Initially the most popular direction was to buy a license for the Hitfist OWS unmanned turret with the rights to produce the majority of components domestically, however it was ultimately rejected as it was feared that the new turret would encounter identical issues, since they were caused mainly by poor cooperation between the Polish industry and Leonardo.

Both contenders offered similar designs - closed turret structure protecting all the mechanisms and electronics with a separate container for ATGMs.

The program was delayed several times due to the timeframe being unrealistically short and because the MoD, still remembering problems with the Hitfist-30P, decided to eliminate most of the foreign components from the design.

[1] On October 1, 2021, the turret system had officially completed the trials with a positive result, which opened the way to negotiations between the MoD and the manufacturer and to serial production.

[5] On November 21, 2022, WB Group contracted PCO with the production of 70 GOD-1 "Iris" and 70 GOC-1 "Nike" sights for the first batch of ZSSW-30 turrets.

[6] On the Defence24 Day conference which took place in May 2023, Remigiusz Wilk, communications director of the WB Group talked about the development and future of the ZSSW-30 turret.

Mk44S (Stretch) is a variant of the standard Mk44 gun that can be adapted to fire the 40×180mm SuperShot40 ammunition by swapping just a few components (including the barrel).

[1] The gun has a dual feed system and is fed from the left side by two ammunition racks located on the left side of the turret - the smaller one, containing around 100 armor piercing rounds and the bigger one containing around 200 multi purpose rounds, which makes the turret's first stage ammunition rack one of the biggest among similar systems.

[1] For engaging heavily armored targets, ZSSW-30 is equipped with two Spike-LR anti-tank guided missiles located in a launch container mounted to the right side of the turret.

Spike-LR is an Israeli fifth generation anti-tank guided missile that features both fire-and-forget and command guidance operating modes.

[19] It also integrates third party target designation for indirect fire through its lock-on after launch capability for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) use.

[1] The missile offers three different operating modes: The use of a separate ATGM launch container has some advantages compared to other systems where a launcher extends directly from an internal compartment of the turret.

[1] For protection, the turret is equipped with eight 81 mm smoke grenade launchers, four on the left side and four on the front to the right of the main gun.

The night vision camera has a French 3rd generation (640 × 512 px) image sensor which works in the wavelength spectrum of 8 to 12 μm.

[24]The gunner's sight provides elevation angles from -10° to 60° and is equipped with an eye-safe laser rangefinder and two optical channels: daytime, with a light intensity sensor and thermal.

[24] The night vision camera has a French 3rd generation (640 × 512 px) image sensor which works in the wavelength spectrum of 3 to 5 μm.

[1] Both the gunner and the commander have an auto-tracker integrated into their FCS, which substantially increases automation of the entire firing process.