BAE Systems To Supply U.S Navy With Advanced Gun Systems

12:00 AM, November 29, 2012
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BAE Systems has announced it has received an $80.3 million modification contract award from the U.S. Navy to deliver two Advanced Gun Systems or AGS for the latest in the Zumwalt class destroyer fleet. The company stated that this contract marks the third destroyer to receive AGS applications and brings the total funding of the initial contract for this ship, first awarded in October 2011, to $149 million. BAE Systems said it is a 155mm, vertically loaded gun mount that is capable of storing, programming and firing the Long Range Land Attack Projectile or LRLAP. It is a fully automated weapon system that can fire 10 rounds per minute with ranges greater than 60 nautical miles. The AGS rounds are drawn from a fully-automated, below-deck weapon handling and storage system holding up to 300 rounds.

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