IDEF 2019, held under the auspices of the Turkish Presidency, brings together over a thousand companies and high-level delegations from dozens of countries, strengthening global cooperation in the defense sector.

Baykar and Italy’s defense giant Leonardo officially exchanged documents for their strategic cooperation agreement during the Turkey–Italy Intergovernmental Summit in Rome. The partnership aims to establish a joint venture focused on the European UAV market and integrated defense technologies.

ASELSAN achieved a 9% year-on-year increase in revenue, reaching 22.8 billion TL in the first quarter of 2025. The company secured $1.5 billion in new contracts and $372 million in export deals, reinforcing its strong growth momentum.

Two years have passed since Turkey’s first indigenous jet trainer, HÜRJET, took to the skies. Developed by TUSAŞ, the aircraft has achieved major milestones in its testing and qualification phases. TUSAŞ CEO Mehmet Demiroğlu marked the anniversary by highlighting HÜRJET’s growing strategic importance for Turkish aviation.

Bayraktar TB3, the world’s first UAV capable of taking off and landing on a short-deck ship, successfully conducted four autonomous sorties on the Turkish flagship TCG Anadolu on April 22, 2025. The tests were completed without any landing assistance, using advanced AI algorithms developed by Baykar.

Turkey’s AKSUNGUR UAV, powered by the domestically developed TEI-PD170 engine, reached 40,000 feet—setting a new altitude record for the national powerplant. The flight also tested ASELSAN’s AF500 camera and ASPİLSAN’s heated national battery at high altitude.

TUSAŞ announced that Turkey’s indigenous jet trainer HÜRJET has reached 1.2 Mach speed, marking a major milestone in supersonic flight. SSB President Haluk Görgün described the achievement as a new milestone in Turkey’s independent aerospace vision.

Under a new agreement between TUSAŞ and Delta-V, Turkey will launch a domestically produced micro-satellite into orbit using a national launch system for the first time. This milestone positions Turkey among a select group of nations with independent launch capability and could significantly impact future military and missile technologies.