The need for 60-80 OTOMATIC never materialised, and the Italian army was even evaluating using a L70 Bofors with a Leopard 1 as a stopgap measure. The Italian army needed another turret used with a Leop ard 1 chassis (the turret was to be adaptable into many 40 ton vehicles, like the Leopard or the OF- 40), but the amalgamation never happened, as the SID AM 25 quad 25 mm gun was already in production and, despite being inferior and not all-weather, almost 300 SIDAMs were bought. Still, it is much cheaper to fire a proximity-fused high-caliber shell versus a cheap ISR UAV or suicidal UAV, compared to yeeting a guided missile. However, the Otomatic was never put into production because the already widespread presence of ant i-aircraft missiles reduced the need for a long-range AA gun on the modern battlefield. There was also a 7.62 mm turret mount for close defense. The APFSDS round on the other hand, had about 330mm of penetration. The HE round had a built in proximity fuse and could send shrapnel out at about 20 feet away. ![]() The barrel was strengthened in order to hold greater pressures, so it can fire not only HE, but also AP FSDS ammunition. The gun could also be useful against lighter armored vehicles or older generation tanks. OTO Melara offered it as a long-range SPAAG that could outperform systems like the Ge pard and similar versions with the British Marksman t urret that mounted much smaller, but rapid-fire, 35 mm guns. The whole turret was built of steel (roughly with the same thickness of the one used in early Leopard 1s) and weighed 15 tonnes. It also included an optical fire-con trol system with periscopes for search and aiming, with a laser range-finder. ![]() The design combined the chassis of a Palmaria Self-prop elled gun (SPG), with a new turret mounting the Otobreda 76 mm gun along with associated search and targeting radars and their fire control systems: an S search radar SMA VPS-A05, with around 15 km range against aircraft and 8 km against helicopters in hovering and a fire control unit SMA VPG-A06 (Ka band). ![]() Designed and built by OTO M elara, it was armed with a single 76 mm na val gun. The Otomatic was an Italian self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) prototype.
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