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the last five years. Our products are top class
products in their segments. Existing customer
orders and potential demand to our products
is a solid indicator of further future growth of
NMS eve in the near term.

Land Platforms sector is the most developed
industry in terms of the utilization of creating
indigenous designs and domestic participation
rate. Today, we are in a position to design all
types of 4x4 armored vehicles and special
purpose platforms that Turkish Army and
Security forces need, as soon as possible.
Another important indicator that shows the
point where land vehicles come from is the
export rate that the industry has made. A
significant portion of our country’s platform-
level exports is constituted by land vehicles.
Although our vehicles have proven themselves
in the Turkish market, our main goal is to be
active in foreign markets and to become an
armored vehicle supplier in global level. To this
end, we are carrying out intensive marketing
activities mainly in the Middle East, North
Africa and Eastern Europe countries. We have
already exported various vehicles to more
than 10 countries. Also in 2017 we made a deal
for high amount of Ejder Yalçın with a North
We are also proud that Ejder Yalçın 4x4 was also
African Ministry of Defence for the first time
one of the game changers in the survival of our
and we hope to continue to making more.
country against the ruthless criminals at the
July 15th coup attempt. There is a significant
interest in this advanced armored combat As always, we think that IDEF’17 will pass through
vehicle Ejder Yalçın 4x4 from Turkish and with the participation of a huge international
international users. The production capacity delegation. This year, IDEF has a different
has been increased significantly as briefly significance for us because we will launch a
outlined above to meet this high demand. neoteric armored vehicle, which will create a
new segment in the land platforms segment
ILGAZ 4x4 which was first developed on a in time. Another highlight in IDEF’17’s for us
commercial chassis, is designed as a Light is that Ejder Yalçın will not only be exhibited
Armored Vehicle by NMS. The experience in at our stand but also at the stand of other
developing armored vehicles provided NMS companies. Moreover, the visitors who come
to come up with a new, more efficient version, to our booth will face with some technological
ILGAZ II 4x4, emerged out in a new chassis products. As we are creating technology, we
which has been exported to an African country. will be using technology while introducing our
products. To keep up with today’s technology
This strong operational improvements have we will be using Virtual Reality which will have
been accompanied by intense marketing and permanent of one’s mind. In short, we will take
business development activities in local and place with our latest vehicles at IDEF 17’ and
international markets, as a result of which we are looking forward to exhibit in one of the
NMS had almost ten folds revenue increase for biggest defense fairs in the world.

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