ASELSAN’s various air defence products have participated in NATO’s Ramstein Legacy 2024 Integrated Air Defence exercise conducted in Romania. The HAKİM-ADOC/T mobile air defence command-control center, KORKUT-130/35 fire control vehicle, and ZIPKIN self-propelled Stinger MANPADS launcher are among the used systems. HAKİM-ADOC/T worked with the NATO-standard systems used by Germany, Hungary, and Portugal. The command-control system successfully performed tasks like sharing the airspace picture with allied units, engagement control, and data-link relays.
HAKİM-ADOC/T additionally shared feed from KORKUT-130/35 fire control vehicle’s sensors, KALKAN-200G searching radar (Formerly MAR) and a fire control radar.
ZIPKIN also fired its FIM-92 Stinger missiles during the exercise. ASELSAN’s ZIPKIN was manufactured in two versions in the 1990s: M113 AFV (eight missiles) and pickup-based (four missiles). In addition to Stinger missiles, the system incorporates a 12.7 mm machine gun, much like its U.S.-made counterpart, Avenger.
The performance of ASELSAN’s systems in the Ramstein Legacy 2024 made them the first Turkish low-altitude air defence systems to work with NATO systems in an integrated manner.
