Otobreda 127/64

The Oto Melara 127/64 Lightweight (LW) naval Gun Mount is a rapid fire gun mount suitable for installation on large and medium size ships, intended for surface fire and naval gunfire support as main role and anti-aircraft fire as secondary role. The compactness of th gun feeding system makes possible the installation on narrow section crafts. The gun can fire all standard 5 inch ammounition including the new Vulcano long range guided ammounition. Modular automatic feeding magazines allow the firing of up to four different and immediatly selectable types of ammounition; the magazines(four drums,1 ready to fire ammounitions each) can be reloaded while the mount is in operation. An ammounition manipulator system is available to transport projectiles and propelling charges from the main ammounition store to the feeding magazines wich are automatically reloaded. Ammounition flow is reversible, rounds can unloaded from gun automatically. Digital and Analogical interface is available for any Combat Management System, also according to Corba protocol. The 127/64 LW Naval Gun Mounts inludes a Vulcano module acting twofold:

• Programmer for ammounition's fuse and guidance system.
• Mission Planning and Execution for Naval Fire Support Action ( firing solutions, selection of ammounition, definition of trajectories and firing sequences, ballistic computations including standard ammounitions etc.), as a stand alone or in interaction with ship's Network Centric System.