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Hi, I'm Major Jim Roberts and I'm in the engagement and communications team of the British Army
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This is the British Army showcasing its future soldier vision with its physical equipment
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and demonstrating our network integration that we're looking to do in the future
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Some really good examples of that here. We're using our Leonardo partners in industry
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to demonstrate some connectivity with our aviation platforms. So you can see behind me, we have the Wildcat helicopter
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And then further in the background, we also have the new attack helicopter we're buying
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the Apache A864 Echo. We've also got the watchkeeper drone and other assets
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Here you can see the Apache behind me on here. What we're actually demonstrating at DCI-21
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is a new capability for the first time We're looking at digital communication between the Apache, an unmanned aerial vehicle and the Wildcat
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We're not replacing the Wildcat or the Apache with unmanned vehicles. We're using them to either do flank protection, look in the deep or send them somewhere where we're a little bit further harm's way where they're disposable
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The demonstration of the Wildcat and the Apache also links in with Bowman, which is our ground radio net
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So for the first time we have an airnet, you're using Link 16, and the ground net of the Bowman of 5.6 upgrade
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means that we now can actually see what's happening in the multi-integrated domain
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Our mere cognition is on the booth of Belgian company FN. Erstal in London for the SEI 2021
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And we have the privilege of giving you an exclusive presentation of the new ultralight machine gun designed and manufactured
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by FN Erstal, the FN Evolis. FN is a world reference in my
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machine guns. We have the heavy machine gun M2, QCB. We have the medium machine gun MAG, the light machine
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gun Minimi, FN Minimi, in two calibers, 556. And we are very proud to add an ultra-light machine
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gun to that range The FN Evil is in 556 NATO caliber and 762 NATO as well Its design is to have the weight the ergonomy of an assault rifle to have the mobility the speed of an assault rifle
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but with the belt-fed function, with the capacity of extensive, with high firepower, like a machine gun
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Both of the machine guns, F&Evalist in 556 and 76 NATO, have almost identical handling
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A unique feature on these machine guns is the continuous top rail
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With the F&Evalis' long and uninterrupted top rail, you can fit your optical sight with its specific eye relief on the perfect position
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and still have enough place for added sighting systems for night combat
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To have this long and uninterrupted rail, we have placed the feeding mechanism on the side of the weapon
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So this is a patented lateral feeding mechanism. It's easily accessible for right-hand and left-hand users
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And with the convenience of after having fired all of the rounds
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not only the last case, but also the last link is ejected
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So that avoids or makes it unnecessary of the action of swiping out the last link
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You're immediately ready for a reload and a new belt. Today, the Belgian-based company has pushed ahead a development of the development of the development of the development of the development of the development of the development of the development of the last link
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the Belgian-based company has pushed ahead the development of the digital suite that now allows
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the integration of FN-Eirstal and third-party's equipment onto rotary and fixed-wing airborne platforms
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the FN-airborne Extended Digital Suite. Based on the initial infrastructure, the FN Airborne
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Extended Digital Suite allows airborne platforms to widen the choice of integrated airborne-fixed
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forward firing weapons solution with unprecedented firing capabilities. Besides the point 50 caliber machine gun in the FN Digital Pod lightweight rocket launchers available in 7
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12 or 19 tubes allow a mix of 70mm laser-guided and or unguided rockets such as
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FZ 231 from Dallas, Belgium, during metric accuracy at extended range exceeding 7 kilometers on static
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targets to defeat soft and light armored targets The FN Airborne extended digital suite also accept EOIR equipment such as the ultra electro system Uruflee 410 from Saffron incorporating up to 10 sensors
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The FN Airborne extended digital suite allows the integration of multifunctional displays
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such as the MDU-268V2 display from Seotech, used to select the armaments and display the digital video from the EOIRR
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My name is Daniel Engblum and I work as a technical project manager
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So what you see behind me here is the Dutch MLU, the midlife upgrading
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It's basically a Mark 3 chassis with a new D-Series turret. The main upgrade with this turret is the ergonomics of the turret
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This has quite a big improvement in that area where the gun is moved forward
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allowing better interaction between the gunner and commander. We are also installing raised electro-optical sites
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to allow the commander to have better situational awareness. And we are installing both anti-tank guided missiles
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and an active protection system. This program is for upgrading the Dutch army's inventory of CV-90s
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So on contract we have 122 vehicles to be upgraded with this turret
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changing from the steel tracks you see behind me to band tracks, reducing the vibration, reducing the load on the crew
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and also the fatigue and improving the life expectancy of components installed in the vehicle
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My name is David Buckley. I work for BAE Systems, Lange UK
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and I'm in the business development management, small arms ammunition. Today I'd like to show you are lightweight 556 ammunition
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There's a big push to reduce the weight and the burden on the soldier. The BAE Systems has developed a 556 lightweight K-8 ammunition
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ammunition made from stainless steel. The advantages is that we can reduce the weight of the
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ammunition all up by about 26% and using the stainless steel we can increase the internal volume
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inside the case, the internal capacity inside the case by between 12 to 15%. This means that you can
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use better, are more propellant inside the case and therefore increasing the performance
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and the range of the ammunition So no only are you reducing the weight you also increasing the performance I Stephen Bynes and I a lead engineer working with our electric products business at BAE Systems At the show we are talking about the T650 Heavy Lift Uncrued Aircraft System Concept Vehicle
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It's got a class leading 300 kilogram payload capacity and is an all-electric vehicle which we're pleased to announce at the show this week that we'll be developing with Maloy Aeronautics
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A versatile vehicle of this type has many potential applications. You can see beneath the vehicle
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that we have the stingray advanced lightweight torpedo. We've also got other products at BE system like the Archerfish
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expendable mine neutraliser for maritime mine countermeasures, but we're also exploring many other opportunities such as casualty evacuation
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humanitarian aid and also military logistics, so moving items from a ship to a ship or from a ship to the shore
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You can see beneath the vehicle that we have the stingray, advanced lightweight torpedo we've also got other products at BE system like the
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orchard fish expendable mine neutralizer for maritime mine countermeasures but we're also
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exploring many other opportunities such as casualty evacuation humanitarian aid and also
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military logistics so moving items from a ship to a ship or from a ship to the shore
