Electro Optic Fire Control System (EFCS)

The Electro-optic Fire Control System (EFCS) is a surveillance and fire control system optimized for land and naval applications. It provides fire control for missiles, multiple weapons of different caliber, and combinations of both missiles and cannon on a single platform.

EFCS computes a full ballistic solution, taking into account weapon and ammunition characteristics, target range, azimuth track of the target, and an array of environmental parameters. FCS can design ballistic software for aimpoint prediction for any caliber weapon or control and tasking software for missile systems.

As part of its long running program with the US Navy that commenced in 1996, FCS upgraded the EFCS fitted to the MK96 weapon station, as part of the 1999 rework.

Under this configuration, EFCS operates with 25mm, 30mm and 35mm cannon; 40mm grenade launcher; and interfaces with Stinger Missile control systems.

For this application, EFCS is used with a video tracker to control the stabilized platform with an operator located on the mount. EFCS and the video tracker control the traverse and elevation of the various weapon combinations.

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