{"id":192399,"date":"2009-04-04T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/04\/france-u-k-to-qualify-new-cannon-defense-news\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T11:05:00","slug":"france-u-k-to-qualify-new-cannon-defense-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/04\/france-u-k-to-qualify-new-cannon-defense-news\/","title":{"rendered":"France, U.K. To Qualify New Cannon &#8211; Defense News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img501.imageshack.us\/img501\/4742\/e2f67f47699248ea8c3ff54je2.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img501.imageshack.us\/img501\/6425\/4af412099d954ca2a84b7fdmh2.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>France and the UK are <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4012428&amp;c=LAN&amp;s=TOP\">set to qualify a new 40mm case telescoped ammunition cannon for their armored vehicles<\/a>, and they are looking to be at System Readiness Level 8 (&#8220;Actual System Completed and Qualified Through Test and Demonstration&#8221;) by year&#8217;s end, with the cannon and ammunition qualified some time in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>When I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/neat-tech-telescoping-ammunition.html\">looked at this system last year<\/a>, it looked promising, with a much simplified ammunition feed, no need to eject cases, and more punch in the same volume.<\/p>\n<p>CTA International (CTAI), a &#8220;joint venture of BAE Systems and Nexter&#8221; say that this is compact enough to be a drop in replacement for the Bradley&#8217;s 25mm Bushmaster cannon, but that it will pack the punch of a 50mm cannon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France and the UK are set to qualify a new 40mm case telescoped ammunition cannon for their armored vehicles, and they are looking to be at System Readiness Level 8 (&#8220;Actual System Completed and Qualified Through Test and Demonstration&#8221;) by year&#8217;s end, with the cannon and ammunition qualified some time in 2012. When I looked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1025,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}