Turkish Air-To-Air Missiles at Their Final Stages
Bozdoğan and Gökdoğan air-to-air missiles produced for the Turkish Air Force are ready for acceptance tests.
Bozdoğan and Gökdoğan air-to-air missiles produced for the Turkish Air Force are ready for acceptance tests.
The first low-scale production of the Göktuğ missile family is secured at IDEF. Gökdoğan and Bozdoğan missiles to be delivered by 2025.
President of the Defence Industry Agency (DIA), Professor İsmail Demir, announced from his social media accounts that Tubitak SAGE’s (Defence Industry Research and Development Institute) Gökdoğan Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile BVR/Peregrine) was fired with radar seeker. Demir stated that BVR Peregrine and Bozdoğan Within Visual Range (WVR/Merlin) would be delivered to the Turkish Armed Forces.
TUBİTAK SAGE’s director Gökhan Okumuş stated that Gökhan air to air missile with Ramjet engine would be used first at F-16 aircraft, and later they will be implemented to Turkish fighter aircraft TF-X. Okumuş indicated that the Gökhan Ramjet missile would be carried at the internal bay of TF-X aircraft.
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar announced TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) SAGE’s (Defence Industries Research and Development Institute) new project; air to air missile with ramjet engine Gökhan.
Turkey’s air-to-air missile Bozdoğan successfully hit the target.