the armoured infantry fighting vehicle Dardo. The Polish HITFIST® turret is armed with a single 30mm ATK Mk 44 chain gun and a coaxially mounted 7.62x51mm machine gun. The turrets have provisions for the installation of two anti-tank guided-missile launchers. The fire-control system includes a Kollsman (Merrimack, NH) DNRS-288 day/night sight and incorporates a Galileo Avionica (Campi Bisenzio, Italy) TILDE FC second-generation thermal imager. The self-protection suite includes a PCO-Cenzin (Warsaw, Poland) SSP-1 OBRA-3 automated laser-warning system and six 81mm grenade launchers. The Italian Dardo HITFIST® turret is armed with an 25mm Oerlikon KBA automatic stabilised cannon which has a rate of fire of 600 rounds a minute. 200 rounds of ammunition are carried in the turret ready to fire. Two 7.62mm machine guns are installed on the turret, one co-axial with the main gun. Two TOW anti-tank guided weapon launchers are installed, one on each side of the turret.
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Protection |
The turret is built with ballistic aluminium alloy and additional steel armour plates to reach the required protection level.
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Command and control |
The new HITFIST® fire control system (together with the TOW guidance set) allows engagement of targets by day and night; the electrical, fully digital servosystemsand the line of fire stabilization ensure a high accuracy of fire. Crew consists of two men who sit side by side in the turret: the commander on the left, the gunner on the right.
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Accessories |
The HITFIST® turret 30 mm is equipped with an HITFIST® fire control system including a KOLLSMAN sight with eye-safe laser rangefinder and a GALILEO AVIONICA GEN IIIR camera, two LCD color displays, a meteo and a vertical reference sensor suite and laser warning (option).
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Specifications |
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Armament
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25mm Oerlikon KBA or 30mm MC Donnell Douglas BM II, 2 TWO launcher, one 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun
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Country user
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Italy,Poland
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Designer Country
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Israel
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Accessories
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Fire control system, digital missile guidance set, thermal sight and laser rangefinder
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Operator
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1 or 2
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Armor
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Ballistic aluminium armour and additional steel armour a
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Weight
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2,675 kg
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Training arc
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Unlimited
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Elevation
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Gun: + 60° to -10° Missile: +30° to -7.5°
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Dimensions
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Length, 4,18 m; Width, 2,72 m; Height, 0,82 m
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