Northrop Grumman makes new changes to the M230LF

Northrop Grumman makes new changes to the M230LF.

While the number of M230LF cannons is increasing among the US military, a number of international customers are showing a strong interest in the 30×113 mm light weapon originally developed to become the automatic gun installed on the AH-64 Apache helicopter and then declined in the link-fed version for land and naval role, John McCollum, Director Business Development of the Guns Operating Unit at Northrop Grumman stated during an online update briefing.

Following the M230LF fielding in theatre in different roles the US military, which call it XM914, issued a Request for Information for additional M-LIDS (Mobile-Low, slow, small unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System) in which the Northrop Grumman chain gun finding is the hard-kill Counter-UAS effector. With a weight less than 73 kg without ammunition and a recoil force of less than 7,400 N, it can be fitted to many RCWS designed for hosting 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. The M230LF chain gun can shoot single shot, controlled burst, and full automatic, in the latter mote the firing rate reaching 200 rounds per minute, and provides a lethality range of over 2,000 meters.

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