SSB President Haluk Görgün emphasized that Türkiye’s defense industry has achieved an 83% localization rate by transforming its strategy into technology and technology into products.

ASELSAN CEO Ahmet Akyol announced the start of a $1.5 billion investment at the new 6,500-acre Oğulbey campus, alongside 47 air-defense system deliveries and 14 new facility openings attended by President Erdoğan.

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani’s first-ever official visit to Türkiye at the ministerial level included stops at the Istanbul Shipyard, Baykar, and TUSAŞ—boosting defense cooperation and technology partnership prospects.

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and his delegation visited Baykar’s Özdemir Bayraktar National Technology Center, where Selçuk and Haluk Bayraktar briefed them on projects; SSB President Haluk Görgün also attended.

The HİSAR-D RF missile, launched from TCG İSTANBUL using ROKETSAN’s MİDLAS system, successfully hit its target off Sinop, demonstrating ASELSAN’s full system integration.

ASELSAN announced via the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) that it has signed a $54 million export contract with a customer in the Middle East and Africa for radar and command-control systems.

ASELSAN’s T-Link system will enable Turkey’s land, air, sea, space, and cyber forces to communicate securely and independently—without relying on NATO networks like Link-16.

Baykar announced that its first production base in Anatolia will be established in Samsun’s Tekkeköy district, creating a regional high-tech and defense industry hub.