The contract is valued at exactly €1,470,500,012.38, according to ASELSAN’s statement on Türkiye’s Public Disclosure Platform, KAP. The company said the agreement will support production linked to Türkiye’s multi-layered Steel Dome air defence architecture.
ASELSAN CEO Ahmet Akyol said on Friday that the deal would further strengthen Türkiye’s air defence serial production capacity. He said it would also contribute to the country’s Steel Dome architecture.
“We continue to strengthen the Steel Dome,” Akyol said. “With the support of our state, we will continue producing in high volumes and working resolutely for the security of our country,” he added.
Steel Dome is designed as a system of systems able to detect, assess and intercept aerial threats across different altitudes and ranges. Its layered architecture includes systems intended to counter low-altitude threats such as drone swarms and loitering munitions, Hisar systems in the medium layer, and the Siper system in the upper layer.
All layers of the architecture were completed after the long-range Siper air defence system entered the Turkish Armed Forces’ inventory. Steel Dome integrates air defence weapons, radars, electro-optical sensors, communications modules and command-and-control centres into a single network.
The architecture creates a common air picture that is transmitted to operations centres in real time. The information is then processed through artificial intelligence-supported systems to assist decision-makers.
Systems including Korkut, Hisar-A, Goker, Gokberk, Hisar-O and Siper can operate within Steel Dome’s integrated structure. The architecture also includes sensors capable of tracking, identifying and classifying targets.
ASELSAN also supplies Hakim, the upper-level command-and-control system responsible for coordinating the architecture’s components. Hakim is Türkiye’s first domestically developed air command-and-control system and is intended to ensure that sensors, weapons and future air defence platforms operate in a coordinated and fully integrated way.
