Aselsan Signs Fresh 780-Million-Euro Steel Dome Contract

Aselsan has announced a new contract worth 780 million euros (roughly 900 million dollars) with Turkey’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) for the continued development of Steel Dome, the country’s layered air defence architecture. According to a statement posted on the company’s official social media account on 21 June 2026, deliveries under the contract are expected to be completed between 2028 and 2032.

The deal is the latest link in a string of large-scale contracts awarded to the Steel Dome programme over the past eight months. Aselsan did not publish a detailed breakdown, but said the scope spans radars, electro-optical systems, communications modules, command-and-control stations and artificial intelligence capabilities. The company added that these components are being procured in a way that lets Steel Dome operate under a single architecture rather than as standalone systems.

What is Steel Dome?

Steel Dome is a layered “system of systems” run under SSB coordination, designed to tie together all of Turkey’s air defence assets across different ranges and altitudes within a common network. Its core logic is to fuse data from numerous radars and sensors into a shared air picture — a single screen showing every aircraft, missile and unmanned aerial vehicle in the sky — and to automatically select the most suitable interceptor against an incoming threat. The aim is for the individual systems to work as a coordinated whole rather than in isolation.

The architecture breaks down into roughly three layers. The short-range tier includes the KORKUT gun-based air defence system, the EJDERHA directed-energy (microwave) weapon and the GOKBERK laser system, positioned in particular against low-altitude threats and unmanned aircraft. The middle layer brings together the GURZ gun-missile hybrid and the HISAR missile families. At the long-range tier, SIPER takes on high-altitude and long-distance threats.

To manage these layers from a single point, Aselsan is developing a higher-level command-and-control solution called HAKIM. HAKIM is designed to act as the brain that keeps the systems within Steel Dome working in step with one another. The programme’s central claim is that these separately developed systems, talking to each other over one network, can deliver an integrated defence against threats at every altitude and range.

Contract at a glance

How it ties to earlier contracts

The new contract is seen as part of a wider investment programme run with the same customer. In September 2025, Aselsan signed a roughly 1.9-billion-dollar Steel Dome contract with SSB. On top of that, Turkey is pursuing a facility investment of around 1.5 billion dollars to strengthen the serial production base for its air defence systems; the plant is intended to become Europe’s largest air defence manufacturing centre.

Conceptually, Steel Dome sits in the same category as the United States’ Golden Dome initiative and Israel’s multi-layered systems, both of which lean toward layered air defence. For Turkey, the standout aspect of the project is that a significant share of the components is developed domestically and that systems of differing ranges are merged under a common command structure. The 2028-2032 delivery window attached to the new contract will be a critical span for getting all layers of the architecture into the field.

Open-source verification notes

• The contract value is reported as 780 million euros across multiple sources; the dollar equivalent is given in the region of 900-905 million dollars.
• International defence outlets confirmed that the announcement was made via Aselsan’s official X (Twitter) account.
• The delivery window (2028-2032) and the identity of the customer as SSB appear consistently across several independent sources.
• The HAKIM command-and-control system and the listed scope of components (radar, electro-optical, communications, AI) are reported on the basis of Aselsan’s statement.
• The roughly 1.9-billion-dollar contract of September 2025 and the production facility investment are verified as a separate deal.

Sources

• Aselsan official X (Twitter) announcement, 21 June 2026 – primary source
• Daily Sabah – contract value (905 million dollars), scope and HAKIM detail
• Breaking Defense – announcement platform, delivery schedule, system list and earlier contracts
• Militarnyi – announcement date and confirmation of the earlier 1.9-billion-dollar contract