At Eurosatory 2026, STORM Adapt Group AS signs a Rapid Adapt and Deploy System (RADS) application partnership agreement with ISTEC Services Limited, and launches the new RADS UniCAGE Universal Ring Mount. This new system is on display, fitted to a Ford Super Duty pickup, on the RMA Stand, Hall 4 E193.
This new addition to the STORM RADS lineup, based on the UniCAGE and integrated with ISTECs Universal Ring Mount, combines the pickup agnostic utility of RADS UniCAGE with the ability to mount various crew-served weapon systems, such as HMG, MMG and GPMG, to ISTEC’s universal ring mount without the need for permanent modification to the vehicle. In addition, to increase flexibility, the weapon system can be removed by a single operator and deployed away from the vehicle in a dismounted role. The integrated system is being qualified to the same firing-stability and safety requirements expected of a fixed mount, so the weapon platform remains fully removable without compromising accuracy or safety.
STORM Adapt Group AS is a Norwegian company that develops RADS, which is an open, modular, dual-use vehicle integration architecture for civil and defence use. RADS provides a fast, cost- effective and standardised way to integrate technology and equipment onto various pickup vehicles.
Built around the patented DockLock mounting system and the ArxLock external attachment rail, it lets a platform be reconfigured for changing roles and gives operators a new way to deploy capability and manage fleet logistics across a vehicle’s lifecycle.
ISTEC Services Ltd is a British company with 37 years of operationally proven experience in the design and manufacture of weapon integration solutions across the land, sea and air domains, including Universal Gun Mounts, Protected Weapon Stations and ring mount systems for 5.56mm, 7.62mm, 12.7mm and 40mm weapons. Platform and weapon agnostic, ISTEC mounts have been operationally proven on vehicles such as WMIK, Mastiff, Husky and Jackal, are fitted to Royal Navy vessels and most recently on the USAF’s Grey Wolf helicopter.
Andreas Rist EVP and Founder of STORM said, “This partnership is a perfect demonstration of engineering expertise being combined to increase the benefit to customers. The STORM RADS capability provides maximum utility and flexibility to the end user by being modular and platform agnostic, without the need for permanent modifications. It maintains a vehicle’s maximum potential use cases from transport, logistics, medical or in this instance as a weapon station. This aligns perfectly with ISTECs own ethos of being platform and weapon agnostic, and together, the RADS UniCAGE Universal Ring Mount provides the user with a supremely adaptable weapons station to enhance physical protection and increase firepower, both fitted to a vehicle or in the dismounted role.”
Jamie Armstrong, Chief Design Engineer ISTEC said, “RADS is an innovative engineering solution giving our mounts a unique standardised, vehicle-agnostic way to be fitted, moved and deployed in the dismounted role, without permanent vehicle modification. A single operator can drop a weapon platform at an observation post in the morning, then collect it and re-arm a different vehicle in the afternoon. STORM has built a smart, open platform, for enhancing the utility of pick-up trucks and partnering with them allows our weapon integration to be fitted to multiple vehicle types.”
