Air

Oto Melara, through its branch Breda Meccanica Bresciana, equipped Italian aircraft with its rapid-fire armament up to the 2^nd World War.
 
In the 1980s, due to Italian Air Force requirements, Oto Melara began to produce under licence the 20 mm M61A1 Vulcan installed on the AMX attack aircraft as well as the GAU-12/U 25mm Gatling gun installed on Italian Navy AV-8B Plus Harriers.
 
Oto Melara, in the fixed-wing aircraft field, is also active in the Eurofighter Typhoon programme for which it designed and produced the linkless conveyor for the Mauser  27mm gun.
 
New warfare scenarios require increasing pinpoint accuracy for fixed-wing aircraft; the percentage of the so-called "smart" bombs among air forces inventories is steadily increasing.
 
Oto Melara entered this field through licence agreements with Boeing and Raytheon and is acting as prime contractor for contracts with the Italian Air Force and Navy.