Zipkin PMADS Defender
Aselsan's Zipkin pedestal-mounted air defence system on a Land Rover Defender: a turret with two four-round FIM-92 Stinger pods, a 12.7 mm machine gun and an electro-optical sensor head on a camouflaged Defender 130 body, with 21 in Turkish naval and amphibious marine brigade service.
History
Zipkin (Turkish for 'harpoon') is Aselsan's pedestal-mounted short-range air defence system, developed alongside the tracked Atilgan for the Turkish armed forces. On the Defender the pedestal turret sits on a flat box body behind a single cab and carries two four-round Stinger launcher pods, a 12.7 mm machine gun, a thermal camera, laser rangefinder and IFF, networked to the battery command post; the crew fire from inside the cab or by remote. defenceturk.net's photograph shows the vehicle in three-tone camouflage with a snorkel, whip aerials on the bonnet and wing and louvred body sides. The Turkish Naval Forces' list of equipment records 21 Zipkin systems for the navy and its amphibious marine brigade, alongside those of the army.
The registry's model is a Defender 130 in camouflage with the snorkel, aerials, black grille, louvred box body and the pedestal turret with Stinger pods and gun; in the game the turret fires and can be jettisoned as cargo. The queue's own image link pointed at a Phalanx CIWS thumbnail, so the user-supplied defenceturk.net photograph was used instead.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Defender 130 chassis) with Aselsan Zipkin PMADS
- Manufactured
- Zipkin in service from the late 1990s
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Aselsan (pedestal-mounted air defence system)
- Engine type
- Land Rover 300 Tdi / Td5 turbo-diesel (not stated in the source)
- Production run
- 21 (naval service); more with the army
- Country of origin
- Turkey
- Operated in
- Turkey
- Status
- in-service
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 130″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- List of equipment of the Turkish Naval Forces ↗ — Wikipedia (accessed 2026-09-11)
- Zipkin ↗ — DefenceTurk (accessed 2026-09-11)
- Zipkin pedestal mounted Stinger system ↗ — DefenceTalk (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://www.defenceturk.net/zipkin https://www.defenceturk.net/zipkin ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T15:04:13.602Z · status: researched