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MKE Unveils TOLGA Dual 20mm Naval Gun After Sea Trials
Turkish state manufacturer MKE has unveiled a naval version of its TOLGA short-range air defence...
MKE Unveils TOLGA Dual 20mm Naval Gun After Sea Trials
Turkish state manufacturer MKE has unveiled a naval version of its TOLGA short-range air defence...
Turkish state manufacturer MKE has unveiled a naval version of its TOLGA short-range air defence...
Türkiye's navy chief says Ankara wants to start building warships jointly with Egypt under the...
Türkiye–Spain defence trade has been one-way for thirty years, and it is only now turning...
ASELSAN has switched on two new solar power plants that the company says now cover...
ASELSAN has shown off the MERCAN 100, a submarine optronic mast system designed to give...
Türkiye still imports major weapons, and the three countries that supply most of them are...
The Eurofighter consortium is pitching Türkiye a second batch of 24 new-build Typhoons on top...
Turkish naval forces will run the maritime leg of the first large-scale exercise staged by...
Aselsan
ASELSAN: The Company Behind Türkiye’s Defence Electronics
ASELSAN is Türkiye's largest defence company and now a global top-40 contractor. Ownership, revenue, backlog, exports and what it actually...
Air Platforms
KAAN Fighter Programme: Status, Orders and Engine Timeline
Where Türkiye's KAAN fighter programme stands in 2026: flight-test status, the 20-aircraft Turkish order, Indonesia's 48 jets and the engine...
Defense Companies
Baykar Plans a 250 Million Dollar Investment in Africa
Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturer Baykar is reported to be planning an investment of around 250 million dollars on the African...
Defense Electronics & Cyber
New Electronic Warfare Contract Between ASELSAN and the SSB
A new electronic warfare system development contract has been signed between the Presidency of Defence Industries and ASELSAN. Under the...
Unmanned Systems
Armed Unmanned Surface Vessel ULAQ Enters Service
ULAQ, Turkey’s first armed unmanned surface vessel (USV), has entered service with the Naval Forces. Developed through cooperation between Meteksan...
Land Systems
FNSS’s European Partnership: What Is Confirmed, and What Is Not
FNSS's European partnership is with CSG and centres on the tracked CFL-120 Karpat, not the PARS ALPHA. No value was...
Defense Exports & Cooperation
Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan Give the Mecca Defence Pact an Institutional Backbone
Türkiye hosted the first Mecca Defence Alliance meeting with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, agreeing a Riyadh secretariat and defence-industrial cooperation.
Baykar
Why Do Countries Buy Turkish Drones? The Real Reasons
Turkish drones sell on export rules, price and delivery speed more than performance. The real reasons countries buy them, and...
Baykar
Baykar: The Company Behind Türkiye’s Combat Drones
Who owns Baykar, what it earns, where it exports — and why the maker of the Bayraktar TB2 and KIZILELMA...
Baykar
Bayraktar TB2: Programme Status, Operators and Exports
Where the Bayraktar TB2 programme stands in 2026: operators and export contracts, the Canadian sensor ban and what changed, prices...
ASELSAN's GÜRZ hybrid air defence system carried out its first live-fire field activity on September...
Partly — and the dividing line is the subsystem, not the flag on the airframe....
ASFAT is the Turkish Ministry of National Defence's own commercial company. Founded in January 2018...
CTech, the communications-systems subsidiary of Turkish Aerospace, used MSPO 2026 in Kielce to pitch NATO...
Artificial intelligence has stopped being a conference slide in Turkish defence. In the space of...
ASELSAN's KGK-84 winged guidance kit has cleared its first qualification firing from a Turkish Air...
For years the weak spot of Turkish surface combatants was not the missile but the...
Turkey's state-owned defence manufacturer MKE (Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) signed a memorandum of understanding...
Most of the bombs a Turkish fighter or drone drops are still heavy, and most...
Türkiye sent its largest-ever delegation to Euronaval 2026, the biennial naval defence exhibition running November...
Roketsan has test-fired its LEVENT naval point-defence missile from a standalone launcher configuration and struck...
Türkiye's aircraft engines are built almost entirely by one company: TEI, TUSAŞ Engine Industries, at...