Air Defense

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MİĞFER: ASELSAN’s Vehicle-Mounted Anti-Drone Shotgun System — Specs, Status and Exports Explained

MİĞFER: ASELSAN’s Vehicle-Mounted Anti-Drone Shotgun System — Specs, Status and Exports Explained

MİĞFER ("helmet" in Turkish) is ASELSAN's vehicle-mounted self-protection system against small drones. Unveiled at SAHA 2026 in Istanbul in May 2026 on a 4x4 armored...

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KORKUT: ASELSAN’s 35 mm Self-Propelled Air Defense Gun — Specs, Turkish Service and Exports Explained

KORKUT: ASELSAN’s 35 mm Self-Propelled Air Defense Gun — Specs, Turkish Service and Exports Explained

KORKUT, ASELSAN's twin 35 mm self-propelled air defense gun, has evolved from a Turkish Army modernization program into a family of tracked and wheeled systems...

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SİPER: Türkiye’s Long-Range Air and Missile Defense System — Specs, Turkish Service and Exports Explained

SİPER: Türkiye’s Long-Range Air and Missile Defense System — Specs, Turkish Service and Exports Explained

SİPER, Türkiye's first indigenous long-range area air and missile defense system, has moved from development into series production and operational service. Developed by ASELSAN, ROKETSAN...

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What Is Banshee Jet 40+? The Single-Engine NATO MANPADS Training Target

What Is Banshee Jet 40+? The Single-Engine NATO MANPADS Training Target

What Is Banshee Jet 40+? The Single-Engine NATO MANPADS Training Target Meta: The Banshee Jet 40+ is QinetiQ's single-engine subsonic aerial target, the NATO standard...

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World’s Largest Air Defense Manufacturers: Layers, Orders and Operators Compared (2026)

World’s Largest Air Defense Manufacturers: Layers, Orders and Operators Compared (2026)

As drones and ballistic missiles keep driving down the price of attack, the price — and value — of defense keeps climbing: air defense is...

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Patriot Deliveries & Inventory: Which Countries Operate It, Why Didn’t Türkiye Buy It? (2026)

Patriot Deliveries & Inventory: Which Countries Operate It, Why Didn’t Türkiye Buy It? (2026)

MIM-104 Patriot air defense system launcher. Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain).MIM-104 Patriot is the world's most widely used long-range air and missile defense system, built...

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The Seams, Not the Systems: Air-Defence C2 Integration in the Gulf

The Seams, Not the Systems: Air-Defence C2 Integration in the Gulf

Executive Summary The hardest problem in Gulf air defence is not acquiring interceptors; it is integrating them. Gulf states have assembled layered inventories — Patriot...

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What Is Banshee Jet 80+? NATO’s Standard Air Defence Training Target

What Is Banshee Jet 80+? NATO’s Standard Air Defence Training Target

What Is Banshee Jet 80+? NATO's Standard Air Defence Training Target Meta: QinetiQ's twin-engine Banshee Jet 80+ reaches 720 km/h and has been used by...