Turkish gendarmerie receives 4X4 armoured vehicles equipped with 120mm ALKAR mortar PHOTO/VIDEO

BMC’s VURAN armoured vehicles, integrated with ASELSAN’s ALKAR 120mm Automatic Mortar Weapon System, have been added to the Gendarmerie General Command inventory.

Vehicles equipped with automatic mortar systems provide fire support to counter-terrorism operations, according to TurDef.

The base model of the VURAN 4X4 armoured vehicle developed by BMC has a carrying capacity of nine personnel.

The mortar-carrier model differs from the others with its exterior appearance. While other cars have two doors on both sides, the truck bed of this vehicle is reserved for the mortar. It, therefore, has one door on each side. Unlike the others, the roof opens to the sides of this vehicle as two wings and the mortar emerges. There is also no turret and RCWS on top of this vehicle.

ASELSAN designed the ALKAR 120 mm Mortar Weapon System with its sub-systems. It is a modern weapon system with Automatic Barrel Laying, Automatic Ammunition Loading System (120 mm), Recoil Mechanism and Fire Control Systems.

120 mm. havan monteli VURAN araçları Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı envanterine girdi. pic.twitter.com/D38X5B0hJa

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