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My name is Simon Hay, I'm the Chief Marketing Officer for John Cockrell Defence
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We're a Belgian based company and we're here today to present to the Qatari land forces
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our 1030 turret. It's a lightweight 1.5 tonne multi-configuration turret. It can be set up using a one man, highly armoured, we can add on anti-tank guided missiles, we
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can even provide an amphibious version, very lightweight with a carbon fibre structure
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at about 1.2 tonnes. We have the Mark 44 cannon from Northrop Grumman as the main weapon
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We can have a coax 7.62 and eventually a roof mounted remote weapon station, depending on
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the customers requirements. And it's a very up to date turret with a modern digital architecture and very recently we've
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been testing it counter drone activities. You'll see on the footage we were firing at very small drones at about 1.5 kilometres
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using programmable air burst ammunition. So we're programming the ammunition as it leaves the gun to function at a given distance
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and we're detecting the drones initially through a radar and then picking it up and auto tracking
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through our optical system to provide correct firing solution to defeat the drone
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Because the air burst ammunition, it will function at a given distance but the fragmentation comes backwards
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Well the turret itself is based on our 3000 series turret, of which we've built over 700
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for customers in the Middle East and the Far East and now we have an Indian customer as
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well for the 3000 series. So it's a very proven configuration and what we've done specifically for the medium calibre
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version is to shrink it down to a much lighter variant and we think we are the lightest unmanned
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turret on the market, where you still have access to the weapon system from within the
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vehicle so you can clear blockages or reload the main gun because we have an ammunition
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capacity of around 350 rounds, so you can reload from under armour, which is a very
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important feature in this marketplace. And recently we were present in Doha to do a customer demonstration at the mid-December
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We spent a week and a half doing firing trials very successfully, hitting targets at over
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2.5 kilometres with the 30mm TPT ammunition, which is quite an achievement
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With our digital optical system we have very high precision, very good stability and those
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that have seen our Cochrane IX, which uses the same stabilisation system, we've been
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doing testing recently with the French Army, firing at 120km an hour, fully stabilised
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and hitting targets with a 25mm cannon. So with a 30mm cannon we have even better chances to succeed with high speed interventions
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of that nature. Well this turret we think is the lightest one being offered here today, so that obviously
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improves the mobility of the overall platform. It's a modern turret with digital architecture, already with an artificial intelligence engine
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built in for the auto-tracking of both land and air targets, and we have the capacity
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now to identify land targets and drone targets, so that you could be given guidance as to
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what you should do next as a commander. This is an ongoing development which is artificial intelligence engine based, and using war gaming
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theory, war gaming practice against another artificial intelligence engine, it learns how to survive in different combat environments with different threats around it
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It can identify over 10,000 different types of military vehicle and or soldiers that are
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armed with different types of threats such as RPG-7s. This is also future-proofed in that we have already pre-designed it to be able to be operated
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robotically, so at distance. So this could be on a vehicle that's robotically driven, and we can provide the optics and
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the situational awareness back to the operator who could be 1, 2, 3km away
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So it's future-proofed going forward for the optionally manned platforms, which we think
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will be a requirement in the future, both in the US, in order to have the OMFV program running
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So this turret is designed to be usable in the future because we've already built in
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the capability to be robotically operated, so operated at distance, because we're seeing
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a tendency now for optionally manned fighting vehicles. So you may have a vehicle where you operate with the crew on board, or you let it operate
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robotically with a crew behind. So this could be a Pathfinder scout vehicle that's operated by a master vehicle behind
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We're already set up to do all that, so this is sort of future-proofing it for the next 10 years, 15 years, with a digital backbone and a very high-speed architecture already
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built into the system
