Our turret cannon designs capture learning from no fewer than six turrets featuring the revolutionary CTAS weapon system and share many features. This commonality also extends into the electronic architecture for the two vehicles. Such coherence maximises the cost-effectiveness of design, test, manufacture, support, upgrade and training.
The front of each turret is very similar - the gunner crew station is identical. The main difference is that the Recce version sports a bustle to carry the extra sensor systems required by a scout vehicle.
The turrets make no compromises on fightability or protection and allow either the commander and gunner to carry out most roles - either can operate both guns, for instance. The turrets feature larger hatches to allow the bigger soldier of today - and tomorrow - to exit the vehicle easily in an emergency, even while wearing body armour. They also provide more headroom to protect occupants from mine blast.
Our production FRES and Warrior turrets will build on know-how garnered from no fewer than six related turret integration programmes to integrate the battle-winning CT40 cannon for the Lancer, Sika, Toutatis, MTIP, MTIP2 and FRES Integrated Demonstrator programmes. We have also integrated several turrets on CV90.
This experience led to our unique approach of using alloy armour plate to ensure turret integrity with the powerful CTAS gun and increase protection while minimising weight.
As a result BAE Systems' offerings for FRES Scout and Warrior will give the British Army fighting vehicles which are superior to anything comparable.
If selected, the MoD will make significant cost savings through synergies on BAE Systems’ FRES SV and WCSP proposals, not just on the turrets but right across both programmes - WCSP and each variant of the family for FRES SV including the Common Base Platform.
Commonality extends to:
- Generic workstations for all the driver, commander and technician positions, conferring common look and feel and reducing the training burden for FRES and WCSP
- Screen design
- Safety control panels
- Human factors considerations
- Open scalable electronic architecture
- Common gun control and drives for turrets, WCSP, Scout, Direct Fire etc
- Training solutions
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