ASELSAN Signs $442.5 Million Export Contract for Radar and Counter-UAS Systems
ASELSAN, Turkey’s largest defence electronics manufacturer, has signed a new export contract worth $442.5 million, the company disclosed in a filing to Turkey’s Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on 23 October 2026. The agreement covers the sale of radar systems, counter-unmanned aerial system (counter-UAS) equipment, and command-and-control systems.
The filing does not identify the buyer, referring only to an “international customer.” ASELSAN did not disclose a delivery timeline or specify which accounting period the revenue would be booked under. The company said it expects the deal to make a positive contribution to its annual turnover.
Turkey’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) confirmed the contract in its weekly industry roundup published on 26 October 2026, listing it among the sector’s key developments of the past week. The confirmation gives the disclosure an additional layer of official corroboration beyond the company’s own stock-exchange filing.
The new deal extends a export growth trend that has defined ASELSAN’s recent performance. The company reported $508 million in export revenue for 2024, and public reporting has placed the value of export contracts it signed during 2025 above $2 billion. Against that backdrop, a single $442.5 million agreement ranks among the larger individual deals the company has disclosed in recent years.
ASELSAN’s radar catalogue spans long-range early-warning systems to mobile fire-control radars, while its counter-UAS lineup combines detection, tracking and neutralisation layers aimed at the drone threats that have become a central concern for air-defence planners worldwide. Bundling these capabilities with command-and-control systems lets the company offer a more complete sensor-to-shooter package rather than a single piece of hardware.
Industry watchers note that contracts combining radar and command-control under one roof tend to simplify procurement for buyer nations, since sourcing an integrated system from a single supplier avoids the later cost of making separate vendors’ equipment interoperable. That packaging approach has become more common across ASELSAN’s recent export disclosures.
Turkey’s broader defence export drive, coordinated through SSB, has leaned on state-backed financing tools, offset arrangements and an expanding catalogue of domestically developed systems. Along with ROKETSAN, TUSAŞ and Baykar, ASELSAN accounts for a large share of the country’s total defence export value, and the new contract supports the company’s 2026 export growth targets. No further contract details, including the buyer’s identity or region, had been made public at the time of writing.
ASELSAN’s recent export pipeline has leaned heavily on demand from Europe, the Gulf and Southeast Asia, where buyers are modernising existing air-defence networks or standing up new ones in response to the proliferation of cheap attack drones. Company executives have previously said that demand for defence electronics and air-defence subsystems has been rising across these regions, and the new contract fits that pattern rather than representing an isolated transaction.
Sources
- ASELSAN, Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) material event notice, 23 October 2026 — used for the contract value, scope and date.
- Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB), “What Happened in Turkish Defence Industry This Week?”, ssb.gov.tr, 26 October 2026 — used for official confirmation of the contract.
