It has the ability to operate alone, and has an automatic target detection within the sight FOV, meaning that any targets visible to the sight will be automatically detected and displayed, which has an IRST to aquire targets and accurately track and fire on them, but for any targets outside of the sighs FOV, you would have to detect them yourself like with the Lvrbv 701.
Unfortunately that’s just a mocup. The Bofors BOSAM on an ACV Puma chasi to be specific, which never went beyond a wooden mockup of the turret.
Sadly not. Not a single BOSAM turret was ever produced with the entire project never going beyond a mockup. We do however roughly know how it would perform if built, so they could be added as an exception in a last ditch effort if Sweden is in need of an SPAA which it would fill the role of.
We don’t know what radar it would have gotten, but it would have been made by Ericsson, and it looks a lot like the same radar that’s on the ASRAD-R so it would have probably been the same one, and we know the missiles which were planned for it were based on the RBS 90, so it would have roughly the same performance as the ASRAD-R.
Basically it would have been an ASRAD-R with more ready to fire missiles and more missiles in total (it would have carried 16), but sadly neither of the proposed BOSAM variants were ever completed as the turrets were only mockups.
Looks like I was wrong back then. It can launch missiles using the IRST without relying on the command vehicle.
Some technical details of FM90(HQ-7B. Apart from the missile everything is same as HQ-7)
Possible for AA Guns can be towed and operatable at the same time? Some nations will lack a variety of useful SPAAGs but maybe allowing these Towed AA be operatable can allow some more breathing room for keeping up with many threatening CAS aircrafts.
Similar to how this works.
Spaags dont need any extra preparations before firing but a towed AA gun needs to lock it’s wheels and extend it’s support arms(If it has any). Otherwise it wont stay still.
Well those are exceptions. Some SAMs dont really need to extend their support arms in order to fire the missiles. SPAAGs can fire on the move but towed artillery cannot.
