Colombian army to equip its new LAV III with Rafael's RWS Samson
The remote weapons station will use a 30x113mm Orbital ATK type cannon and a machine gun Browning M2A2 QCB COAX 12.7x99 mm
Eyal Boguslavsky
| 03/05/2023
Photo: Rafael website
Colombia will equip its 55 new General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) 8x8 LAV III vehicles with Israeli Rafael's remote weapons station RWS Dual Samson type, which will use a 30x113mm Orbital ATK type cannon and a machine gun Browning M2A2 QCB COAX 12.7x99 mm.
According to the Spanish website Infodefensa, the selection of the weapon was due to technical reasons on the part of the Colombian Army, when comparing the maintenance costs of this cannon with that of 30x173 mm originally intended (an option that Canada would also evaluate for 59 of its units), adding that a batch of 26,000 30mm rounds would have been purchased.
It should also be noted that all the vehicles will have their respective RWS and weapons, which would include the Rafael Advanced Spike-ER anti-tank system
InfoDefensa explains that the selection of the Samson instead of the Kongsberg Defense (RT series) is due to the fact that the Army intends to standardize with a single supplier its remote station systems, since the 32 LAV III that are already deployed are fitted with the Rafael Samson Mini.
The remote weapons station will use a 30x113mm Orbital ATK type cannon and a machine gun Browning M2A2 QCB COAX 12.7x99 mm
Photo: Rafael website
Colombia will equip its 55 new General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) 8x8 LAV III vehicles with Israeli Rafael's remote weapons station RWS Dual Samson type, which will use a 30x113mm Orbital ATK type cannon and a machine gun Browning M2A2 QCB COAX 12.7x99 mm.
According to the Spanish website Infodefensa, the selection of the weapon was due to technical reasons on the part of the Colombian Army, when comparing the maintenance costs of this cannon with that of 30x173 mm originally intended (an option that Canada would also evaluate for 59 of its units), adding that a batch of 26,000 30mm rounds would have been purchased.
It should also be noted that all the vehicles will have their respective RWS and weapons, which would include the Rafael Advanced Spike-ER anti-tank system
InfoDefensa explains that the selection of the Samson instead of the Kongsberg Defense (RT series) is due to the fact that the Army intends to standardize with a single supplier its remote station systems, since the 32 LAV III that are already deployed are fitted with the Rafael Samson Mini.
