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.

Baykar’s AI-enabled KEMANKEŞ 1 mini cruise missile, fired from Bayraktar AKINCI, scored direct hits on ground targets after last week’s successful air-target kill.

According to SETA researcher and Azerbaijan Khazar University lecturer Gloria Shkurti, the Turkish public has not only adopted defense industry technologies but also experienced a psychological transformation. She emphasized that the National Technology Initiative, coupled with major projects and government incentives, has created an optimistic and confident technological outlook in Turkey.

ASELSAN General Manager Ahmet Akyol announced that AI systems introduced under the ASELSAN Next program have saved 650,000 labor hours and increased efficiency by approximately $35 million within just one year.