Footage released from the test showed the Tolun munition striking the concrete shelter and destroying the helicopter, which previously served in the inventory of the Turkish Armed Forces. The firing marked another milestone for the Tolun munition family as ASELSAN continues to expand its range of precision-guided weapons.
Yeni geliştirdiğimiz milli sert hedef tapalı sığınak delici ASELSAN TOLUN💥🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/Yswe8b4WxS
— Ahmet Akyol (@AhmetAkyol) December 27, 2025
The latest trial followed earlier successful firings of the Fragmentation-Effect Tolun-F, with the bunker-buster variant using a Hard Target Fuze. During the campaign, the Akinci platform completed firing tests with both the proximity sensor fragmentation-effect Tolun-F and the ASAF-fused bunker-buster Tolun, validating different warhead and fuze configurations.
Turkish Defense Industry Agency President Haluk Gorgun said, “These successful firings once again demonstrated how compatible and effective ASELSAN’s developed munition technologies work with Baykar platforms.” He added, “We are advancing our air power step by step with national solutions,” and congratulated the ASELSAN and Baykar teams involved.
ASELSAN Chief Executive Officer Ahmet Akyol said, “Two national powers are on stage with new capabilities,” referring to the Akinci platform and the Tolun munition family. He added, “No point hiding or being hidden… Bayraktar Akinci and ASELSAN Tolun,” while highlighting the bunker-buster and fragmentation-effect variants as having “high impact on multiple targets and wide areas.”
Tolun, which continues to be delivered to the Turkish Armed Forces, has strategic importance due to its range exceeding 100 kilometres and its resistance to electronic warfare. The munition, weighing 250 pounds and guided by GNSS/INS, can penetrate up to one metre of reinforced concrete and is designed to strike high-value targets such as aircraft shelters with metre-level precision.
ASELSAN said Tolun is the baseline variant within its family of small-diameter bombs, which also includes Tolun-F, Tolun-IIR and surface-launched Tolun-S versions. Previous tests confirmed a range of more than 100 kilometres during a long-range firing from an F-16, which Akyol described as “very long range, absolute precision” achieved through end-to-end national engineering.
