Pakistan Navy counts down to launch Babur
Pakistan Navy and Defence Ministry corporation Asfat plans to launch the first PN Milgem Babur on August 15, in Istanbul.
Turkiye News
Navy / Maritime
Bilateral Relations
Unmanned Systems
Aksungur Flies for 1000 hours
TUSAŞ's twin-engine UAV Aksungur has surpassed 1000 flight hours. The UAV is based on single-engine ANKA UAV, and it is developed in 18 months.
Country
Defence and Aerospace Industry Exports increase in July 2021
Turkish Defence and Aerospace Industry exports in July 2021 amounted to 231 million 166 thousand USD.
Navy / Maritime
Modernisation
Sensors
Turkish Straits to be controlled with HAVELSAN’s System
The Turkish Straits will be managed via HAVELSAN’s new system developed with national resources.
Navy / Maritime
Unmanned Systems
Sensors
SSB to Supply Unmanned Surface Vehicle
Presidency of Defence Industry Presidency has published a request for proposal (TÇD) to supply two different types of unmanned surface vehicles.
Land
MKE Visits IDEF with Yavuz
Mechanical and Chemical Industry Incorporated Company (MKE A.Ş.) will present Yavuz Howitzer at IDEF.
Air
Investment
General Directorate of Forestry to Procure New Helicopters
The General Directorate of Forestry, which has partially exited Turkey’s T70 Utility Helicopter Program will supply brand new helicopters.
Navy / Maritime
Air
Unmanned Systems
First Technical Details of MIUS And TB3 are Disclosed
Baykar Technical Manager (CTO) Selçuk Bayraktar gave information about Baykar's UAV projects at the "Aviation and Space Summit 2" online event.
Weapon / Missile
Investment
Electromagnetic Rail Gun: the U.S. Gives Up, Turkey Hopes
U.S. Navy preferred the budget cut on the Electromagnetic Rail Gun project even though the system sent projectiles at supersonic speed. Turkiye continues.
Air
KHK’s Canadair Fleet: Ageing between 32 to 51
Turkish Aviation Institute has nine Canadair CL-215 (Scooper) firefighter aircraft in the inventory.
Air
Unmanned Systems
Sensors
TUSAŞ Delivers Anka with ASELSAN’s CATS Payload
Turkish Aerospace (TUSAŞ) has delivered two new ANKA UAV to the Turkish Air Force.
Unmanned Systems
Sensors
Aksungur Saved Lives
President of Defence Industries Professor Ismail Demir stated that Aksungur UAV had saved lives.
Investment
Engine and Transmission
İşbir Elektrik Prepares for New Facility
İşbir Elektrik will move to its new facility. The facility was established in 1978 as the Power Generation Machinery Factory.
Land
Otokar Achieves a Turnover of 1.9 billion TL in Six Months
Otokar announced the financial results for the first six months of 2021. Otokar’s exports increased its turnover by 64 per cent despite the Pandemic.
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 US Air Force expands Collaborative Combat Aircraft testing - The US Air Force is increasing flight testing and integration work for Collaborative Combat Aircraft...
- 09:00 European defence spending increasingly targets ammunition resilience - European governments are directing additional defence funding toward ammunition production, stockpil...
- 09:00 China advances military satellite constellation deployment - China continues expanding military satellite constellations designed to enhance communications, navi...
- 09:00 Japan strengthens distributed missile force posture - Japan is expanding deployment of mobile missile units and support infrastructure across remote islan...
- 09:00 Autonomous surface vessels gain importance in fleet operations - Navies are integrating autonomous surface vessels into surveillance, reconnaissance and maritime sec...
- 09:00 Counter-drone procurement shifts toward scalable architectures - Military organisations are increasingly procuring counter-drone systems built around open architectu...
- 09:00 Hypersonic defence programmes focus on persistent target custody - Defence agencies are prioritising sensor networks capable of maintaining continuous tracking of mano...
- 09:00 AI-assisted command systems gain momentum in military planning - Armed forces are accelerating adoption of AI-assisted command-and-control systems designed to improv...
- 09:00 Collaborative autonomy emerges as key defence technology trend - Military planners increasingly view teams of autonomous systems operating cooperatively as a major f...
- 09:00 Production capacity increasingly shapes defence export competitiveness - Countries evaluating defence acquisitions are placing greater weight on supplier production capacity...
