It's all the more resilient with the planned AMS.

I love that "pumpkin head of death". It is too. The helo can sit behind cover with the "pumpkin" seeing over and allowing ID and tracking of targets on the other side. That was the idea.

...and a huge deterrent I reckon.

Behind the MANPAD for want of a better word are quad 14.5mm heavy machine guns, still used along side the larger caliber 23mm autocannon (which can itself be found in double and quad mounts such as on the Soviet-era ZSU-23-4 Shilka).

BTW this is my first post. Excellent site with lots of great information. This article is particularly useful with the Australian army also fielding the M1.

WW2 (German) Panzers like the JagdPanzer (tank hunter) Hetzer light tank destroyer had the capacity for a remote weapons station, that being an MG-34/42 mounted in a blister on top. A number of Mk. V Panthers were also fitted with IR capability on turret top in form of an IR searchlight, range 600m. There were also…