Instead, the machine is equipped with a guided anti-tank missile launcher mounted in the turret. This way, the launcher, and its contents are camouflaged and well-protected by tank armor.

The turret-equipped ASCOD armoured fighting vehicles will be delivered to an undisclosed Nato member state in Europe.

The optics stabilize and shape the weapon laser’s beam as it is aimed by the nose turret’s computer-controlled telescope at a target missile. Lockheed Martin Last February, off the California ...