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Before taking a look at land forces sector and been extended. Construction of a new test
IDEF’17 Exhibition, it would be beneficial to area construction is going on. This is how NMS
briefly mention about the developments of started to gain success and develop as the
Nurol Makina ve Sanayi A.S. (NMS). As a 4x4 time passes by. As of September 2015, NMS
tactical wheeled armored vehicle designer achieved the Research & Development Center
and producer, NMS is one of the strong assets status by the Ministry of Science, Industry and
of the Turkish Defense Industry today and Technology.
is a reflection of the strong commitment of
Nurol Holding to the development and growth Today NMS supplies the most reliable and
of Turkish Defense Industry in terms of self- effective armored 4x4 wheeled vehicles in
sustainability, technological superiority and their respective segments. For example; Ejder
export volume. TOMA®, which has military chassis and is the 4x4
wheeled, armored and quite improved version
NMS started to get involved in defense industry of TOMA® anti-riot vehicles, is a success story
as a subsystem manufacturer for armored for NMS. Ejder TOMA® was developed under
vehicles in 1992. Also, Nurol Makina designed, the contract by Undersecretariat for Defense
developed and manufactured various types Industries (SSM) which signed in December
of shelters including NATO ACE III Shelter and 2012. This project was a milestone for NMS as
assembled respective electronics assemblies the company became a platform level main
and sensors. In 1994, Turkey’s first 6x6 Tactical contractor of SSM for the first time. Currently,
Wheeled Vehicle, RN-94 was produced by NMS. Ejder TOMA® is used not only by Turkish Police
and Gendarmerie but also by Turkish Land
NMS diversified her business lines to include Forces and plays an active role for the Border
internal security vehicles in 2002. The initial Security and offers effective solutions for the
vehicle program was the development of anti- prevention of ensuring internal security and
riot vehicles. Those anti-riot, TOMA®, vehicles border violations. Ejder TOMA® reached to a
are still being used by the National Police and great success as it entered to inventories of
the Gendarmerie Command of Turkey as well many international users.
as various allied countries.
Ejder Yalçın 4x4, is another success story for
New 4x4 vehicle designs have been made by NMS in the last four years. According to Nurol
Ejder 6x6 experiences, called EJDER family Holding corporate values, the armored vehicle
vehicles. Ejder Yalçın 4x4 have been made by business is not a usual business to make profit
defining engineering vision not as a follower as a priority but is a business to assure the
the existing trends and vehicles in the market, safety of most valued combatants as a priority.
but as an authentic/indigenous platform We never sacrifice superior protection, high
supplier, exceeding customer expectations mobility and effectiveness requirements of
and leading the segment with her state-of-the the armed and security forces in our products.
solutions. Ejder Yalçın 4x4, being the only armored
combat vehicle with the highest ballistic and
2012 was a turning point for NMS, when the mine protection capabilities, provides tactical
company experienced a total paradigm shift in superiority to armed and security forces in
the organization. New vision and mission have the high security risk as well as combat areas.
been set to NMS and an ambitious corporate Moreover, Ejder Yalçın is the most advanced
strategy has been defined to reach the vision platform in our country in terms of survival
by the new management. The change in the and mobility characteristics in the Armored
organization has been managed so effectively Combat Vehicle segment and is a vehicle
that NMS experienced a substantial growth for that proved itself in the field. Today, we have
the last five years. The employee number has increased our production capacity and Ejder
increased from 110 in 2012 to 470 in 2016, 20% Yalçın production, has reached the position to
of our employees are engineer. Utilization of deliver hundreds of units per year.
the manufacturing and the assembly lines has

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