HMCS Summerside (MM 711)
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HMCS Summerside is a Canadian Kingston-class maritime coastal defence vessel. Commissioned in 1999, it is named after Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
In 2006 Maritime Command selected the Summerside to serve as the test-bed for a new weapons system, an Oto-Melara remote controlled machine gun.[1][2][3][4] The Kingston Class vessels currently mount a pintle-mounted World War 2 fifty caliber Browning machine gun on each wing, as secondary armament. The Halifax Class vessels mount half a dozen machine guns. Maritime Command has considered replacing the pintle-mounted machine guns on all its vessels.
Following the tests Ryan Bell, one of the Summerside's officers, wrote the crew[1]:
"...can attest that the new mount greatly improves upon a conventional .50-calibre Heavy Machine Gun mount in accuracy, operator ease and crew safety..."
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- ^ Sublieutenant Ryan Bell. "East Coast trials new weapon system", Lookout newspaper, November 20, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-01-26. "The target results showed the remote controlled heavy machine gun offered many improvements in operator use and target accuracy over the conventional, manual .50-cal system currently in use."
- ^ Sublieutenant Ryan Bell. "Summerside trials weapons system", Trident News, November 27, 2006, pp. 12. Retrieved on 2007-08-31. "If deemed effective, the RCHMG could be installed throughout the fleet including on the Halifax and Kingston class vessels."
- ^ Background — CF Remote Control Heavy Machine Gun Project. Canadian American Strategic Review. Retrieved on 2007-08-31.
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