With its dual-tube approach, the UTS-15 can house seven shells to a tube (six with 3") which, with a shell also chambered, provides the shooter with fifteen total shots. The operator can then work from the ammunition in each tube by way of a selector switch found on top of the weapon or set the function to alternate evenly between the two tubes automatically, the system chambering shells from each tube in turn and therefore using up the ammunition stock equally. The selector certainly proves useful when chambering various types of shot. The tube counts are visually monitored through open cut-outs along each magazine side as well as numbered from 0 to 7.
UTAS currently markets several UTS-15 forms, mostly differentiated by finish. This ranges from desert to marine and black to OD green. Shooters have found the weapon to be of good form while some stoppages have been blamed on the magnetically-closed dust cover over the ejection port - this attracting the metal found on the ejecting spent shell casings.
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