ASELSAN CEO Ahmet Akyol stated that the KORKUT 35 mm air defence system’s C-RAM variant successfully completed its firing tests in 2024 in his review.
KORKUT C-RAM was officially teased during IDEF’23 as part of the Steel Dome (Formerly Skydome) IADS. Compared to KORKUT SPAAG, KORKUT C-RAM is fixed and swaps out the KALKAN 200-G (MAR) searching radar for STR 400-G (SERHAT), oriented against rocket, artillery, and mortar threats. KALKAN 100-G fire control radar is kept for the engagement as expected.
KORKUT’s 35 mm ATOM airburst ammunition offers considerable potential in C-RAM missions thanks to the area effect of the tungsten pellets upon airburst. Hit chances against small-sized targets are among the critical performance parameters of a C-RAM system.
STR 400-G’s tracking capabilities against ballistic targets will play an essential role in utilising KORKUT for C-RAM as ATOM rounds’ airburst programming is performed with sensor data.
