The Tigr Kornet-D is fitted with a remote weapon station Kornet-D armed with two blocks of four Kornet-EM missile launchers. The Kornet- D launcher station can fire the newly upgraded missile 9M133M2 with has the capacity to fire at a maximum range of 8,000 m using a new tandem shaped-charge warhead and the 3-9M133FM missile with a thermobaric warhead at a maximum range of 10,000 m. The Kornet-D weapon station with the Kornet-EM missile can destroy all modern and future tanks, various fortifications (pillboxes, bunkers) and low-velocity aerial targets (helicopters, assault aircraft, and UAVs) in day&night and all-weather conditions under enemy ECM (Electronic Counter Measures) and optical jamming at a maximum range up to 8-10 km. The Kornet-D weapon station is fitted with an auto tracker sight that provides fire-and-forget capability increasing target tracking and ensuring a high probability of hit. It is capable of launching a salvo of two missiles less than a second apart, either at a single target or at two different targets simultaneously. The vehicle is also fitted with two smoke grenade dischargers mounted on each side on the front top side of the crew compartment. In the road position, the missile weapon station is stored inside the vehicle and erected on the roof to perform all the firing operations. 

The layout of the Tigr-M GAZ-233116 is standard with the engine at the front, the crew seats in the middle, and the troop’s compartment at the rear. The hull of Tigr-M GAZ-233116 provides protection against small-arms fire, shell fragments, and IED blasts. The hull and door windows are bulletproof and the vehicle’s spall liners protect personnel against spalls if the hull is hit by bullets or fragments and exclude ricochets from the opposite side if the hull is pierced. To protect the engine from small-arms fire, the bonnet is armored. The KORNET-D anti-tank weapon station is mounted on the top of the crew cabin.