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AAD 2010: BAE Systems looks to market for logistics RWS

21st September 2010 - 17:00 GMT | by Darren Lake in Cape Town

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The South African arm of BAE Systems has unveiled a new remote weapon station (RWS) designed and developed specifically for what it perceives is a gap in the market for self-protection systems for logistics vehicles.

Gerrie van der Merwe, manager business development Land Systems Dynamics, told Land Warfare International that there could potentially be a large market for this type of system both in South Africa and further abroad.

Unlike some of the other systems currently on the market the Self-Defence RWS (SD RWS) is not a scaled down version of a larger RWS. That has allowed the company to

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