ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Turkish manufacturer\u00a0Nurol Machinery\u00a0has penned the first export deal for its signature heavy armored vehicle, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The maker of the Ejder Yalcin said in a written statement that the first export contract involves a “North African country.” The company did not name the client country for secrecy clauses in the contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ejder Yalcin is a heavy armored combat vehicle with conventional and ballistic protection against mines and improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nurol Makina, a four-wheel drive tactical armored vehicles specialist, has sold more than 250 units of the Ejder Yalcin. Total orders have exceeded 500 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We have won the [export] deal after long efforts and negotiations,” said Engin Aykol, Nurol’s general manager. “What matters now is to win further export contracts.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nurol said it closed the deal after a round of recent successful desert tests with the Ejder Yalcin. The contract involves an unspecified number of the vehicle and a comprehensive integrated logistical support package, the company said.
Nurol’s sales jumped from a mere $5 million in 2012 to nearly $100 million in 2016, a 20-fold rise in a span of four years. \u00a0
The Ejder Yalcin is used both by the Turkish military and the police special forces, mostly in the country’s southeast where Kurdish militants have been fighting a violent separatist war since 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nurol is part of Nurol Holding Inc., which also partners in FNSS, another armored vehicle producer and a partnership between Nurol and BAE Systems; Nurol Technology, a defense technologies concern; and the newly launched BNA, a joint venture between Nurol and BAE specializing in subsystems for aerospace programs.
The maker of the Ejder Yalcin said in a written statement that the first export contract involves a \u201cNorth African country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":14,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[46,11,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3466],"class_list":["post-32598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-global","category-land"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"OC3IZ42XXJB43GUTVYXK2IPHBA","arc_canonical_url":"\/land\/2017\/03\/14\/nurol-finalizes-export-deal-for-turkish-armored-vehicle-ejder-yalcin\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n