The anti-tank vehicles programme, STA (Silah Taşıyıcı Araç – Weapons Carrying Vehicle) in Turkish, aims at the upgrade of the Turkish Army’s platforms in the mechanized and motorized units. In addition, the vehicles will feature the Roketsan OMTAŞ medium-range anti-tank weapons in turrets. SSM plans to acquire 260 anti-tank weapons platforms, of which, 184 will be tracked and 76 wheeled.

FNSS’ offer is based on the Kaplan and Pars, tracked and wheeled vehicle respectively. It is expected that the wheeled vehicle will be the Pars 4x4, which was first unveiled in IDEF 2015. It was originally designed to undertake anti-tank, surveillance or C2 missions.

The tracked version will be based on the Kaplan infantry fighting vehicle. Kaplan had been presented at IDEF 2013 with a mock-up turret featuring four launchers of OMTAŞ anti-tank missiles, a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and EO/IR sensors.