Canadian Defence Selects Selex for Linaps Gun Mounted Nav System

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by Staff Writers
Edinburgh, UK (SPX) Mar 09, 2006
SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems working together with BAE Systems Land Systems, has secured a contract with the Department of National Defense (DND) for six LINAPS Gun Management Systems (GMS), plus spares, for their M777 Howitzers currently deployed in Afghanistan.

The contract will see the LINAPS Gun Management System fitted to the Howitzers and will provide the Royal Canadian Artillery with a truly, 21st century, mobile, rapidly-deployable, indirect fire capability.

The LINAPS GMS, which is manufactured in Edinburgh, UK by Finmeccanica's defence electronics company, SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) is a revolutionary automatic navigation and pointing system, that is battle proven and has been in full service with the British Army for 5 years.

The LINAPS GMS will provide highly accurate pointing and navigation information to the M777 gun crew and will facilitate a digital interface with the Canadian battle management command and control system. Equipment deliveries, installation and training will commence in March 06.

The M777 Howitzer was designed and built by BAE Systems, Land Systems in Barrow In Furness UK and Hattiesburg Mississippi and the Canadian Department of National Defence took delivery of the six M777 Howitzers in November 05.

Ian Crozier, LINAPS Head of Sales and Marketing for SELEX S&AS said: "LINAPS GMS is incredibly user friendly providing troops with a reliable, accurate, easily deployed and fully flexible pointing and navigation system which is operational under all weather conditions and at all times of the day or night. We are delighted that we were able to demonstrate to our customer that our system is a robust and practical solution for today's artillery forces. We hope that this contract will be the springboard for many more export sales opportunities in the future."

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