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Does Türkiye Build Its Own Submarines? MİLDEN and Reis
Not yet — and the honest answer matters more than the slogan. Every submarine in...
ASELSAN’s GÖKSUR 100-N, the point-defence missile system Türkiye is developing to protect its own warships...
STM is spending September on the road. Türkiye's state-linked defence engineering company will carry its...
Poland's president spent part of his second day at MSPO 2026 walking the Turkish section...
Romania's vessel came through an intergovernmental agreement rather than a commercial contract, one of three...
Baykar is the privately held Turkish company that designs and builds the Bayraktar TB2, TB3,...
Defense Exports & Cooperation
Does Türkiye Build Its Own Submarines? MİLDEN and Reis
Türkiye builds submarines under German licence at Gölcük but has never designed or exported one. Where MİLDEN, the Reis class...
Baykar
SİVRİSİNEK Drone Reportedly Spotted in Azerbaijani Service
Images suggest Baykar's SİVRİSİNEK loitering munition is in Azerbaijani service in Nakhchivan, though neither Ankara nor Baku has confirmed any...
Missiles & Air Defense
TAYFUN Blok-2 Missile: Land Forces Take Delivery of a Third Batch
Türkiye's Land Forces received a third batch of Roketsan's TAYFUN Blok-2 missile in 2026, MSB says, as HÜRKUŞ-II's acceptance ceremony...
Baykar
Bayraktar KALKAN Makes First Flight From TCG Anadolu as PİRANA Sinks Target
A VTOL drone launched from TCG Anadolu and MKE's PİRANA kamikaze boat destroyed a target as Türkiye's Denizkurdu-I/2026 naval exercise...
Air Defense Systems
ASELSAN, ROKETSAN Sign €1.23 Billion Air Defence Deal
ASELSAN will supply air defence sub-components worth €1.23 billion to ROKETSAN, a KAP filing shows, as Türkiye scales up its...
Defense Companies
Turkish Defence Factories Abroad: Where Türkiye Builds
Turkish firms own plants in Italy, Romania, the US and Egypt — but mostly minority stakes elsewhere. Who owns what...
Defense Companies
Altınay Defense Opens UK Subsidiary in Push for ‘Global 100’
Turkish supplier Altınay Defense has opened a UK subsidiary, Altınay Aerospace Technologies International, to expand exports and NATO industry ties.
Air Defense Systems
Turaç Unveils Drone Kalkanı, a Shotgun-Armed Anti-Drone Turret
Turkish ammunition maker Turaç has unveiled Drone Kalkanı, a twin-shotgun turret that shreds small drones at 150 metres, debuting at...
Land Systems
Roketsan’s KARAOK Anti-Tank Missile Scores First Hit on Aerial Target
Roketsan says its man-portable KARAOK anti-tank missile has hit an aerial target for the first time, adding a possible counter-drone...
Defense Exports & Cooperation
Turkish DUMRUL Mini Helicopter Debuts at NATO’s REPMUS 2026
TITRA Teknoloji's DUMRUL mini unmanned helicopter is flying mission scenarios at NATO-adjacent exercise REPMUS 2026 in Portugal, a first for...
At the SAHA EXPO 2026 fair held in İstanbul, contracts worth a total of 8...
The SUNGUR air defence missile system is ROKETSAN's answer to the lowest and most crowded...
Altınay Defense Technologies, an Istanbul-area engineering house that supplies components into some of Türkiye's biggest...
A Bayraktar TB3 flew off the deck of TCG Anadolu on September 22 and dropped...
SAHA EXPO 2026, one of the major gatherings of the defence, aerospace and space industry,...
Almost every radar in Turkish service is designed and built by one company — a...
Turkish armoured vehicle manufacturer FNSS has reached a cooperation agreement with a European partner for...
Figures relating to Turkey have become clear in NATO's announced defence spending data for 2026....
Turkiye's defense and aerospace industry exported $511.4 million worth of goods and services in August...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev toured a joint Turkish-Azerbaijani naval drone production line in Baku on...
Turkey's navy closed out its largest fleet exercise of the year with two firsts: an...
Türkiye's aircraft engines are built almost entirely by one company: TEI, TUSAŞ Engine Industries, at...