US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on June 30 for "Mobile gun system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,305, issued on June 30, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Mobile gun system" was invented by Griffith Peter Andrew (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain), Richard Peter Lewin (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain) and Matthew Kirk (Barrow-in-Furness, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a mobile gun system. The mobile gun system comprises a chassis and a gun barrel mounted to the chassis such that when a projectile is fired from the gun barrel a recoil force causes recoil movement of the chassis. The mobile gun system further comprises a braking system for retarding the recoil movement of th...