Multirole Weapon

In the last decade of the Cold War, the military shifted its attention to ‘multirole combat vehicles’ that could be used against both ground vehicles and aircraft. Most of the projects, although there weren’t too many of them to begin with, eventually got discarded, but some machines managed to see the light of day. The Italian OTO Melara company, for instance, created a new system with the sophisticated name of ‘OTO main anti-aircraft tank for intercept and combat’, better known as the ‘OTOMATIC’.