Supacat and MBDA are collectively exhibiting Brimstone HMT Overwatch, an idea demonstrator of a brand new tactical functionality for Gentle Forces, at DVD, 21-22 September 2022 at Millbrook UTC, UK. The idea was first unveiled earlier this month at Military Expo. The UK excessive mobility defence car specialist and European missiles group have collaborated to combine MBDA’s Brimstone precision weapon onto Supacat’s HMT car to equip the Gentle Forces tactical commander with the natural functionality to ship precision anti-armour results at lengthy ranges and in quantity. Supacat’s HMT (Excessive Mobility Transport) platform is designed for modularity and gear integration whereas Brimstone’s ‘one missile, multi-platform’ versatile design might be built-in onto helicopters, mounted wing plane (together with quick jets), land automobiles, naval platforms and UAVs.
Phil Applegarth, Director of Supacat, mentioned, “Overwatch creates a potent new functionality for Gentle Forces, combining HMT’s all terrain agility with Brimstone’s precision results, and demonstrates the flexibility of each parts”.
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Mike Mew, UK SBD Director MBDA UK, mentioned: “This Gentle Overwatch idea showcases how we will take an in-service platform and quickly ship an operational functionality that gives a serious lethality enhance to the front-line, whereas studying classes to spiral capabilities for the longer term. This can be a nice UK trade instance of experimentation, supporting Op MOBILISE, accelerating Future Soldier and alignment with the Land Trade Technique”
Brimstone HMT Overwatch offers an all-weather fire-and-forget functionality and with low collateral harm in restrictive engagement situations. It permits for fast and efficient engagement and for enhanced flexibility in mission match functionality choices to repel adversary formations and single level targets. It has a salvo launch possibility to realize co-ordinated results on a number of targets throughout a single mission and contains line-of-sight or non-line-of-sight engagements, third-party focusing on and excessive off-boresight agility. Brimstone additionally offers best-in-class Insensitive Munitions-compliance for security. Brimstone and HMT are every battle-proven with Brimstone reaching over 98% operational success charge in defeating static, transferring and manoeuvring goal units together with MBTs and different armoured automobiles. HMT is operated by British Forces as Jackal and Coyote and globally by quite a few particular forces.
MBDA is the one European defence group able to designing and producing missiles and missile methods that correspond to the complete vary of present and future operational wants of the three armed forces (land, sea and air).
With a big presence in 5 European international locations and inside the USA, in 2021 MBDA achieved income of 4.2 billion euros with an order guide of 17.8 billion euros. In complete, the group provides a spread of 45 missile methods and countermeasures merchandise already in operational service and greater than 15 others at the moment in improvement.
Supacat is the world’s main specialist within the design and improvement of excessive mobility defence automobiles with over 1000 specialist, battle-proven automobiles delivered into service globally. A part of SC Group, it’s an progressive engineering and design firm offering international, defence focussed services and products with workplaces within the UK and Australia. Its agility and velocity allows Supacat to supply and totally help excessive efficiency options briefly timescales. The UK Ministry of Defence’s procurement of Jackal and Coyote automobiles demonstrates the regard by which Supacat’s capabilities and merchandise are held.
