ASELSAN General Manager Ahmet Akyol specified by his feedback, “With SIPER, we will also have long-range high-altitude air defense in inventory. Under the leadership of our state, we will complete the end-to-end air defense layer in 2024.”
Speaking in Antalya for the “Global Strategies Conference in Defense and Aviation Industry,” Ahmet Akyol emphasised Türkiye’s important progress within the subject of air protection.
Akyol defined that air protection consists of layered buildings similar to low altitude, medium altitude, and excessive altitude, highlighting the significance of the particulate ammunition KORKUT system in close-range air protection.
Highlighting the numerous deliveries of this technique to the Turkish Armed Forces, Akyol talked about the curiosity from many nations in its export. He emphasised Türkiye’s functionality to provide, make the most of, and obtain optimistic leads to operations with its personal assets, together with sensible ammunition, by collaboration with ASELSAN‘s accomplice organizations.
Akyol expressed their dedication to attaining a totally impartial protection business, emphasizing their distinctive efficiency in important elements similar to radar.
He talked about the detection of ISS passing over Türkiye utilizing radars developed for air protection techniques.
Akyol introduced that SIPER will enter service this 12 months, persevering with, “With SIPER, we will also have long-range high-altitude air defense in inventory. Türkiye has reached this level with the contributions of ASELSAN, TUBITAK, ROKETSAN, and thousands of SMEs. Under the leadership of our state, we will complete the end-to-end air defense layer in 2024. There are SIPER Block-2 and SIPER Block-3. We also have our GURZ system, which we call hybrid air defense. We have made significant progress with it as well. It is a system that can engage in different scenarios simultaneously, such as launching particulate ammunition and intercepting short-range missiles from a single platform. With this understanding, I can say that it will be a year of significant developments in air defense.”
Akyol emphasised that HISAR-A and HISAR-A+ have entered service, including, “The upper layer, HISAR-O and HISAR-O+, have also entered service. We are working with our partner organization ROKETSAN to extend their range slightly with some improvements. Air defense is an area where we have localized from seeker heads to the materials used in their construction, starting from dust. Today, the unjust embargoes Turkey sometimes faces have led us to localize even to the level of dust metal. Air defense integrates all technologies from seeker heads to communication systems, from radars to electro-optical systems, from command and control to navigation, from friend-or-foe recognition systems to fire control algorithms into a single platform.”
Akyol talked about that ASELSAN launched almost 20 new merchandise in 2023.
He reminded that Türkiye’s first unmanned marine automobile, MARLIN, entered Türkiye’s stock final 12 months, stating their give attention to unmanned techniques not solely on land and sea but additionally underwater.
Akyol highlighted that DERINGOZ, an unmanned underwater automobile, is present process closing preparations to be used by a public establishment for underwater actions. He concluded, “We brought products like DERINGOZ underwater, MARLIN on the surface, TUNGA, and ERTUNGA on land to significant stages in 2023, and we even exported some of them. In 2024, we will focus on new unmanned products and new export efforts.”
Akyol emphasised ASELSAN‘s capability to combine quite a few features into unmanned techniques, from underwater sensors to radars, electro-optical techniques, communication techniques, and extra.
Akyol talked about their efforts to switch protection business applied sciences to civilian functions, noting the utilization of domestically developed signaling techniques in metro and TCDD Transportation.
He additionally talked about their work within the transportation sector, stating, “We have developed a high-speed weight measurement system that can weigh vehicles carrying loads up to 120 kilometers per hour without stopping, measure their dimensions, weight per axle, instantly recognize their license plates, and do all these without stopping traffic. We exported this system to a friendly country. I thank the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for supporting national technologies.”
SIPER General Features:
• LONG-RANGE AIR DEFENSE towards enemy assaults on strategic amenities
• Distributed Architecture
• Close and Distant Deployment Capabilities
• Multiple Engagement and Sequential Firing
• Ability to function in difficult climate circumstances
• Air protection planning and coordination
• Management and distribution of knowledge below command and management
• Integrated Air Picture Production
• Manual/Semi-Automatic/Automatic Engagement Capability
Source: www.anews.com.tr