Otokar Tulpar AFV with HITFACT MkII 120 mm turret at WDS 2024. (Janes/Sunil Nair)

Turkish company Otokar displayed the Tulpar armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) fitted with Leonardo’s Highly Integrated Technology, Fire Against Combat Tank (HITFACT) MkII 120 mm smoothbore gun turret at the World Defense Show (WDS) 2024 held in Riyadh from 4 to 8 February.

Otokar’s Tulpar is a family of medium-weight tracked AFVs designed to provide a user with a single common platform that can perform multiple roles.

The HITFACT MkII turret is armed with an Oto Melara-developed 120 mm/45 calibre high-pressure autofrettaged low-recoil smoothbore gun that is fitted with a thermal sleeve, fume extractor, pepper pot muzzle brake, and muzzle reference system (MRS). The MRS allows the gunner to boresight the 120 mm smoothbore gun from within the turret to take into account changing ambient temperatures that can take place over a 24-hour period.

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