Beyond this is support over the rear of the turret for a roof-mounted Remote Weapon Station (RWS) mounting various anti-infantry, anti-aircraft, and anti-drone solutions. This includes a fully-automated 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) with a stock of 2,500 x 7.62mm ammunition. A self-screening effect is made possible by the fully-integrated digital ROSY "smoke obscurance" system.
Protection is through general construction of the hull as well as add-on active / reactive armor and active / passive electronic protection against incoming armor-defeating missiles with attention also paid to "top-down" attacks through the Rheinmetall TAPS (Top Attack Protection System). The very shallow glacis plate and various angled faces give the tank basic ballistics protection from small-, medium-, and large-caliber fire.
Because of the standard autoloader and various other internal automation systems, the tank has a reduced crew of three from the typical Western tank operating crew of four personnel - this is a quality had with Soviet-era and modern Russian tank designs for decades. A single crewman (gunner) takes up a position in the turret while the remaining two (driver, commander / associate) are positioned side-by-side in the bow.
The vehicle commander is given access to the SEOSS 2 series commander's sighting device. This component features a multi-spectral camera system as well as in-built laser-rangefinder. Similarly, the gunner has access to the EMES gunner's sight at the turret's front-right for accurized at-range target selection and firing. The tank also has the ability to launch and support its own collection of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems = UASs (today known as "wingmen") and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs).
Should the KF51 design come to pass and be an accepted part of the new battlefield going forward - one, as shown clearly through the ongoing Ukrainian-Russian War, increasingly dominated by Anti-Tank, Guided-Missiles (ATGMs) and airborne attack drones - the system will truly revolutionize the warzone though this remains to be seen.
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