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Good afternoon, welcome to the CTAI stand. My name's Heather Beebe and I'm the new Managing
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Director of the company. I work for BAE Systems and I'm seconded to CTAI because we are a
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joint venture between BAE Systems and KNDS in France. So we're showcasing our 40mm Cased
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Telescope Ammunition System because we are vested in that system. It's going into service
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with the British Army and the French Army at the moment and we are delighted to bring
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this to Eurosatury this year. Our primary purpose of being here this year is to really
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talk a lot about the system going into service. We have taken 30 years to develop this system
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and we are now at a really pivotal place in our engineering competence, the system maturity
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and because we're going into service we're getting a lot of feedback for how effective
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and capable the system is. Our users love it so we want to bring all of that expertise and
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that feedback to the market and our aim is to grow our company and grow our user base. So we
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currently have two users, the French and the British. We want to have six users in our family
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That's our big ambition and that's why we're here. Here is the range of the 40mm CTAI Ammunition
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family. Then we've got a wide range of capacity here that we propose. I would start with the
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penetrators. We've got two penetrators. One is the sub-caliber dart, really effective against
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tough armoured vehicles and the other one is just a simple kilogram of steel but very efficient
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against barricades and buildings, even light armoured vehicles. They're very useful because
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it's an inert round. Then you can also propose that capacity in the naval domain where you can
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fire inert rounds just for police statement. The two next are HE rounds. We've got here two HEs
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One is with a rear fuse and very efficient on concrete. The second one is a time programmable
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airburst HE. You can address targets such as troops on the ground or snipers hidden by rocks
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or buildings etc. It's very very efficient. Again also when you're on a direct firing
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you can't address those troops that are in trenches. With the airburst you can do this
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And the other airburst ammunition is kinetic energy airburst. Instead of having a payload
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of HE, you've got the payload of pellets of tungsten. It's like acting like a shotgun in
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front of the target such as drones, airplanes, helicopters, cruising missiles etc. Then the
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range of active ammunition. I would like to compare these 40 CT rounds to the conventional
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medium calibers such as this big one. It's the conventional 40 millimeter version. The concept
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of telescope technology was to compress the projectile inside the cartridge surrounded by
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the propellant and making a 40 millimeter firepower but in the compactness of roughly
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the 30 millimeter 173. Even a bit shorter but definitely four times more powerful compared
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to these rounds. Obviously the gun cannot be the same than a conventional gun and this case
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telescope gun is very dedicated to the ammunition family I've just introduced. What is interesting
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is the introductory part of the cannon is really fixed into the turret and the turret integrators
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knows very well what are the constraints in terms of integration. We've got a very wide open arc of
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elevation of 85 degrees that is capable to address the land domain as well as the air domain. The
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full case telescope armament system as it is named is composed of the cannon. Then you can introduce
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the round like this just putting the round inside and the system will load automatically inside the
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ammunition landing system and this ammunition land system is driven automatically through the
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panels that are inside the turret and the user can just select the ammunition he wants and the
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system is like a vending machine will bring the right ammunition to fight against the right target
