with TEBER-82 laser guidance kits, L-UMTAS laser guided anti-tank missiles, CIRIT 70mm (2.75in) laser guided missiles and 70mm CAT-70 unguided rockets. Other features include optional in-flight refuelling, a ‘latest generation’ Fully Integrated Tactical System (FITS) application, a greater than eight hour endurance and a four hour timeon-station with a four missile war load at 400nm (741nm) from base. Leonardo MC-27J Last but not least, Leonardo’s aircraft division has, over time and not least through the merger with Alenia Aermacchi, developed the MC-27J. As its designation suggests, the type is based on Leonardo’s C-27J tactical transport aircraft and takes the form of a multi-mission capability that is built around a modular roll-on/-off (RoRo) architecture to maximise role flexibility. Missions envisaged for the type include cargo carrying, basic/enhanced command and control and ISR (C2ISR) together with a basic/enhanced gunship capability. In order, the MC-27J cargo configuration mimics that of the standard C-27J, while the basic C2ISR fit - a ventral EO/IR imaging turret/s and a palletised cargo-bay ISR and fire-control (ISR-FC) console - provides persistent area monitoring and mission oversight and co-ordination capabilities. The enhanced ISR-C2 configuration adds battlefield communications/video gateway and enhanced multi-intelligence collection and monitor-
ing facilities to the baseline C2ISR fit, while the basic gunship configuration installs a GAU-23 Bushmaster 30mm cannon. Last but not least, the enhanced gunship package adds a precision guided munition (PGM) launch pallet to the Bushmaster and ISRFC provision. In its full-up state (and as originally briefed), the MC-27J is flown by a crew of five (pilot, co-pilot, two weapon system operators and a GAU-23/PGM gunner) and features a self-defence suite; optional in-flight refuelling; a communications suite which includes a Ku-band (12.5-18GHz) satellite communications capability and a LOS full motion video datalink; GAU-23 and PGM launch pallets; the ISR-FC console pallet; a ‘Spartan View’ sensor fit (made-up of Star SAFIRE 380-HD and MX-15HD EO/ IR imaging turrets); a SAR/inverse SAR/
The armed ISR variant of Airbus’s C295 transport aircraft features four underwing hardpoints for the carriage of weapons.
GMTI surveillance radar; a communications intelligence (COMINT) capability, a radar band electronic support/electronic intelligence (ES/ELINT) system and provision for ‘special payloads’. Looking at the GAU-23 and ISR-FC
Head-on view of the C295 showing under-wing hard points and nosemounted EO/IR sensor turret.
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