ROKIT was South Koreas first attempt at an indigenous tank design. It followed NATO design standards and doctrine but focused on mountain and forest warfare and followed Soviet low profile and packaging principals. It weighed between 36 and 45 tons depending on armor package.

It was an indigenous Korean developed alternative to the American Chrysler XM1 derived XK-1 for the bid for the K1.

>105mm gun with very high depression/elevation angles fed from a semi-automated bustle rack with blowout panels
>American V12 engine making 706hp-910hp with active cooling; modular APU and air conditioning installation options
>American transmission with 7 forward/3 reverse gears optimized for reliable fire and full speed reverse tactics
>Torsion bar suspension coupled to hydrogas shocks optimized for high variable elevation
>Protection against Soviet 100mm or 115mm on the front 1/3rd of the vehicle via modular steel & composite armor packs
>French supplied high performance digital optics with hunter killer ability and night fighting capability
>Low profile and low weight for optimized for mountain, amphibious and forest combat with in-field up armoring ability
>Semi-automated ammunition ejection and reloading via hatch and roller systems


It was killed as it cost 50% more than going with the Chrysler XM-1 derived proposals, econmically infeasible for South Korea at the time. Many of it's proposed designs were later integrated in the K2.