On Friday, May 8, 2026, Slovenian company Valhalla Turrets presented on social media the Mangart 25 AD turret system following its integration with the chassis of the Finnish Patria AMV (Armoured Modular Vehicle) 8×8 wheeled armored personnel carrier, which is known in Poland as the license-built KTO Rosomak.
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The presentation took place to mark the 35th anniversary of the formation of the Air Defence Regiment of the Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence.
This is an anti-aircraft variant of the Mangart 25 turret system, intended for short-range air defense (SHORAD). Its main armament is a four-axis stabilized, single-barrel M242 Bushmaster automatic cannon produced by the U.S. company Northrop Grumman, fed from both sides with 25 mm x 137 rounds and capable of using proximity-fuzed, high-explosive fragmentation, armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, and tracer training ammunition.
The turret is 770 mm high, 2,296 mm wide, and 2,643 mm long, and weighs 2,200 kg, depending on configuration. Its key components are protected to STANAG 4569 Level 1. The ammunition load is 400 rounds, including 210 in the turret and 190 spare rounds in the hull. Alternatively, the manufacturer declares the possibility of integrating the German Rheinmetall KBA cannon or the French KNDS France 25M811. Additional armament consists of two quadruple upgraded 76 mm smoke grenade launchers.
The system can fire at elevations from -15° to +85° and through 360° in azimuth, with an angular velocity of >1 rad/s and a minimum angular velocity of less than 0.7 mrad/s.
The system can be used against unmanned aerial vehicles, hovering helicopters, low-flying aircraft, and other aerial targets, as well as ground targets at ranges of up to 3,000 m. It is equipped with an AESA active electronically scanned array radar and an electro-optical target detection and tracking system with day and night cameras, an automatic video tracker, and full connectivity with a C2-class command system for networked air defense operations.
The company also offers the possibility of integrating an infrared warning system, laser designator, acoustic gunshot direction detection system, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, miniature unmanned systems, or machine-learning/artificial intelligence algorithms for faster and improved target detection, identification, and tracking. The turret is equipped with a weather station and an IFF identification friend-or-foe system.
The turret complies with the MIL-STD-461G military standard for electromagnetic compatibility and the MIL-STD-810G environmental standard.
On October 21-24, 2025, at the first SIDEC 2025 international defense exhibition and conference in Celje, Slovenia, the turret was presented integrated with the MV-8 Komodo unmanned ground platform from Croatian company DOK-ING, which has been part of Germany’s Rheinmetall AG group since March this year.
The MANGART 25 AD turret by @ValhallaTurrets made its first official presentation integrated on the Patria 8×8 platform. pic.twitter.com/dYbb2wZGGK
— VALHALLA TURRETS (@ValhallaTurrets) May 8, 2026
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