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Enabling operational excellence for our customers worldwide.
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As a recognised world leader in ammunition handling, MDSI provides fast, safe and reliable hardware. Many of our systems deliver 300,000 rounds of ammunition — about four years of typical mission activity — before any maintenance is needed.
We also appreciate the need for operational certainty. From 20mm through 155mm, we have developed and fielded lightweight, high-reliability systems on the ground, in the air and at sea.
The ‘serpentine’ bullet flow moves the ammunition along any line from storage to weapon, quickly and reliably. It also maximises the utilisation of available space for ammunition storage.
The volumetric efficiency and form-factor flexibility of linear linkless designs enable multiple bays (ammunition streams) to be merged at very high speed for single or dual-feed weapons.
The US armed forces have taken the upgraded weapon straight into operational theatres. All US helicopters have been retrofitted along with a host of allied nation helicopters. The warfighter has claimed the reliability improvement with our linkless system is >830%.
The highly reliable handling system yields greater than 250,000 MRBF (mean rounds between failure) and removes cumbersome and unreliable links from the system. This solution has become the wave of the future for US and NATO allies for ground vehicles.
The 62 round Ajax and 70 round Warrior vehicles provide the warfighter with a capability to select between round types and reliably deliver within specified time periods.
The AHS is being qualified through an enhanced spectrum of requirements including live field demonstrations.
We work closely with the aircraft and vehicle OEMS, such as Boeing and General Dynamics, to design efficient and reliable systems.
Our automatic loaders are a form of battlefield robotics – highly sophisticated pick-and-place robots capable of handling relatively delicate high explosives. As such they are present on numerous fighting ground vehicles and on pioneering programmes within the US Army’s Future Combat Systems initiative.
At Meggitt, we can provide you with an AHS that is specifically designed for your application. To discuss what you need in more detail, please contact us.
