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1. ASP-30 30mm Autocannon
Mounts on existing AFVs
Lethal to enemy troops,
vehicles, aircraft, buildings
Shoots same ammo as
Gas-operated, Easy to AH-64 Apache, AV-8B
maintain, clean, assemble, Harrier II
dissassemble

2. JAVELIN FIRE/FORGET FLIR
MISSILE
Kills all tanks
“Fire & Forget”: by top-attack
missiles guides to 2 KM
itself to target
using infared
Command
Launch Unit
is FLIR Destroys
thermal buildings,
imager bunkers,
capable of aircraft by
detecting direct-
enemy heat No backblast firing attack if
signatures signature selected

3. Combined ASP-30 autocannon/Javelin
mini-turret
Small turret gives
under 20-ton AFVs like
M113A3/4s, Wiesels:
Shoot-on-move, thermal night cannon fire to
destroy light armor, aircraft buildings, bunkers,
suppress/kill area targets/infantry
Point/shoot/kill, thermal night-fire, signature-less
missile to kill point targets to include ANY tanks,
helicopters, buildings, bunkers

4. ASP-30/Javelin mini-turret does not
smother dismounting infantry in the
back of the AFV
30mm autocannon does not
require infantry buttoned-up to
fire like BFV M242 25mm does
Javelin ATGM no large backblast
to force infantry to button-up
Mini-turret does not intrude on Infantry can fight heads-
troop volume in vehicle body
out, situationally aware
Provides FLIR surveil/target
acquisition running on vehicle
Low-Cost upgrade
power
makes every AFV
Remote firing when buttoned-up a tank/air/building
killer