The Mobile Gun System is an eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle mounting a 105 mm tank gun, derived from the Mowag Piranha. It is being considered for adoption into service by several countries, including the United States and Canada. An armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle, equipped with protection against hostile attacks and often mounted weapons. ... Panzerkampfwagen IV with long-barrelled gun ISU-122 A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. ... Piranha-derived LAV25 in USMC service Canadian Piranha-derived, six-wheeled Cougar AVGP, with Scorpion tank turret (76 mm gun) Prototype of a Mobile Gun System derivative of the Piranha, mounting a 105mm tank gun Piranha-derived Stryker, clad with a supplementary anti-HEAT shell slat armour Canadian Forces Piranha...

Following the end of the Cold War some theorists believed that the existing suite of U.S. Armoured vehicles, designed largely to fight Soviet mechanized forces in Europe, were not well suited to the lower-intensity missions U.S. Armed forces would be tasked with. United States President John F. Kennedy and Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev meet in a 1961 summit held in Vienna, Austria at the height of the Cold War. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Mobile Gun System, firing its 105 mm gun

Mobile Gun System

Mobile Gun System

This wheeled vehicle would mount a tank gun like the 105 mm gun used in the previous generation of NATO tanks, like the M60 Patton, Centurion, and the Leopard. But, while it would take on some of the roles of tanks, it is not a tank replacement. Its armour, for instance, is much thinner than that of the tanks it is slated to replace. While it is unlikely to encounter another tank on the modern battlefield, its cousin the Stryker has encountered rocket propelled grenades in Iraq. Image File history File links IAVFiringCanon. ... Image File history File links IAVFiringCanon. ... Image File history File links 2005_01_21_Mobile_Gun_System_from_an_angle. ... Image File history File links 2005_01_21_Mobile_Gun_System_from_an_angle. ... Image File history File links Tanker_team-_cropped. ... Image File history File links Tanker_team-_cropped. ... Panzerkampfwagen IV with long-barrelled gun ISU-122 A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. ... The M47, M48 and M60 Patton were the United States Armys principal tanks of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. ... The Centurion was the primary British Main Battle Tank of the immediate post-war era, and considered by many to be one of the best British tank designs of all time. ... The Leopard is the primary post-WWII German tank design, a design that has been in use as the primary main battle tank for most European countries in various versions since the early 1960s. ... The Stryker is a family of eight wheeled, all wheel drive, armored combat vehicles produced by General Dynamics Land Systems and is in current use by the US Army. ... A rocket propelled grenade (RPG) is a man-portable, shoulder-launched weapon capable of firing an explosive device longer distances than an otherwise unassisted soldier could throw. ...

Because the Mobile Gun System uses the same chassis as other Piranha derivatives, it would have the same mobility, and could be rescued or salvaged by a Piranha-derived recovery vehicle. But without a radical redesign, it too would require some re-assembly before it could drive into combat, after being delivered by a C-130.

The turrets proposed for these vehicles have been low profile, remotely controlled, with an autoloader. Magazine is the name for a item or place within which ammunition is stored. ...

See also

• Stryker
• AMX 10 RC

The Stryker is a family of eight wheeled, all wheel drive, armored combat vehicles produced by General Dynamics Land Systems and is in current use by the US Army. ... The AMX-10RC is an armoured car built by GIAT. Over 300 are in service in the French Army. ...

External links

• SFU web page describing a Canadian Mobile Gun System -- with pictures.
• SFU web page comparing the MGS with competing systems.
• SFU web page with an interesting discussion of alternative thinking about the design of an MGS.
• Mowag has an .avi movie of a MGS firing its gun.
• General Dynamics Canada video of the MGS firing while on the move.