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The

Anti-AmBush System (AAS)

Your hidden advantage

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Anti-AmBush System - AAS

Whatever the definition, ambushing is a highly effective force multiplier, especially against larger and/or more conventional forces.

As old as the hills themselves but being adopted more widely than ever in modern asymmetric warfare. Ambushes are certain to be a major strategy for the future insurgence, terrorist and Naxal forces, alike, from the fields for Afghanistan to the jungles of India.

This highly innovative Anti-Ambush System (AAS) has been developed to counter the terrorist’s surprise advantage and will “flush out” any potential ambushes:

• From a “safe” stand-off position of up to 500 metres, further with remote firing.

• Allows your forces to move more quickly and confidently through dense vegetation or concealed topography.

• Relatively quiet, i.e. non explosive.

• Highly effective over a wide-spread area. Area of effect up to 100 metres wide and 50 metres high, like an enormous scattergun.

• Removes the ambusher’s surprise, and therefore a lot of their advantage.

A crude but powerful hand made rocket is stuck in a roadside tree

Ambush (noun) “a surprise attack from troops etc. who have

concealed themselves”.

Ambush (verb) “attack someone after lying in wait for them”.

- Oxford English Dictionary

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PortaBility

At up to a mere 159 kilos (350 lbs) in weight the AAS can be:

• Wheel mounted and operated by a single person

• Carried by 2 people, or

• Vehicle mounted for greater operational flexibility and rapidity.

AAS LauncherArea of effect 100m wide

spread

50m height

Depth into undergrowth will depend upon:

• The projectile used

• The density and type of foliage

• The pressure selected on the AAS

up to 500m

AAS Launcher

5m long vehicle

100m wide spread

“9 die as Maoists ambush

Gaya cops”

The spread and penetration can be varied depending on the container used.

4The AAS can lay down a layered attack profile which can be:

• Lethal• Non-lethal or• Less-than-lethal

Hence innocent locals, or animals are not unduly hurt if they happen to be in the area targeted.

Any destructive impact on the local environment and vegetation, is also kept to a minimum as local material or biodegradable components can be used as projectiles. There is also no risk of igniting any potential fires in vegetation.

By harming the local civilians, their animals, or damaging their crops with burning or live ammunition, you will lose the hearts and minds of the people.

With the AAS, collateral damage is minimised.

From a distance of 75 meters from the start of the dense foliage. Hidden within the foliage were 15 targets that were spread over an area of 900 square meters. The shots fired contained paint balls that would clearly show the extent of the damage inflicted on the targets. ALL targets were hit multiple times. See video link at end.

“It was a three kilometre long death trap laid by the outlawed Maoists that left several policemen dead in the worst-ever Naxal ambush in the state.”

Maoists rebels training in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.

Optimum Performance

The AAS is a “show of incredible power” and forceful means of ridding an area of unwelcome individuals. A machine gun could be used to spray live rounds into the ambush areas, but the consequences of such indiscriminate fire would be counter-productive with winning the hearts and minds of the locals.

Bullets are designed to kill, the AAS is not. Hence the AAS can be used indiscriminately.

The projectiles will - depending on the materials used - cut through vegetation and penetrate deep into the jungle.

The AAS capability will help expose any possible ambush so removing the surprise element. It will detonate possible mines or IED`s, and it will help you adapt your tactics in response to an ambush ensuring your forces are not drawn into terrain where a larger attack maybe launched.

The effects of gravel on the 10mm marine plywood target, in the same test area.

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Features

• Low cost to use

• Fully tried, tested and immediately available

• Repeated firing; rapidly – Five round breach loading.

• Scalable; from 84, 110, and 285mm barrel calibre

• Variable; in power and lethality of the projectiles selected.

• Easy and intuitive to learn

• Accurately fires over 3000 small projectiles

• High velocity of over 350 metres per second.

• Can be fired over the top of objects.

• Hand portable, trailer quad bike or vehicle mounted or can be manoeuvred on a remote controlled platform.

• Easily maintained, few moving parts, repairable in the fields

• British engineering at its best.

• Can be customised to your requirements or to fit your vehicles “75 jawans killed in Naxalite attack in Dantewada”

Launcher Technical Details

• Pressure Tested to 2000psi (pounds per square inch)

• Normal Operating Pressure 1000psi

• Weight – small unit including stand - 90kg

• Weight – large unit including stand - 160kg

• Projectile Velocity 145 to 350 metres per second

• Projectile Range 300 to 1000 metres plus.

• Recoil System

• Breach & Magazine Load System giving up to 6 shots per minute.

• Charged via scuba dive tanks or a standard compressor.

• Remote firing

• Self fill shells to enable user to define projectile choice

• Simple operation therefore minimum training required

Wooded area

Dense trees

75m

Vehicle and launcher

Targets deployed - all hit

Not to scale

6Additional Applications

The AAS can also be used for:

• Crowd control• To stop vehicles• Method of Entry (MOE) into buildings –

through compound walls *• Triggering booby-traps, landmines and IED’s,

from a distance *• Area denial• Other law enforcement capabilities.

* See seperate leaflets for more information on these appplications.

The compressed air launcher was originally designed for the British and US Special Forces (SF) as a non-explosive Method Of Entry (MOE). This system has been in production for several years and is currently being used by several international SF teams including bomb disposal and SWAT teams worldwide.

The AAS will enable your forces Standard Operational Procedures to vary according to the specific needs from different situations.

Operating Procedure

The AAS can be mounted on the lead vehicles or on a trailer in a convey, as an integral part of the convey.

Should the lead vehicle/person in charge fear an ambush, they can fire the AAS. Immediately re-load, re-direct the AAS and fire. Repeat as necessary indiscriminately. The convey proceeds as original planned.

The rebels are deterred from ambushing and pushed back into the jungle.

This picture shows the projectile shortly before it opens up to release thousands of smaller projectiles, from gravel to paintballs.

7Riot Control

The AAS is ideal in trying to limit the escalation of conflict, to channelize or control the movement of civilian populations, or limit large crowds to restricted areas. For instance as used by the USMC in Somalia in 1995.

Being able to alter easily and quickly the defence laid out, this “layered defence” offers a military or police force a wide range of options. This allows for variable or vague force continuum, or rules of engagement. With asymmetric warfare these days, it is very hard to differentiate between civilians and terrorists. Often terrorists use civilians as “human shields”.

The AAS offers a capability not previously available.

Operated in exactly the same way as when used in an Anti-Ambush situation. The projectiles used are simply “toned – down” to softer items e.g. tennis or squash balls and the operating pressure reduced. This so as not to cause permanent injury.

Entanglement nets can also be deployed over a large area, to trap and hold the rioters.

The mass of the force and wide spread pattern would push back and deter the most hardened and hostile of crowds; again at a good stand off distance.

If paint balls were used (at lower pressure) then the rioters in the front lines would be marked with the paint for later arrest.

“The size, noise (of a blank shot) and physical presence alone of the AAS maybe enough to deter an angry crowd.”

Projectiles

There are many different sizes and types of projectiles which can be used as ammunition.

Container size will depend upon barrel diameter. This is easily interchanged from 84mm up to 285mm. The way the outer casing is modified will determine the spread pattern and range of the projectiles.

The containers for the projectiles can vary, from an empty plastic bottle to a specialist aerodynamic explosive charge for C-IED.

Projectiles can be altered according to the threat. Self fill, so the user defines the force.

Lethal

Non-lethal

Less-than-lethal

PepperSalt

Squash Balls

Hollow Plastic Balls

Tennis / Soft Balls

Sticky Foam

Wax Pellets

Bean Bags

Solid Plastic Balls

Paint Balls

Gravel Golf Balls

CIED Specialist Charge

MOE Water or Powder

Nets

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Launch

FLIGHT - of paintballs

Impact

9Further Information

You can find more information is on our website: www.bcbin.com.

Catalogues

All catalogues are available in a printed and electronic form, PIPS - Personal Integrated Protection System www.bcbin.com/pipsACE - Advanced Combat Equipment www.bcbin.com/ace

Videos

All product films are featured online, links below:• Company Profile English http://vimeo.com/3175014• All In One (UAV, WBS, Etc) http://vimeo.com/5589752• UAV & CT Urban Assault http://vimeo.com/5589546• Wall Breaker Promo http://vimeo.com/5590013• Wall Breaker On TV http://vimeo.com/5589496• Wall Breaker DSEi 2009 http://vimeo.com/6465902• Buccaneer Anti Piracy (DSEi) http://vimeo.com/6466856• Anti Ambush System (New) http://vimeo.com/12228035• Buccaneer Film http://vimeo.com/14207376

Dawn in Naxalite territory, south Bastar region

Recoil System

Our latest systems come complete with our advanced recoil system to absorb the shock of the air-blast upon launch of the projectile.

Launch Control

The system can be fired from a remote launch control box located up to 500 meters away, ensuring the safety of the operator in the event an IED is triggered.

Projectiles

Our systems can be adapted to fire a wide range of projectiles, including those designed to break through walls, cut through the sides of vehicles, deliver nets to entagled boat propellers, or ambush disruption devices.

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“Jo Ladna nahi JaandeJo ladna nahi cohnde

Wo gulam bana liye jaade ne”“Those who do not know how to fight

Those who do not want to fight

They are turned into slaves.”

– La Singh dil

Despite the curtailment of militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir, the public order dimension in the state has become a cause for serious concern. We need to revisit standard operating procedures and crowd control measures to deal with public agitations with non-lethal, yet effective and more focused measures. We also cannot have an approach of one size fits all.”

- Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh

“The Maoists triggered land mine

blasts and opened indiscriminate

firing in Brahmabeda jungle of

Narayanpur district, about 275kn

from the state capital” - CCRPF sources

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Finned Projectile

Breech load assembly

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We would be happy to discuss your criteria with you in confidence. For more information please contact:

BCB International Ltd.Clydesmuir RoadCardiff, UKCF24 2QS

Phone: +44 (0) 2920 433 700Fax: +44 (0) 2920 433 701Email: info@bcbin.comWeb: www.bcbin.com

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