On Friday, November 15, 2024, the Turkish company Aselsan announced on social media that it had signed a contract worth €16.632 million (PLN 68.29 million) with the Polish company AMZ-Kutno for the supply of radar and electro-optical systems for Light Armored Reconnaissance Carriers (LOTR) as part of the program codenamed Kleszcz. AMZ-Kutno is the supplier of LOTRs for the Polish Armed Forces.
Photo: AMZ-Kutno
The details of the agreement remain undisclosed, but it is likely to include 286 sets to meet the requirements of all Light Armored Reconnaissance Carriers planned for procurement under the framework agreement for the Kleszcz program signed on February 28 of this year. Deliveries are scheduled to continue until 2035. The first implementation contract, signed on August 14 of this year and valued at approximately 800 million PLN, covers the delivery of an initial batch of 28 vehicles, with deliveries starting in 2026. The possibility of technology transfer of Turkish solutions to Poland cannot be ruled out due to the scale of the demand.
According to the requirements of the Ministry of National Defense, the LOTR Kleszcz will be equipped with reconnaissance systems, including a tactical battlefield reconnaissance radar and an electro-optical turret. This will enable dynamic and continuous acquisition and collection of information about the enemy and the operational environment, as well as its processing and transmission as reconnaissance data to higher command levels.
The Turkish company offers the ATEŞ Mobile Border Security System (Mobil Sınır Güvenlik Sisteminin), developed for domestic services based on a 2019 agreement with the Turkish Ministry of the Interior (an initial order for 37 vehicle-mounted systems with an option to increase to 57 in the second phase, totaling approximately 30 million EUR). The system includes radar, a thermal imaging camera, and electro-optical sensors for integrated short-, medium-, and long-range surveillance, both day and night, and in all weather conditions. It monitors and records detected objects, marking their positions with geographic coordinates on digital terrain maps. The systems have been deployed along the borders with Greece and Bulgaria.
ASELSAN ile AB üyesi bir ülkedeki platform üreticisi arasında, radar ve elektro-optik sistemlerden oluşan faydalı yüklerin ihracatına ilişkin toplam tutarı 16.6 Milyon Avro olan satış sözleşmesi imzalanmıştır.
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A sales agreement with a total value of 16,6 Million Euros has been… pic.twitter.com/jPNLCPsqEb— ASELSAN (@aselsan) November 15, 2024