ASELSAN announced €2.46 billion in Turkish air defence contracts, alongside radar and export agreements and fresh military delivery reporting.
Türkiye’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) and ASELSAN signed hybrid air defence contracts worth €2.46 billion, the company announced on 5 October 2026. Further domestic procurement and export announcements followed over the next three days, covering radar systems and a range of electronics and weapons.
The published air defence contract details gave the procurement category and total value of the package. ASELSAN did not disclose which systems would be supplied, their quantities, delivery timing or how the funding would be divided among the individual agreements.
A separate SSB order disclosed on 7 October covered radar systems procurement worth US$195 million. ASELSAN identified the customer and contract value but left the radar models unspecified in its announcement.
For overseas customers, ASELSAN disclosed export contracts worth US$157.9 million on 6 October. The agreements encompassed electronic warfare, electro-optics, seeker heads, reconnaissance and surveillance equipment, communications and weapon systems, according to the company’s description of the equipment ordered by foreign end users.
Another weapons and electronic warfare agreement, valued at US$125 million, was announced on 8 October. ASELSAN described a sale to an overseas end user, without releasing the destination, a breakdown of the equipment or delivery dates.
Separately, military equipment deliveries to all three Turkish armed services featured in the Ministry of National Defence’s 8 October briefing. Speaking at Gölcük Naval Shipyard, Rear Admiral Zeki Aktürk outlined additions to the inventory during the preceding week.
The reported Land Forces deliveries comprised fire-control equipment and modernized towed guns from the 35 mm Air Defence System Modernization program, plus MİLKAR-3A4 portable electronic-attack systems. Quantities and individual acceptance dates were absent from the briefing.
For the Navy, the delivered ASTELA radio sets included fixed-station 4931 and handheld 3711 units, while the Air Force received LGK-84 laser-guidance and HGK-84 precision-guidance kits. The ministry did not associate these consignments with that week’s newly announced contracts.
An earlier air defence production agreement, worth approximately €1.47 billion and disclosed in July, expanded ongoing serial-production projects. These programs form part of Türkiye’s Steel Dome architecture, connecting radars, electro-optical sensors, weapons, communications equipment and command-and-control stations within a shared air defence system.
ASELSAN’s first-half financial results put its order backlog at US$23.2 billion after US$4.9 billion in new contracts. Revenue for the first six months of 2026 totalled 88.5 billion Turkish lira, up 25% in real terms, while capacity and scale investments reached US$323 million.
The same reporting period included new production and test centres for smart munitions, air defence and underwater systems, which ASELSAN said it had commissioned for US$40 million. Those facilities provided a further 17,360 square metres of indoor space.
ASELSAN also reported 19 new robotic automation lines in the first six months of 2026. Its research and development expenditure over that period rose to US$804 million, an increase of 41% compared with the corresponding period a year earlier.
A subsequent announcement on 18 September detailed the commissioning of a Guidance Systems Production Centre costing US$56 million and containing 17,865 square metres of indoor space. ASELSAN linked the investment to its continuing expansion of manufacturing capacity across its technology portfolio.
