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2023-10-01

Nexter Spotlights 40CTA, a Modern Gun for Numerous Systems

Nexter, a company of KNDS, recently presented the T40 turret equipped with the 40mm CTA gun system at DSEI in London. This is an Anglo-French system made by the joint venture between Nexter and BAE Systems called CTA International (CTAI).

CTAI is dedicated to the production of the gun and its ammunition. It is reportedly the only company specialising in cased telescoped technology, which allows the 40mm CTA ammunition to be as small as any 25mm round but as powerful as the 40mm/L40 Bofors ammunition. It makes the whole system relatively small compared to its firepower.

The T40 is easy to integrate into the vehicles whose 1:10 mock-ups were shown at DSEI: the VBCI MkII infantry combat vehicle, a special turret on the JAGUAR combat and reconnaissance vehicle, and the land RAPIDFire made for ground and air close-in protection. Both the JAGUAR and the naval RAPIDFire are already in service within the French forces.

Future Warfare Solutions

Nexter also presented its combat-proven solutions for the various needs of any modern army, such as the CAESAR 8x8, its entire range of ammunition and the NERVA robots.

The 8x8 is the heavy version of the company’s long-range-proven artillery system. Thanks to an improved STANAG level 2 armour, an excellent all-terrain capacity allowed by its 8 wheels and 36 rounds ready to fire, it is well-adapted to a Central European battlefield. It has an automatic shell reloading system, whose speed can be configured according to the user’s operating modes (semi-automatic to automatic).

The ammunition displayed ranged from medium calibre to artillery rounds. This included Nexter’s most recent ammunition, such as the SHARD 120mm improved APFSDS and the KATANA 155mm high-precision round.

Lastly, Nexter shed light on the NERVA small robots that address a wide range of missions such as observation, demining, decoy or NRBC detection. For example, the NERVA-S system is intended for fast and long-distance information collection. It is equipped with an HD camera that allows it to operate day and night and is robust enough to be thrown several meters, break a window or be launched from a moving vehicle. With these systems, the company has a 10-year know-how in the field of robotics and is preparing heavy robots for the next decades of warfare.

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