
Aware the Army wants bigger guns for its combat vehicles, BAE Systems is pitching its CT40 cannon and cased-telescoped ammunition for service officials during a live-fire demonstration this week at Fort Benning, Ga.BAE hasn’t settled on a turret integrator with which it will offer the cannon to the Army, so Wednesday’s demonstration will be done from a static stand and involve just the cannon and loading and fire control systems. Air burst, point detonation and old-fashioned steel “kinetic energy” rounds…