Orbital ATK Demonstrates Common Fuze for Medium Caliber Ammunition
July 17 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Company Developing a Number of New
Ammunition Types Through Advanced Ammunition Initiative
Outdoor Channel’s “GunnyTime with R. Lee
Ermey” to Highlight Technology
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, gave a close up look at the effectiveness of the
company’s common fuze capability for medium caliber ammunition
fired from its Bushmaster® Chain Gun® family during a demonstration
at the company’s Bushmaster User Conference at Big Sandy Range,
Arizona. Orbital ATK’s common fuze ammunition, used with its M230
Link Fed Bushmaster Chain Gun integrated onto a variety of combat
vehicle systems, will appear on an all new episode of “GunnyTime
with R. Lee Ermey” on the Outdoor Channel beginning July 19.
“The common fuze used in our ammunition demonstrated its
effectiveness and reliability as witnessed by our customers and
partners on the range,” said Dan Olson, Vice President and General
Manager of the Armament Systems Division of Orbital ATK’s Defense
Systems Group. “Creating highly-reliable and safe fuzing for a
variety of ammunition and weapons is one of our company’s strengths
- and it was shown firsthand.”
The developmental common fuze approach was successfully
demonstrated in a variety of applications, including the company’s
proprietary Programmable Air Burst Munition (PABM) for both 30mm
and 40mm ammunition. Once qualified, the Orbital ATK common fuze
will support all requirements for point-detonating,
point-detonating with delay, proximity and air-bursting. In
addition to the flexibility of a single fuze for multiple
ammunition types, the new fuze will bring increased reliability and
reduced production costs due to the economies of scale.
Orbital ATK is developing a number of new ammunition types
through its advanced ammunition initiatives. This includes the 40mm
PABM cartridge and an entire Super 40mm family of ammunition to
include Target Practice with Tracer, High Explosive Incendiary with
Tracer and an Armor Penetrating Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot
with Tracer Round.
The company is also developing an advanced proximity-fuzing
capability for a new round that will provide the company’s M230
Chain Gun with improved sensing of target signatures in
high-clutter environments, combined with an air-bursting
capability. The company will demonstrate the proximity round during
the 2018 Bushmaster User Conference next spring.
Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in
providing innovative and affordable precision and strike weapons,
advanced propulsion and hypersonics, missile components across
air-, sea- and land-based systems, ammunition and related energetic
products.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 13,000 people in 18 states across the U.S. and in
several international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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