At International Armoured Vehicles the Belgian Defence Company FN Herstal presents its new range of remote-controlled weapon station for light armoured vehicle, the deFNder Medium, designed to be used with the heavy machine gun .50 and the deFNder Light, designed to be used with machine-gun as FN MAG 7.62 or Minimi 5.56 mm.

Taking advantage of its long-standing firearms expertise FN Herstal designed and developped a complete new family of remote weapon stations called deFNder.

deFNder Weapon Stations provide optimized remote firing capability while keeping the operator completely under armor protection in order to meet today's operational requirements.

The deFNder Medium is the medium weight remote weapon station of FN ROWS family. It can integrate all FN herstal machine gun up to .50 caliber, including the exclusive M3 machine gun, and is capable of extended elevation operation angles. Various long-proven standard weapons can be fitted onto deFNder Medium as the 5.56 Minimi, 7.62 Minimi, MAG 7.62 mm, M2HB .50 caliber, and 40mm grenade launcher.

A broad range of optics, ammo box capacity and control handle can be installed to control the weapons station according to the choice of the customer.