Moog is using this year’s DSEI to push its Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) as a flexible solution for British Army requirements ranging from counter-drone to anti-armour missions.
At its largest UK showing to date, Moog has a dedicated stand in the Land Zone (N2-440) where two full-sized RIwP turrets are on display. One is configured for the Army’s Specialist Counter-Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-UAS) role, mounting a 30x173mm XM813 dual-feed cannon alongside a 7.62mm machine gun.
The second makes its world debut in an anti-armour configuration, fitted with four Brimstone missiles, a 30x113mm XM914 cannon and a 7.62mm machine gun. Moog highlights that the same base hub design can switch between mission sets, offering both Force Overwatch and generalist C-UAS capability.
The company is also partnering with General Dynamics Land Systems UK to display a short-range air defence variant of RIwP on the Foxhound protected patrol vehicle. That system combines Starstreak or Martlet missiles, a 30x113mm cannon, 7.62mm machine gun and Thales optics, intended to show how light forces could gain significant firepower through the modular turret.
Moog argues that the value of RIwP lies in commonality: one “weapons hub” that can host different effectors and sensors while simplifying training, spares and maintenance. The design is also pitched as “spiral upgradeable,” with the ability to swap in new effectors as threats evolve.
Richard Allen-Miles, EMEA Capture Lead at Moog, said the show was an opportunity to demonstrate that flexibility. “The flexibility to meet multiple requirements with various effectors and sensors, yet retain commonality across mission sets, is what makes RIwP so special,” he said.
Alongside the full-scale turrets, a one-third scale model is on the UK Defence & Security Exports stand, with Moog signalling that RIwP could be manufactured in Britain if selected for Army programmes.
Moog on a Supacat HMT looks great.
Ill-tempered Supacats with lasers attached to their fricking heads would also be nice.
Always been a big fan of their synthesisers 😏
Separate companies founded by cousins, I’m afraid.
Robert Moog invented the synthesiser and Bill Moog invented the electrohydraulic servo valve.
Could these be fitted to Boxer?
It would be firepower upgrade if it could.
There’s the Boxer Skyranger 30mm ir 35mm with 2×4 missile lsuncher plus radar. Wonder if the UK would buy some of those for base and mobile Army shorad to complement Skysabre? The Moogs look a lot simpler set-up but still pretty punchy. Could they even pair up these 1×4 or 2×4 type HVM/LMM launchers succesfully pn the RN 30mm mounts? Could offer cheap SAM cover for opvs and lightly armed vessels.
I’m very surprised that Moog hasn’t offered a version of their turret with 2 to 4 ASRAAMs, along with a 30mm cannon or 7.62 machinegun. They do versions with Brimstone, Starstreak/LMM, Stinger etc, for both light & heavy vehicles, so I’d have thought it’d be a no-brainer. Put it on a Supacat, Foxound, Boxer, whatever you want: greater range & capability against tougher threats where LMM or Starstreak doesn’t have the legs.
Maybe it’d be too heavy unless they designed the turret servos? Or they now prefer having enclosed launchers after the exposed Hellfire woes with Stout (which now has eight Stingers, instead of four Stingers & two completely exposed Hellfires), so they’d have to make a new box launcher? Unless the UK wants to go with a “Boxer with ASRAAMs” approach that Germany is doing with IRIS-T on their Boxers? Germany is also having truck IRIS-T SLM for longer range protection for units further back, the Boxer IRIS-T is for close protection…
Buy a few hundred of these with an appropriate sized turret ring, fit to refurbed warrior chassis and bobs your uncle.