ASELSAN's new compact AESA radar projects, CENK 100-N and AKREP 200-N, were revealed in the 120th issue of its monthly magazine.
As ASELSAN progresses in AESA radars, the company's portfolio is expanding in new directions. One of these directions is compact AESA radars for different purposes, with two products revealed in the latest issue of ASELSAN's monthly magazine.
The first, CENK 100-N fixed-face AESA radar, is being developed for short-range detection of UAV threats. The radar consists of multiple faces that can be distributed around the ship, continuously providing a 360-degree scan. CENK 100-N, also called BURAK, appears to be a spin-off of the AURA 200-G AESA radar being developed for use on the ground as a compact solution against various airborne threats (UAVs, munitions, and low-flying aircraft).
A similar development method can be observed in the KANGAL-D jammer for warships, derived from the baseline KANGAL for ground vehicles. Thanks to its lower power consumption compared to main search radars, the radar can work more regularly, including when at port, to scan for incoming UAVs and prevent sabotage attacks.
Despite having a similar configuration to CENK 100-N, AKREP 200-N will serve as the search/fire control radar of the upcoming GÖKSUR point defence missile system (PDMS). Thanks to its distributed configuration, the radar will detect and track incoming anti-ship missiles, UAVs, and low-flying aircraft in a hemisphere.
BOZDOĞAN-DH missiles of the GÖKSUR PDMS, recently tested at the wind tunnel, will receive mid-course updates from the AKREP 200-N radar to support the onboard IIR seeker.
In 2024, ASELSAN adopted a new naming system due to the growing number of its products for better organisation. CENK is used for naval search radars, while AKREP indicates use for fire control. A prefix at the end is added to the name to describe what platforms can use it (N for naval, G for ground, and A for aircraft).
