Patent ID: 8549980

Claim:
Handling system for a weapon placed on a turret, said weapon being frontally provided with a barrel from which bullets are shot and at a rear being provided with a handle through which an operator determines traverse of the weapon around a vertical axis passing through a center of a base of the weapon, said weapon being mounted on a circumferential fifth wheel comprising a fixed portion integral with the turret and a movable portion upon which the weapon itself is mounted, in order that the movable fifth wheel rotates on the fixed portion, permitting movement of the weapon along the circumference of the fifth wheel comprising: handling means for rotation of the fifth wheel, a sensor assembly adapted to recognize the traverses around the axis imposed by the operator to the weapon, towards the right in a clockwise direction or towards the left in a counterclockwise direction, and to indicate when the traverse, reaches a predefined right or left limit angle, and a control unit adapted to detect information from the sensors and actuate rotation of the fifth wheel, in the same direction of traverse of the weapon through the handling means, when the traverse of the, weapon around the axis reach the predefined limit angles.