ASELSAN has achieved a major strategic breakthrough by winning a USD 410 million electronic warfare export contract with Poland, one of NATO’s key members and home to one of the Alliance’s largest armed forces. Awarded through a highly competitive international tender, the contract marks a significant milestone for ASELSAN and Türkiye, confirming the company’s ability to deliver cutting-edge electronic warfare capabilities to top-tier NATO customers.
The contract, covering the direct sale of advanced electronic warfare systems, was signed in Poland on 19 December by ASELSAN President&CEO Ahmet Akyol. Poland’s decision to select ASELSAN for such a strategic capability reflects strong confidence in the company’s technological depth, system-level expertise, and operational maturity, while also strengthening cooperation with a key NATO ally.
As the operator of Europe’s largest electronic warfare facility, ASELSAN will now deliver high-technology EW systems to one of NATO’s leading armies. This agreement is expected to serve as a strong reference for ASELSAN’s positioning in other European and NATO markets, reinforcing its role as a trusted supplier of field-proven, internationally compliant electronic warfare solutions.
ASELSAN continues to strengthen its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region through two significant developments in Malaysia and Indonesia. A new teaming agreement in Malaysia and the successful integration and live-fire testing of advanced systems in Indonesia highlight ASELSAN’s growing role as a trusted defense technology partner, supporting regional maritime security and land force modernization.
In Malaysia, ASELSAN and Malaysian shipyard NAVAMAS signed a Teaming Agreement on 22 December to jointly develop a mission-ready Unmanned Surface Vessel tailored to the operational needs of Malaysian end users, including the Royal Malaysian Navy and the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. By combining ASELSAN’s advanced payloads and autonomous technologies with NAVAMAS’s local shipbuilding and integration capabilities, the partnership aims to enhance Malaysia’s maritime surveillance, security, and defense readiness, while also supporting local industry, technology transfer, and long-term national maritime security objectives.
In Indonesia, ASELSAN has successfully completed the integration and live-fire testing of the SARP 12.7 mm Remote Weapon Station and the SEDA Gunshot Detection System supplied to J-Forces. The systems were integrated on the platform and validated through performance firing tests at the KOPASSUS Bandung firing range, achieving all objectives. This milestone marks the entry of these systems into the inventory of the Indonesian Army Special Forces, demonstrates an effective cooperation model based on rapid delivery and validation, and reinforces future defense industrial collaboration between Türkiye and Indonesia, coordinated locally by ASELSAN Indonesia.
ASELSAN participated in EDEX 2025 in Cairo from December 1–4, showcasing its advanced defense technologies. The portfolio covered air, land, and naval systems, including communications, radar, electronic warfare, air defense, and platform modernization solutions. ASELSAN President & CEO Ahmet Akyol officially announced the opening of a new representative office, ASELSAN Egypt, and signed preliminary agreements with local partners for joint production.
The establishment of ASELSAN Egypt ensures direct engagement and service delivery to the Egyptian Armed Forces. By localizing production and support, ASELSAN aims to foster long-term collaborative projects that integrate its world-class electronics expertise with regional operational needs. These partnerships signal a deeper commitment to the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on sustainable growth through shared technology and industrial synergy. Highlighting this milestone, Akyol stated: “I can now declare that Türkiye’s largest defense industry company has an active, on-the-ground presence in Egypt.”
Beyond corporate expansion, the exhibition highlighted ASELSAN’s diverse portfolio, spanning naval solutions, electronic warfare, and armored vehicle modernization. The company’s presence at EDEX 2025 underscored its growing influence as a global defense leader delivering NATO-interoperable, field-proven systems, while also marking a new chapter in regional stability and long-term bilateral industrial cooperation.
ASELSAN’s TOLUN smart munition family has reached a new level of operational maturity through a series of successful live-fire tests conducted on both unmanned and manned platforms. The campaign validated multiple TOLUN variants, including fragmentation, concrete-penetrating, and imaging infrared guided configurations, confirming precision engagement against stationary and moving targets across diverse mission profiles.
On AKINCI platform, TOLUN-F featuring a fragmentation warhead completed its first live-fire test, while the TOLUN-P variant equipped with the fully indigenous ASAF fuze demonstrated concrete-penetrating performance against hardened targets. In the same test campaign, the TOLUN-IIR munition successfully engaged a moving target, further validating the family’s multi-mode guidance and operational flexibility on unmanned platforms.
In a separate test from an F-16 platform, TOLUN was released at 40,000 feet and 0.95 Mach using the SADAK-4T Smart Quad Rack, accurately striking a target beyond 100 kilometers. Together, these results underline the maturity of the TOLUN family and ASELSAN’s strength in system integration, delivering precision, range, and mission adaptability across next-generation air combat environments.
ASELSAN successfully completed the first live-fire test of its KGK 84 munition, marking an important milestone in the development of indigenous precision strike capabilities. The test demonstrated the system’s operational readiness and validated its performance under realistic mission conditions.
During the activity, KGK 84 was released from an F-16 Block 50 PO-III platform at an altitude of 37,000 feet and a speed of 0.87 Mach. The munition achieved a range exceeding 80 kilometers and accurately struck the designated coordinate target, meeting all defined performance criteria.
Designed as a game-changing capability for modern battlefields, KGK 84 once again proved the effectiveness of ASELSAN’s fully indigenous technologies. The successful test reinforced Türkiye’s growing competence in advanced guidance and strike solutions and underscored ASELSAN’s commitment to delivering high-impact, reliable systems for current and future operational needs.
The acceptance firing of HİSAR A air defense system, within Steel Dome layered air defense architecture, was successfully conducted in December using products rolling off the serial production line.
On 25 December 2025, engagement and launch were executed against a high-speed target detected and tracked by the Fire Control System (FCS). During the acceptance firing, conducted with a vertical launch via the Missile Launching System (MLS), HİSAR A missile equipped with an IIR seeker neutralized the target.
The FCS system currently in service with the Turkish Armed Forces can operate in configurations integrating up to three Modernized Towed Guns (MTG) and one HİSAR Missile Launching System (MLS) simultaneously. The new-generation configuration of the HİSAR MLS and the first serial production batch equipped with KİLİT32H IIR Seeker HİSAR-A missiles are now mission-ready.
ASELFLIR 600 completed a full-performance flight on AKINCI platform, marking an important milestone in its development and qualification process, while KARAT Infrared Search and Track System successfully performed its first flight on KIZILELMA. Together, these test activities highlighted the growing maturity of ASELSAN’s advanced electro-optical and infrared sensor technologies across next-generation unmanned air platforms.
During the AKINCI flight, ASELFLIR 600 operated with its SWIR and day camera channels fully integrated, delivering stable and uninterrupted performance throughout the mission profile. The system demonstrated color-rich, high-detail imaging under challenging environmental conditions, while its laser target designation function was successfully tested, providing full verification of its targeting capability. These results confirmed the system’s readiness for advanced ISR and precision engagement missions.
In parallel, KARAT, Türkiye’s first indigenous Infrared Search and Track system developed for air platforms, successfully completed its maiden flight on KIZILELMA. Designed to detect and track air threats without emitting electromagnetic signals, KARAT provides high situational awareness against low radar cross-section targets. Its low-observable geometry, passive detection capability and ability to generate precise three-dimensional target data reinforce the operational effectiveness of next-generation air combat platforms.
ASELSAN’s ALBATROS-S Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) successfully executed a simulated attack against a maritime target after being controlled via a BAYKAR TB3 UAV launched from TCG ANADOLU, marking a major milestone in joint unmanned maritime–air operations. The scenario demonstrated extended operational reach, with USV control range increased by over 70 km, and validated real-time coordination between unmanned platforms.
The operation began with ALBATROS-S autonomously departing from port, followed by the transfer of its control to the TB3 UAV airborne from TCG ANADOLU. One of the swarm-capable ALBATROS-S USVs, operated through the TB3, then carried out a simulated strike on a sea target. The successful execution highlighted the effectiveness of UAV-controlled USV operations and the ability to conduct complex missions through networked unmanned systems.
This latest achievement builds on the ASELSAN–BAYKAR collaboration, following a previous demonstration in 2023 where an ALBATROS-S Kamikaze USV, controlled by a TB2 UAV, successfully struck and sank a real target vessel. Together, these milestones underline the growing maturity of joint unmanned maritime and aerial concepts, enabling longer reach, higher flexibility, and more effective naval operations.
ASELSAN has successfully launched LUNA-1, the first satellite of its space-based IoT solution family, aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket under the Transporter-15 mission from California. After separating from the launch vehicle, LUNA-1 was deployed into a 510 km sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit, and its first telemetry signals were received and decoded by ASELSAN’s ground station in Ankara, confirming that the satellite is operating nominally.
Designed, developed, manufactured, integrated, and tested entirely by ASELSAN engineers, LUNA-1 marks a critical milestone in the company’s ambition to become a key actor in the New Space era. The mission demonstrates ASELSAN’s end-to-end satellite engineering capabilities, covering mission payloads, flight computer, and ground control software, while laying the foundation for a global satellite-based IoT communication infrastructure.
LUNA-1 enables low-latency data transmission and wide-area sensor communication, providing low-power, long-lifetime IoT connectivity even in remote regions where terrestrial infrastructure is unavailable, from rural areas to open seas. By supporting continuous, cost-effective data collection and large-scale environmental monitoring, the satellite ensures reliable IoT access wherever sensors need to remain connected.
ASELSAN climbed from 53rd to 47th place on the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI) Top 100 Arms-Producing and Military Services Companies list compared to the previous year, signaling a meaningful shift in the global defense industrial landscape.
Compiled annually, SIPRI’s ranking is regarded as the most authoritative independent benchmark of defense industrial performance, based on defense-related revenues, and entry into the list reflects sustained technological and industrial capacity rather than short-term program success. For ASELSAN, the listing reflects a development path anchored in defense electronics and systems integration rather than platform manufacturing as the company’s core competencies spanning radar, electro-optics, communications, electronic warfare, and command-and-control systems, correspond closely with the technological priorities of modern armed forces.
From a broader perspective, ASELSAN’s presence in the SIPRI Top 100 highlights the diversification of the global defense industrial base. It illustrates how emerging defense exporters can achieve international relevance through specialization and systems engineering rather than reliance on legacy platforms.