ASELSAN introduced its domestically developed ASELFLIR 600 Electro-Optical Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Targeting System and the national T-Link tactical communications family at IDEF 2025, in a launch ceremony attended by Savunma Sanayii President Haluk Görgün. Designed after export and technology restrictions, ASELFLIR 600 is presented as a leap in airborne optical capability — offering markedly longer detection and laser-designation ranges compared to previous systems and enabling indigenous platforms to perform long-range ISR and precision targeting missions more effectively.

According to ASELSAN leadership, ASELFLIR 600 completed recent flight tests on the Akinci platform and is cleared for serial production for the Air Force. The system integrates AI-assisted automatic target detection and classification routines, allowing operators to receive near-instant identification cues and prioritize engagements. ASELSAN underlined that ASELFLIR 600 was engineered to operate seamlessly inside integrated air-defense architectures — as a key sensor in the “Çelik Kubbe” concept — while being resistant to misuse through built-in safeguards and interoperability controls.

Alongside the sensor, ASELSAN unveiled the T-Link family (T-Link A, C and M/G) as a national solution for secure, low-latency tactical data transfer. T-Link A is intended for air elements within the broader T-Link Terminal Network; T-Link C is optimized for size, weight and power-constrained platforms such as UAVs and helicopters; and T-Link M/G addresses ground, naval and command-and-control nodes. ASELSAN and SSB signed the Phase-2 serial production and rollout contract for T-Link, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign tactical datalink solutions and enable concepts such as multi-platform sensor-to-shooter chains — for example, using one aircraft’s radar to cue another platform’s weapon.

Technically, ASELFLIR 600’s improvements are claimed as roughly a 30% increase in detection and laser-marking range versus predecessor systems, and its AI/automation features shorten engagement decision cycles. Paired with T-Link’s real-time data transfer, Turkish airborne systems gain enhanced cooperative engagement capacity, better target hand-off, and secure situational awareness. ASELSAN executives stressed that these products are part of a continuing roadmap: ASELFLIR 600 is not the endpoint but a platform on which further capability increments will be added, while T-Link rollout aims to proliferate secure tactical networking across the Turkish Armed Forces, strengthening national sovereignty in both sensing and tactical communications.