The Serdar remote weapon station (RWS) developed jointly by Turkey’s Aselsan and Ukraine’s Luch Design Bureau has passed its final trials and is now ready to enter serial production under an existing contract for a foreign country, the Ukrainian state defence export company SpetsTechnoExport announced on 5 June.
Serdar remote weapon stations are seen fitted to Ejder Yalçın;in vehicles during Qatar's military parade on 18 December 2018.Photo by: Arif Akdogan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
“The qualifying trials related specifically to the Skif missile launching system and showed that it has been integrated according to the customer’s requests”, SpetsTechnoExport press secretary Vadym Shkliar told Jane’s .
The only known customer for the Serdar was revealed in December 2018, when the RWS was seen installed on more than a dozen Turkish-made Ejder Yalçin armoured vehicles during Qatar’s annual military parade.