Otomatic

The OTO main anti-aircraft tank for intercept and combat (dubbed Otomatic, a play on automatic) was an Italian self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) prototype. Designed and built by OTO Melara, it was armed with a single 76 mm naval gun.

Key facts

Weapon.name: Otomatic SPAAG
Weapon.image: 76-mm Super Rapid Gun System on OF-40 tank chassis (greenwood background).png
Weapon.image_size: 300
Weapon.caption: Otomatic SPAAG
Weapon.origin: Italy
Weapon.type: Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
Weapon.is_vehicle: yes
Weapon.length: Hull:
Weapon.height: 3.07m (10ft 1in)
Weapon.suspension: Torsion bar suspension
Weapon.primary_armament: 1× OTO Melara 76 mm derived autocannon with 70 rounds
Weapon.secondary_armament: 8x Smoke grenade launchers
Weapon.engine: MTU MB 837 Ka-500 diesel engine
Weapon.pw_ratio: 16.3 hp / 1 tonne
Weapon.crew: 4

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Image: 76-mm Super Rapid Gun System on OF-40 tank chassis (greenwood background).png

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==Design and development== The design combined the chassis of an OF-40, with a new turret mounting the Otobreda 76 mm gun along with associated search and targeting radars and their fire control systems: an S search radar SMA VPS-A05, with around 15 km range against aircraft and 8 km against helicopters in hovering; and a fire control unit SMA VPG-A06 (Ka band). It also included an optical fire-control system with periscopes for search and aiming, with a laser range-finder. The whole turret was built of steel (roughly with the same thickness of the one used in early Leopard 1s) and weighed 15 tonnes. OTO Melara offered it as a long-range SPAAG that could outperform systems like the Gepard and similar versions with the British Marksman turret that mounted much smaller, but rapid-fire, 35 mm guns.