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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...
Foreign ministers, defence ministers and armed forces chiefs from Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan met...
Turkish Air Force pilots move into live flight training on the Eurofighter Typhoon in the...
HAVELSAN's order book for Airbus A320-family full-flight simulators has grown to six additional units, the...
Roketsan has fired its Çakır cruise missile from a mobile ground launcher for the first...
ASELSAN is Türkiye's largest defence company and its national defence-electronics house. It is majority-owned by...
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...
Türkiye's Naval Forces Command launched Denizkurdu-I/2026 on September 20, the first of its two major...
ASELSAN put four of its precision-guided munitions through a live-fire gauntlet at the Konya Karapınar...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev toured a joint Turkish-Azerbaijani naval drone production line in Baku on...
KORAL II is the designation under which ASELSAN first documented its next-generation land-based radar electronic...
CLARIFICATION, 14 September 2026The US$11.2 billion figure is a rolling 12-month total, not a calendar-year...
Roketsan has brought a wide slice of its guided-weapons catalogue to MSPO 2026, the International...
A foreign government buying Turkish defence equipment has three routes. It can sign directly with...
The SUNGUR air defence missile system is ROKETSAN's answer to the lowest and most crowded...
FNSS has built an unmanned version of the vehicle it hopes will one day lead...
Türkiye's Land Forces Command has taken delivery of another batch of TAYFUN Blok-2 ballistic missiles,...
ASELSAN signed a new contract with Polish vehicle manufacturer AMZ Kutno on September 8 to...
KARA ATMACA is ROKETSAN's land-attack cruise missile, a road-mobile derivative of the ATMACA anti-ship missile...