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Leonardo HITROLE Light Remote Weapon Station for wheeled and tracked combat vehicles 12606164.
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Eurosatory 2016
Defence & Security International Exhibition Official News online with Editorial and Web TV Paris, France 13 - 17 June 2016 |
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Leonardo HITROLE RWS at Eurosatory 2016
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At Eurosatory 2016, the Italian Company Leonardo presents an LMV Light Mutirole Vehicle from Iveco fitted with the HITROLE light RWS (Remote Weapon Station) armed with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun. Due to its light weight and innovative design. HITROLE* Light can be easily installed on the roof of all types of vehicles including Utility Vehicles, both tracked and wheeled, up to Main Battle Tanks as secondary armament. No penetration of the hull is required.
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 LMV Iveco fitted with a Leonardo HITROLE light remote weapon station at Eurosatory 2016, the international land and airland defence and security exhibition in Paris, France. |
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The Leonardo HITROLE® Light is a state of the art lightweight Common Remote Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) that can be armed with 7,62mm or 12,7mm Machine Guns (MG) or a 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher (AGL) to perform multi-role tasks like surveillance, patrolling in urban environment, border security, counter-sniper and asymmetric missions.
The weapons are primarily stabilized on two axis, and a universal ammunition box for the different calibers is fitted on the mount. The HITROLE® Light Fire Control System (FCS) consists of a modular sighting system including a Day TV camera, an Infra Red (IR) camera for night vision and an eye safe Laser Range Finder (LRF). The HITROLE® Light FCS architecture is open and provides growth potential for system upgrade. Both sighting system and firing are computer assisted and operated from a protected position inside the vehicle through a multi function display and joystick. The Gunner is assisted by a Fire Control Computer (FCC) with ballistic and cinematic computation as well as an auto-tracker. The digital servo system is based on Digital Signal Processing technology. The HITROLE® Light is designed to minimize power consumption in order to grant a very long mission period and it is EMC compliant to MIL-STD-461D. In an emergency HITROLE* Light can be manually operated. |
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 Close view of the Italian-made Leonardo HITROLE Light Remote Weapon Station armed witha 12.7mm heavy machine gun. |