At HASAT 2025, leading figures of the defense industry discussed how technology entrepreneurship strengthens the defense ecosystem through innovation, artificial intelligence, and domestic production initiatives.

Autonomous defense systems are rapidly advancing, and Türkiye is emerging as a global contender with its land, air, and naval platforms featuring AI-driven autonomous technologies.

Introduced within NATO’s Innovation Continuity Initiative, Türkiye’s autonomous four-legged robot PROTEO is now ready for surveillance, logistics support, and explosive ordnance disposal missions.

At NATO’s Innovation Continuity Initiative final phase in Istanbul, Turkish companies including ASELSAN, HAVELSAN, TÜBİTAK SAGE and DASAL successfully showcased unmanned systems, AI-based solutions and advanced naval technologies.

Türkiye’s first unmanned fighter aircraft, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, has successfully completed its Mid-Altitude System Identification and Performance Test, marking another major milestone in its development.

HAVELSAN and Gazi University Hospital signed a strategic partnership to develop an AI-based pathology project aimed at speeding up cancer detection and improving diagnostic efficiency and patient safety.

HAVELSAN is integrating its MAIN Artificial Intelligence Platform into the ADVENT combat management system to enhance decision support, maintenance, and operational processes in naval missions.

At IDEF 2025, HAVELSAN showcases multi-domain command-control architectures, AI-based decision support, and its new maritime navigation system “Bluevision,” alongside advanced simulators and unmanned teaming technologies.