This looks very similar to a Helio FVT925 Turret also fitted on the GKN Simba and the Alvis Scorpion as a prototype turret for France’s VBCI but I could be wrong.
You might want to start from there I think. Hope this helps!
EDIT:
So yep, Ive never really seen any other turret that has a smooth left side on the front and I cant think of anything else other than the Helio turrets and its really only the FVT925 that has the 25mm Bushmaster but it does not really look like it.
Thank you! It looks similar but there are slight differences (such as the angle of the left-side plate on the front and the mantlet). I’ll look into this one more, maybe there’s an earlier design somewhere
Mostly for the small and medium calibre:
note: RDT is now known as Arquus, but panhard is now also part of RTD/Arquus
Here’s another 90mm, on the SK-105 hull. Haven’t found any other info
Thanks, I also keep finding more indonesian vehciles from Cockerill. It never stops haha.
That thing needs to be put down.
Is it even an SK-105 without the oscillating turret? Its a malformed spawn of hell lol
Im a bit surprised the V-150 90mm FSVs have not been mentioned here yet. From just a cursory research, I think its in service with the Royal Thai Army, I think there were plans to upgrade the chassis to an HMV-150 but I dont think they transferred the turrets over:
Didn’t you post about another example like this last week?
Both only use the cockerill gun, and are thus not included in this list. (It needs to use a cockerill turret or be a semi-cockerill design to be featured here)
I could make such a list, but that’s more for the far future…
I see so it needs to be a Cockerill turret, my bad. The one I posted was on the precursor to the LAV chassis which is the LAV-300 but this one is on a V-150 Commando Chassis (M107 in US Service iirc).
For 2 of these three vehicles information is exceptionally scarce, only the one from Thales Belgium is featured often in old articles. The Rosomak was often wrongly named by some people on twitter/X, but also by the Polish defense press, which often confused it with the XC-8-120HP variant or the CT-CV 105HP variant.
Edit: I added 2 robot-vehicles with Cockerill turrets (Estonian project) + one more Arquus-Cockerill project.
Oh right, I forgot the most crazy modern Cockerill weapon system:
The Tank Boat
Originally intended to be used with a Cockerill 3105 turret, the Indonesian goverment who intends to use this Antasena-class combat boat, expressed more interest in a Bushmaster mk.44 30mm-armed one.
Another interesting find is the Wildcat Anti-air system which was also trialed with a Cockerill CM 90 turret:
This time it’s a render for a vehicle which will be shown in a couple of days in madrid:
Minute, T. (2025, May 6). Turkish defense contractor to present new PARS ALPHA 6×6 at Madrid exhibition. Turkish Minute. Turkish defense contractor to present new PARS ALPHA 6x6 at Madrid exhibition - Turkish Minute
Should the vehicle be actually built instead of a mock-up, I’ll add it to the list.
All of Kokereil’s turrets are interesting.
However, it would be even better if a version with Hard kill APS were also available.
More vab mk3 variant are always nice.
