New uses for proven weapons: adapting the Chain Gun for CUAS
An EOS remote weapon station armed with Northrop Grumman’s 30mm M230LF dual-feed Chain Gun. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)
Northrop Grumman’s M230LF Chain Gun is finding a growing role in countering uncrewed aerial systems, with the 30mm weapon already deployed to Ukraine and adopted by US forces.
Northrop Grumman Armament Systems’ dual-feed 30x113mm M230LF (Link Feed) member of its expanding family of Chain Guns is now being used for the demanding counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS) mission and has already been deployed to Ukraine.
The M230LF evolved as a further development of the original 30mm M230, as installed in all production AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. Its key differentiator is that it uses a dual-feed system rather than a single link-less magazine-fed arrangement.
The first application for the 30mm M230LF was for a small batch of Remote Multipurpose Turret Systems installed on ADVS Desert Chameleon 6x6 vehicles supplied to
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