Supercat to demo HMT ACC with Moog’s RIwP at IAVC 2025

Above: Supacat’s HMT Armoured Closed Cab (HMT ACC) with Moog’s Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP).
Courtesy Moog

Over three days senior executives from SC Group, including its Chief Executive Nick Ames and Supacat Director Phil Applegarth, will be demonstrating the high mobility platform with integrated air defence capability and its readiness for the short-range requirements Ground-Based Air Defence (GBAD) Programme.

The demonstration will specifically comprise:

• HMT Armoured Closed Cab (HMT ACC) providing blast/ballistic and environmental protection on HMT 600 Mk 3.
• Moog Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) offering air defence, anti-armour, or multimission capabilities.
• Ultra PCS EKA- GVA compliant distributed and modular power and data backbone, providing simpler integration of multiple sensors, weapons, communications and platform management systems.
• Dedrone flexible suite of C-UAS solutions, tailored to meet any security requirement.

Augmenting Ultra’s integrated GVA digital backbone, Supacat has incorporated additional counter-drone protection via Dedrone C-UAS monitoring, providing superior detection and mitigation capabilities for the vehicle system.

The HMT ACC platform combined with the RIwP system provides high readiness forces with a potent capability designed to ‘go anywhere’, whilst providing the crew with STANAG compliant levels of protection and a hard kill capability to counter all short-range threats. Meanwhile, its closed cab demonstrates the benefits of a modular design, enabling the spiral development of a new capability requirement on a battle-proven in-service platform.

Supacat’s Armoured Closed Cab (ACC) HMT variant, which was launched last year at Defence Vehicle Dynamics 2024 (DVD24) is specifically designed to support UK MoD’s Land Mobility Programme’s fleet reduction to 15 core platform chassis types or less by 2030. Building on the inherent modularity of the HMT common base platform, this variant provides high levels of crew protection while maintaining sub-system commonality with other HMT variants, including the UK MoD’s Jackal and Coyote. Building air defence capability into its protection system is seen as key to its wider adoption by the British Army and other defence forces around the world.

Wider geopolitical unrest alongside the resulting high-intensity conflict of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has brought into stark reality that ground-based air defence capability remains an indispensable component of warfare. It was against this complex and prolific threat that the UK’s Land GBAD Programme was established in order to meet the Army’s requirement for a fully integrated Air Defence system of systems.  

Protection of the HMT ACC with RIwP is specifically designed to meet the requirements of both SHORAD (Short Range Air Defence) and C-SAT (Counter Small Aerial Targets) elements of the Land GBAD programme, alongside MRAD (medium range), C-SAT and All Arms Counter Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems and Command and Control.

With the Jackal 3 (4×4) and the Jackal 3e (6×6) in production, Supacat have the opportunity to exploit a live production line with the closed cab variant and conduct the integration of a SHORAD system.

Phil Applegarth, Director, Head of Supacat, said: “Our modular and highly versatile range of HMT have been designed to be agnostic of specific lethal and protective ancillaries but without doubt our partnership with Moog in this instance demonstrates the potency of two world class defence companies working together. I am really excited to be able to showcase this at IAV 2025.”
 
Moog’s EMEA Capture Lead and Representative, Richard Allen-Miles, said: “Moog are delighted to be working with Supacat at IAV 2025. With the British Army’s upcoming GBAD requirement in mind, together we’ll be showing the proven RIwP turret mounted onto Supacat’s highly capable new closed cab variant.

"This collaboration showcases Moog’s long legacy in precision weapon systems coupled with Supacat’s well-established track record in providing the army with robust, battle-proven mobility platforms. RIwP and HMT together make a compelling solution for the Army’s mounted SHORAD and C-SAT GBAD requirements.”