Rheinmetall test fires its 35 mm Revolver Gun Mk 3 against UAV swarms

摘要

Rheinmetall has recently tested its 35 mm Revolver Gun Mk 3's capability to engage unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. The tests were conducted on the Ochsen-boden firing range in Switzerland on 14-18 June. Gerson Jaklin, marketing and sales manager at Rheinmetall Air Defence, said the gun was mounted on a Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) HX2 6×6 truck with an adaptor plate for easy access to the weapon. With 252 ready-to-fire rounds and a rate of fire of 1,000 rds/min, the Revolver Gun Mk 3 can engage four targets at once. Using a Ku-band tracking radar installed on the turret to align it for greater accuracy, it fired 18 rounds of Advanced Hit Efficiency And Destruction (AHEAD) air burst ammunition at a swarm of eight octocopter UAVs at a range of 800-900 m. The version of AHEAD used was the PMD 428 round with more than 600 rather than the usual 152 subprojectiles.