D&S 2015: Black Widow Spider grows up
The Black Widow Spider, an effort by Thailand’s Defence Technology Institute (DTI) to create an 8x8 armoured vehicle, has grown from a mock-up two years ago at Defence & Security 2013 into a full prototype.
The first vehicle with a 24t combat weight was shown with an unmanned turret produced by ST Kinetics of Singapore, this armed with an ATK 30mm Mk44 Bushmaster II cannon and a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun. This remote-controlled weapon station (RWS) is an existing design from the ST Kinetics stable.
A DTI spokesman said his organisation, a division of the Thai Ministry of Defence, had
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