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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

ASCG enhances Type 23 close-in defence

First at-sea firing trials of the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) new 30 mm Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) system have been successfully completed aboard the Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset.

MSI-Defence Systems was awarded a contract worth more than GBP15 million (USD30.7 million) in August 2005 by the Maritime Gunnery and Missile Systems Integrated Project Team to supply a total of 26 ASCG systems for retrofit to the RN's 13 Type 23 frigates as part of the wider littoral Defensive Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) upgrade programme.

The company is supplying a variant of its DS30M Mk 2 system - which integrates an off-mount electro-optical director (EOD) with a fully automated 30 mm gun mount - to meet the ASCG requirement.

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