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.
BASE VEHICLEDefender 130 Hi-CapBUILT BYLand Rover (Defender 130 chassis) with Aselsan Zipkin PMADSIN SERVICE1997OPERATED INTurkeyPRODUCTION21LAYOUT4 wheels · 130″
The record
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.
Specification
MANUFACTURERLand Rover (Defender 130 chassis) with Aselsan Zipkin PMADS
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERAselsan (pedestal-mounted air defence system)
MANUFACTUREDZipkin in service from the late 1990s
ENGINELand Rover 300 Tdi / Td5 turbo-diesel (not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUN21 (naval service); more with the army
COUNTRY OF ORIGINTurkey
OPERATED INTurkey
STATUSin-service
ARMAMENT8 x FIM-92 Stinger in two pods; 12.7 mm machine gun
SENSORSThermal camera, laser rangefinder, IFF
ROLEShort-range air defence, Turkish Naval Forces amphibious marine brigade
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEDefender
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE130″
CATEGORYMilitary · Turkey
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.
Imagery
No published image yetA rendering impression or a free-licence photograph will appear here once one is published — the sources below link to photographs elsewhere
Where it was
TR Turkey1998–2026 · Turkish Navy and amphibious forces