On Monday, 3 November 2025, the Turkish company Aselsan announced in its published Newsletter No. 13 on current activities that it had delivered the first ARSUS 100 mast-mounted reconnaissance system to a NATO customer. According to the released information, the system was delivered to AMZ-Kutno, which integrated it with the Kleszcz Light Armored Reconnaissance Carrier (LOTR).
Photo: Aselsan
“(…) ASELSAN also delivered ARSUS 100 Reconnaissance and Surveillance System to Poland, marking its first deployment within NATO. Integrated onto AMZ KUTNO vehicles, the system offers high-resolution surveillance, day-night operation capability, moving target tracking, and long-range communications. Its robust design enables effective performance in reconnaissance missions, border security, and critical infrastructure protection. Deliveries under this contract will continue through 2026 and 2027.” reads the newsletter.
On 15 November 2024 Aselsan announced that it had signed a contract worth 16.632 million EUR (68.29 million PLN at the time) with AMZ-Kutno for the supply of radar and electro-optical systems for the LOTR Kleszcz. On 2 September of this year, on the first day of the XXXIII International Defence Industry Exhibition (MSPO) in Kielce, the companies signed an agreement expanding their cooperation.
The details of the agreement were not disclosed at the time, but it likely covered 286 sets for all vehicles planned under the LOTR Kleszcz framework contract signed on 28 February 2024, with deliveries scheduled to continue until 2035. The first implementation contract, signed on 14 August 2024 and valued at approx. 800 million PLN, covers the first batch of 28 vehicles to be delivered starting in 2026. Given the scale of demand, a transfer of Turkish technologies to Poland cannot be ruled out.
According to the requirements of the Ministry of National Defense, the LOTR Kleszcz was to be equipped with reconnaissance systems, including a tactical battlefield surveillance radar and an electro-optical sensor head. This will enable dynamic and continuous acquisition and collection of information on the enemy and the operational environment, as well as its processing and transmission as reconnaissance data to higher command levels.
ARSUS 100 is a compact reconnaissance system mounted on a stabilized mast, combining a long-range radar with an EO/IR electro-optical sensor head for day- and night-time operation, as well as a dead-reckoning navigation system. It is designed for target detection, identification, automatic tracking, and real-time streaming of video, audio, and data. This provides precise coordinates for fire support, enabling the vehicle to act as a forward observer within digital command-and-control networks (C2). It also supports C4I-class system interfaces, enabling rapid dissemination of intelligence across various levels of command.
The system was developed based on experience gained from the ATEŞ mobile border security system (Mobil Sınır Güvenlik Sisteminin), created for domestic services under a 2019 agreement with the Turkish Ministry of Interior (37 sets were ordered in the first phase, with an option to increase to 57 in the second — totaling approx. 30 million EUR). The system consists of a radar, a thermal camera, and electro-optical sensors for integrated short-, medium-, and long-range surveillance, day and night and in all weather conditions. It monitors and records detected objects, marking their position with geographic coordinates on digital terrain maps. The sets were deployed on the borders with Greece and Bulgaria.
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