How can tanks fully rotate their turret and keep their electronics going?

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How do they supply the energy needed to run all the devices located in the turret if this one does a 360 degrees rotation?

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The same way the buttons on a modern passenger car steering wheel control the radio, dash ect.
A copper disc with contact points connecting buttons in the wheel with a computer. Instead of wires getting twisted in a circle. It’s a disc fixed to the vehicle and a disc attached to the wheel”turrent” in which no matter which position or how many times you spin it, the metal contacts conduct current

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