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Case Telescopic Automatic Canon
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The electrically powered Case Telescopic Automatic
Canon operates in a unique fashion packing maximum energy in a small
space. With a length of 3.428 meter, the 40mmx255 caliber gun fires
specially designed cartridges in a unique "Push Through" concept
which extracts the projectile from the case into the chamber just
before firing. The APFSDS-T cartridge can perforate 1500mm of steel
at a range of 1,500m. Its muzzle velocity is 1,500m/s. The HE
fragmentation (GPR-T) cartridge weighs 1 kg (of which 120gr are HE
charge); it can be set to use either point detonation or time fuse
for airburst effect.
CTWS technologies could be utilized in the British FRES and French
Amry EBRC future combat system programs.
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