By Geoff Fein BAE SYSTEMS this week unveiled a new internally funded effort to develop a defensive weapon that will provide 360 degrees of suppressive fire for the V-22 Osprey. The Remote Guardian System (RGS) is designed to be belly mounted on the Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT]-Boeing [BA] V-22. RGS is a turreted weapon system that consists of a turreted sensor and turreted Gatling gun, Clark Friese, vice president defense avionics for BAE, told Defense Daily in a recent interview.…
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