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DSEI 2013: First showing for modular ROSY

6th September 2013 - 16:36 GMT | by Tim Fish in London

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A smaller variant of Rheinmetall’s Rapid Obscurant System (ROSY) smoke protection system known as the ROSY_Mod is being launched at DSEi.

The latest version is designed for small weapon stations, light vehicles and special operations vehicles. The company said that this system can be integrated directly onto a vehicle without a launcher so that it is undetectable.

Dr Jan-Phillipp Weisswange from Rheinmetall told Shephard: ‘I think the best way to describe the difference between ROSY_L and ROSY_Mod is that a magazine of a ROSY_L launcher has integrated a number of ROSY_Mod launchers. A single ROSY_Mod launcher can be integrated

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