What Is the YÖRÜK 4×4? Nurol Makina’s Light Armored Vehicle: Key Features and Specs

The YÖRÜK 4×4 is Nurol Makina's light tactical armored vehicle, a compact derivative of the combat-proven EJDER YALÇIN that has quietly become one of Türkiye's more successful protected-mobility exports. Marketed abroad as the NMS 4×4, it was bought by Estonia for its 2nd Infantry Brigade and by Qatar, while at home SSB lists the national police as its user.

At a glance

What is the YÖRÜK 4×4?

Nurol Makina set out to package MRAP-style blast protection into a lighter and faster vehicle. The result is a V-hulled monocoque weighing about 8 tonnes empty, with roughly 4 tonnes of payload margin for turrets, sensors or missile launchers. That margin lets one hull serve as a police special-operations vehicle, a reconnaissance platform or an anti-tank carrier.

Nurol offers the vehicle as an armored personnel carrier, missile carrier, air-defense, anti-tank, reconnaissance and SWAT vehicle, in single- and double-cab pickup form and as a radar carrier. An extended-wheelbase version shown at IDEF 2023 raised seating from seven to eleven.

Key features and specs

The YÖRÜK measures 4.9 m long, 2.4 m wide and 2.1 m high and weighs about 8 tonnes curb and roughly 10 tonnes gross. The baseline carries nine people, and the extended-wheelbase version up to eleven. A 300 hp diesel producing 813 Nm drives a permanent 4×4 through an automatic transmission, giving a manufacturer-claimed top speed of up to 140 km/h and a range of about 700 km. It handles a 70% gradient, a 40% side slope, a 0.5 m step, a 0.9 m trench and 90 cm of fording.

Protection covers mines, IEDs and side blast, with scalable composite armor. A remote weapon station can mount a 7.62 mm or 12.7 mm machine gun or a 40 mm grenade launcher, with anti-tank missile and air-defense options. Independent suspension, a locking-differential driveline, ABS, run-flat tires and dual-side firing ports reflect its internal-security heritage.

Program, service and exports

Nurol Makina designs and builds the vehicle in Ankara. It debuted at IDEF 2017 and, according to Turkish sources, entered series production in 2018. SSB's September 2026 note places YÖRÜK in the security and logistics vehicles portfolio with the General Directorate of Security as user but gives no contract date, which points to a company-funded product procured off the shelf. Turkish reporting from June 2023 identified the presidential protection service as the first domestic operator, with vehicles carrying ASELSAN's SARP ZAFER remote weapon station. Quantities are not public.

Exports are where YÖRÜK has made its name. Army Technology reports that Qatar ordered around 100 vehicles in 2017, paraded them in December 2017 and ordered more for its special forces in March 2018. Open-source imagery shows the type with Chad's forces since 2018, and trade press reports it with Indonesian police special units. The landmark deal came on 18 October 2023, when the Estonian Centre for Defence Investment signed for about 100 NMS 4×4s worth roughly 70 million euros, heavily modified with enhanced anti-armor capability. Nurol says it has signed YÖRÜK contracts with five countries.

After IDEF 2017 the vehicle went to Eurosatory 2018 with the EJDER YALÇIN, a pickup variant followed at IDEF 2021 and the extended-wheelbase model at IDEF 2023. In 2025 Nurol introduced the lighter NMS-L derivative at FEINDEF in Madrid. No local content percentage has been published; hull design, armor and integration are Nurol's, the intellectual property sits in Türkiye and ASELSAN stations add further Turkish content.

YÖRÜK competes with the Oshkosh JLTV, Iveco LMV, Arquus Sherpa Light and Plasan SandCat. Its pitch of nine to eleven seats, a V-hull and high road speed in a roughly 10-tonne package was competitive enough to win a NATO army's tender.

Source: Envanter Medya