HAVELSAN · military or security robot
KAPGAN
An armed tracked ground robot first exhibited at SAHA EXPO 2022; it completed its first test firing in January 2023.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A prototype machine from HAVELSAN.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
HAVELSANCompany · founded 1982 · Ankara, TurkeyPublic attention
How much public attention KAPGAN gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Tracks
- How it runs
- Supervised. Its maker describes autonomous patrol and route planning with an operator overseeing it over a data link; its gun needs a person to authorise firing, so it is at most supervised for that.
- Actuators & motors
- Electric motor drive
- Battery & power
- About 6 hours of operation
- AI & software
- Designed for autonomous team (swarm) operation with other HAVELSAN unmanned vehicles under the 'digital unit' concept
- Other details
- 3.2 m long, 1.75 m wide, 1,400 kg, 600 kg useful load, top speed 25 km/h; armed variant
From the maker
KAPGAN is the only machine from HAVELSAN in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Prototype; first live-fire test January 2023
- Sold or delivered
- HAVELSAN planned Turkish Armed Forces service from 2024 (not confirmed in sources opened)
- Where it is sold or used
- Turkey
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- KAPGAN completes first test fire
HAVELSAN's armed UGV completed its first firing test ahead of planned 2024 service.
Overt Defense - KAPGAN shown at SAHA EXPO 2022
HAVELSAN displayed the KAPGAN armed UGV for the first time in Istanbul.
Overt Defense
Sources
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