Lionfish 20 Remote Naval Weapon System RWS Leonardo

Surface Vessel Weapon System
Leonardo Lionfish 20 Remote Weapon System / RWS

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The LIONFISH® 20 is a remotely-controlled, fully stabilized, small caliber naval gun system characterized by long operative range and high rate of fire.

Thanks to its compact dimensions (no deck penetration) and light weigh, LIONFISH® 20 allows providing very small surface vessels with the capability of neutralizing asymmetric surface threats, helicopters and drones, besides to be usable onboard larger vessels as secondary armament.

The LIONFISH® 20 is fitted with the OERLIKON CANNON® 20 mm KAE gun, feed by a 250 ready to fire rounds magazine.
It can fire all types of 20 x 128 mm ammunitions, prescribed by the cannon’s manufacturer, such as: SAPPIE-T, TP-T, AP-T, HEI-T.

The LIONFISH® 20 is remotely controlled through its own Local Control Console and it is able to autonomously determine the stabilized firing coordinates by performing ballistic and target trajectory calculations.

The Electro-Optical Director is constituted of a highly accurate sensors suite (with an automatic tracking functionality) constituted of a daylight camera, an IR camera and a LASER Range Finder.

The LIONFISH® 20 could be also fully controlled by the external Firing Control System by activating a proper switch of the Remote Control Console, in such a case target acquisition, target engagement and firing are performed by the FCS itself.

source: ® Leonardo Defence Systems

Specifications:
Caliber: 20 x 128 mm NATO
Rate of Fire: 100 to 300 rpm, controlled mode / up to 1000 rpm burst mode
Ready to fire rounds: up to 250
Effective range: > 2000 m
Training range: - 155° to 155°
Elevation range: - 30° to +70°
Mass without ammunition: 450 kg
Electro-optics: day camera, IR camera, laser range-finder

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