PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. — The same team of Picatinny Arsenal engineers that brought the Objective Gunner Protection Kit (OGPK) to service members has completed development of a new armor system that is customized for integration with the Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire command-link guided (TOW) missile and Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS). TOW gunners, soon you too [...]
Continuous Army innovation yields improved gunner protection
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. –Chances are, if a warfighter has deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, they are familiar with the Objective Gunner Protection Kit, or OGPK. With more than 45,000 of these systems fielded to date, the OGPK is a standard-issue equipment piece for the Army’s tactical gunner vehicles – from up-armored Humvees in Operation New [...]
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