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ATGM launcher. It has the potential of becoming a flagship prod- uct by HSW S.A. in the upcoming years. HSW's President of the Management Board, Mr. Bartłomiej Zając, declared that the com- pany expects to be requested to deliver up to 341 turret systems as such, for the Polish military. The turrets in question are to be fitted, first, onto the Rosomak APCs, and then, onto the Borsuk IFV in the future. Borsuk is another project pursued by HSW S.A. ZSSW-30 also stands a major chance of becoming an export product. Thanks to its modular design, it may be integrated onto any carrier platform. So far, the tests of the turret have had pos- itive results - according to the information leaked to the media. It may mean that we could expect the procurement procedure, regarding the ZSSW-30/RTCS-30 system, to be launched soon, by the Armament Inspectorate. The main armament is the 30 mm Orbital ATK Mk 44 Bushmas- ter II gun. along with a programming unit. Its total length is 3,405 mm, it weighs 156 kilograms. The cannon mechanisms are pow- ered by a chain that is, meanwhile, powered by a 1HP electric mo- tor. In emergencies, the gun may also be crank-operated. The rate of fire is selectable - with single-shot, burst, and 5-rounds burst modes available. The cannon can fire up to 200 rounds per min- ute (120 RPM for the ABM rounds). The spent brass is extracted to the front, with 35,584 N recoil. The gun features a threaded barrel that is 2,701 mm long (L/90), with a muzzle device at the end. Bushmaster features a dual, left-side, link feed system. Auxiliary armament is coaxial mounted 7.62x51 mm UKM- 2000C machine gun. 250 rounds are available for immediate use. Brass and links are extracted via a port in the turret, underneath the container housing the Spike ATGMs. The ATK Mk 44 gun (along with the UKM-2000C) has an azimuth movement range of 360 degrees. The elevation range is from -9 to +60 degrees. The anti-tank weapons come in the form of the dual Spike LR ATGM launcher. The Spike LR ATGM (in individual transport con- tainers) is 1,140 mm long, its diameter is 107/131 mm (missile/ container), and it weighs 13.7 kilograms. It can be used in tem- peratures as low as -37C. The seeker features a 120x120 cooled 10x zoom IR camera, as well as 10x zoom CCD 550x400 camera with FOV of 1.5° x 2°. The minimum range is 200 meters, while the maximum range is 4,000 meters. The missile travels to the targets at 1,000; 2,500, and 4,000 meters in, respective- ly, 7; 5.5, and 26 seconds. The control is either fully autonomous, or it may include the human in the loop - thanks to the optical fiber cable. The guidance is Fire & Forget - then the missile flies to- wards a target of specific thermal contrast, after man- ual designation; or in the Fire-observe-and-Update mode - with the human element in the decision-making chain. In the latter case, in an emergency of cable break, the missile auto- matically goes into the F&F mode. The operator may also utilize a fully manual mode. The warheads of the first variants of the Spike missile featured a precursor - they were able to penetrate 700 mm of RHA. The current Spike LR warhead can penetrate 1,000 mm of steel. It also features a precursor. The fire control system has been developed by the WB Group. It is the most costly of the turret's components. The development of this solution was time-consuming. Three sights act as the pri- mary sensors of the system. The panoramic commander's sight, the primary sight, and the reserve sight - not integrated with the fire control system and utilized in extraordinary circumstances. The GOD-1 IRIS panoramic commander's sight is being manu- factured at PCO S.A.. WB Electronics' engineering team was in- volved in the development of this system. The system's purpose is to be operated in detection, observation, tracking, and target- ing applications, against ground-based and airborne targets, in varying day and night lighting conditions. The system consists of an integrated optoelectronic module placed on a carrier platform that is stabilized in two axes. The system features a mono-im- pulse laser rangefinder, a set of TV cameras, with a light meter sensor, and a cooled thermal imaging system (8-12 μm range). The system is capable of covering a 360-degree sphere, with the elevation ranging from -20 to +60 degrees. A limit has been imple- mented, when it comes to the sensor's movement speed - up to 1.0 rad. per second - 57 degrees per second. The stabilizer's ac- curacy figure is confidential. We know that it remains below 200 μrad (1ơ). The CCD daytime camera system offers wide and narrow FOVs, correspondingly: 10.7° × 8° and 3.3° × 2.5°. The thermal im- aging system utilizes a French sensor coupled with Polish hardware. It can be readied for operation in less than 6 minutes, with 31 www.fragoutmag.com DEFENSE INDUSTRY