Kaplan (Bombenentschaerfungsroboter)

Strong enough to drag a car away, the Kaplan is Aselsan's tracked EOD robot: a seven-axis arm with disruptor on a sprung tracked chassis that climbs stairs and copes with snow, mud and water, with electronics rated from -30 to +69 degrees Celsius.

Aselsan of Ankara, Turkey's largest defence electronics company, first showed the robot in 2012; the Turkish Gendarmerie took delivery in 2020 and the Turkish National Police also uses it. One battery charge gives 15 km of driving or 4 h of disposal work, controlled remotely from up to 500 m with cameras providing the view. Modular payloads cover reconnaissance, mine detection and electronic warfare.

Weight and lift capacity are not published, so those fields remain empty; Aselsan's medium UGV Aslan builds on the Kaplan but likewise has no released data. The Kaplan is unarmed and has no armed variants; status is in service, pricing on request. Poland's heavy EOD robot is the PIAP IBIS (300 kg, 50 kg lift), the American counterpart the Kobra 725 lifting 150 kg.

Aselsan also supplies the SARP-L weapon stations fitted to Turkish combat UGVs such as the Barkan.