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DS30M Mark 2 30mm Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG)
DS30B Mark 1 30mm Rapid-Fire Cannon
 

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG):
 
The DS30M is a ship-protection system made by MSI-Defence Systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on an automated mount. It was designed to defend Royal Navy frigates from fast inshore attack craft armed with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns or explosives.


Description:
The DS30M Mark 2 system consists of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II on a fully automated mount or manual controlled with an off-mount electro-optical director (EOD). The gun and the EOD are controlled from a remote operator console elsewhere on the ship. The "mount is a single cannon naval mount that is gyro stabilized, electrically operated and self contained gun mounting featuring a choice of cannon, control mode and sights. It has low magnetic, radar and IR signatures and excellent ergonomic availability, reliability and maintainability (ARM)." In theory "the unique dual feed system of the Bushmaster series allows the operator to select different types of ammunition for use against a variety of targets. The safety, reliability and low life-cycle costs of the Bushmaster system added to its overall value." However photographs show only a single ammunition feed.

History:
In August 2005, the Maritime Gunnery and Missile Systems Integrated Project Team in the UK Ministry of Defence awarded MSI-Defence Systems (part of MS International PLC) a contract "to supply a total of 26 ASCG systems for retrofit to the RN's 13 Type 23 frigates as part of the wider littoral Defensive Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) upgrade programme." This contract is worth more than £15 million (US$30.7 million) to MSI. The system is being bought because "Fleet Command and the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Directorate Equipment Capability (Above Water Effect) - DEC(AWE) - have identified a significant capability gap in the RN's ability to defend itself against fast attack craft and 'swarming' fast inshore attack craft threats in the littoral. The latter include powerboats, interceptors, rigid inflatables and jet-skis variously equipped with short-range missiles, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns or explosives."

MSI undertook land-based trials at Eskmeals Firing Range in Cumbria. In mid-2007 MSI delivered the first two mountings, which were installed on HMS Somerset in August 2007, and used in sea trials on gun ranges in the English Channel in starting in early October 2007.

In 2008, a small analysis and management consultancy company CORDA (part of BAE Systems) was "awarded a £300,000 research contract by the UK MoD's Defence Technology and Innovation Centre (DTIC) to assess the level of protection British warships receive from small calibre 30mm guns." CORDA's programme manager said: "What we are doing is looking at the performance of the Royal Navy's 30mm Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) [30mm DS30M] and what can be done to increase the level of protection it provides.'... 'The ASCG system has significantly enhanced capability, but we have been asked to look at how improving tactics or integrating further technology could improve the performance of the system further." The study used "simulator based operator trials and aims to quantify the performance of the entire weapon system when engaging multiple vehicles attacking together in a co-ordinated fashion. Results of the study are expected in early 2009." The trials were at the Maritime Warfare School at HMS Collingwood. CORDA worked in partnership with GE FANUC and BAE Systems' Advanced Technology Centre, in conjunction with the DE&S Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), with Dstl providing technical direction.

Caliber: 30 millimetres (1.18 in)
Shell: 30 x 173mm
Barrel length: 94.88 inches (2,410 mm)
Muzzle velocity: 1,080 metres per second (3,500 ft/s) (HEI-T ammunition)
Effective firing range: 5,100 metres (16,700 ft)

Users:
 
Royal Navy
Queen Elizabeth class Aircraft Carrier
Type 23 / Duke class Frigate
Type 26 / City class Frigate
River class / Batch 2 OPV

Minesweepers + Auxilary Ships

Iraqi Navy
Swiftship class Patrol Boats

Oman Navy
Khareef class Corvette

Royal Thai Navy
FFG-471 HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej
Naresuan class Frigate
LPD-791 HTMS Angthong
Krabi class OPV

Laemsing and Tor class Patrol Boats

Royal Malaysian Navy
Maharaja Lela class Frigate
Leiku class Frigate
Kasturi class Corvette
Gagah Samudera class OPV


Brazilian Navy
A140 NAM Atlântico (ex L 12 HMS Ocean)
Amazonas class Corvette


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DS30B:

 
The DS30B rapid-fire cannon is a 30mm Oerlikon stabilized, ship-protection system created by MSI-Defence Systems and controlled by a single operator.

The DS30B system consists of a marinized, stabilized gun mount which accommodates the Oerlikon KCB 30mm cannon. The DS30B is the predecessor to the 30mm DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun.

Users:
 
Royal Navy
Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer
River class / Batch 1 OPV
Bay class LSD

Minehunters + Auxilary Ships

Australian Navy

Huon class Minehunter

Indonesian Navy
Bung Tomo class Corvette

Lithuanian Naval Force
on Minehunters
 
 

source: wikipedia + other
  
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DS30M Mark 2

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a Type 23 / Duke class Frigate

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a Type 23 / Duke class Frigate

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a Type 23 / Duke class Frigate

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a Type 23 / Duke class Frigate

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a Type 23 / Duke class Frigate

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) aboard a batch 2 River-class OPV

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modified DS30M Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) with quintuple tube-launchers for Martlet LMM Missiles

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modified DS30M Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) with quintuple tube-launchers for Martlet Missiles

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modified DS30M Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) with quintuple tube-launchers for Martlet Missiles

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modified DS30M Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) with quintuple tube-launchers for Martlet Missiles

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a Martlet Missile (LMM) was fired from a modified DS30M Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG)



DS30B Mark 1
 

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer

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DS30B Mark 1 Rapid Fire Cannon aboard a Type 45 / Daring class Destroyer
 
  
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