GunPACS is being developed in response to an urgent need requesting kits that can be rapidly fielded and installed in theater to protect convoys. The initial platform for integration of these bolt-on kits was identified as the MTVR because of its durability and availability in theater.
GunPACS is a partnership between the Office of Naval Research and the Rapid Reaction Transition Office at the Office of the Secretary of Defense that builds on previous successes with the Gunslinger gunfire detection, counter fire system and the WolfPack small-unit enabling capability. The focus of this project is to develop and field MTVR kits that provide a gunfire detection and counter fire capability through acoustic detection and rapid and accurate response and/or direct fire against a threat via a remote weapons station (RWS). It also focuses on enhanced communication systems to extend lines of communications and expand pathways for transmission of shared information between individual GunPACS systems and an operations center or small unit commander.
Designed and developed with small-unit missions in mind, GunPACS leverages current MTVR capabilities of mobility, survivability, reliability, the current MTVR and additive kit. GunPACS further enhances these resident capabilities by integrating several technologies to improve a small units’ ability to expand situational awareness, share information, locate, close with, and more accurately engage threats.
The combination of capabilities in each kit is intended to enhance and improve a small units’ versatility, adaptability and lethality through increased situational awareness enabled by the RWS optics package; distribution and sharing of information through more capable communications; and, when lethal force requires, highly accurate and rapid volume of fire enabled by the RWS operator protected under armor. The capability is further enhanced through the organic capabilities of mobility and survivability of the MTVR platform.