Katmerciler · military or security robot
UKAP
A tracked remote-controlled weapon platform fitted with an ASELSAN stabilised turret, ordered by the Turkish Armed Forces in 2018.
- 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
UKAP is on the market today.
Real-world use
Turkish Armed Forces
Public attention
How much public attention UKAP 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
- Remote-controlled. An operator drives it and controls its turret remotely, and any firing is decided by that person.
- Actuators & motors
- Tracked; hybrid battery/generator power; up to 25 km/h
- Sensors & vision
- ASELSAN SARP turret with day and night imaging, laser rangefinder and automatic target tracking
- Battery & power
- About 5 hours on battery or 8 hours with the generator (maker figures)
- Other details
- Second long-range remote control unit; turret takes a 12.7 mm or 7.62 mm machine gun or 40 mm grenade launcher (as published)
From the maker
UKAP is the only machine from Katmerciler (with ASELSAN SARP turret) in the atlas.
Watch UKAP
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
- Serial production started by June 2018
- Sold or delivered
- 20+ ordered by Turkey's defence procurement agency
- Where it is sold or used
- Turkey (Katmerciler, with ASELSAN turret)
- Customers and pilots
- Turkish Armed Forces
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- UKAP enters serial production
Shephard reported serial production had begun and 20 UKAPs would be delivered in batches after live-fire trials.
Shephard - Turkey orders armed UGVs
Turkey's defence procurement agency said more than 20 Katmerciler UKAP vehicles were ordered for the armed forces.
The Defense Post
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | UKAPKatmerciler (with ASELSAN SARP turret) |  MilošMilitary Technical Institute (designer); PPT Namenska (maker)Same job: fire support · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |  Uran-9JSC 766 UPTK (later Kalashnikov Concern)Same job: fire support · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2017-05 | 2017 | 2016-09 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | — | 250 cm |
| Weight | — | 430 kg | 10000 kg |
| Joints | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | 12.5 km/h | 35 km/h |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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