ASELSAN Presents Eight Electronic Warfare and Counter-Drone Systems to Chile’s Army

Turkish defense contractor ASELSAN briefed the Chilean Army’s Intelligence Brigade (Binte) on its ground-based electronic warfare and counter-drone portfolio. Spanish defense outlet Infodefensa reported the meeting on November 6, 2026, citing records published on Chile’s lobbying-transparency portal, the “Ley del Lobby”.

Eight Systems on the Table

According to Infodefensa, ASELSAN’s pitch centered on eight products. Koral AD, a new mobile platform that combines electronic support and electronic attack, leads the list: it is built to detect, classify and neutralize long-range hostile radars. Ilgar, a mobile electronic-attack system, jams V/UHF and part of the SHF band, including frequency-hopping networks.

The Ares family covers ground-based radar-emission detection and analysis, while Ehkom 100 is the command-and-control layer that coordinates EW assets from a single point. On the counter-drone side, four systems stood out: Gökalp, an AI-assisted autonomous interceptor that destroys targets through direct kinetic impact; Miğfer, a hard-kill system mounted on 4×4 armored vehicles that uses twin smoothbore shotguns and specialized ammunition against micro-drones out to roughly 150 meters; Gökberk, a 10 kW laser weapon built to protect critical infrastructure and bases from short-range aerial threats; and Ejderha, a high-power microwave system against drone swarms, whose latest version adds radar, improved electro-optical sensors and greater autonomy.

Context: ASELSAN’s Latin American Push

The briefing is one link in a longer chain. ASELSAN opened a Santiago office under the “ASELSAN Latin America” banner in April 2024 to formalize its regional presence. Its most concrete Chilean program so far is the July 2023 agreement with FAMAE (Fábricas y Maestranzas del Ejército), the Chilean Army’s state-owned manufacturer, to modernize Leopard 2A4CHL tanks, including integration of ASELSAN’s AKKOR active protection system.

The company also exhibited at FIDAE 2026 in Santiago this past April, where it showcased the Steel Dome layered air-defense architecture alongside EW solutions built for spectrum monitoring and threat detection. The Binte briefing suggests that contact has now moved from a trade-show stand to a specific, user-level product discussion.

What Remains Unclear

Infodefensa describes the purpose of the meeting as exploring “possible areas of cooperation” — language that falls well short of a contract, a tender or even a confirmed requirement. The report does not give an exact meeting date, specify whether Chile has a defined requirement, or outline a next step. Lobbying-transparency filings confirm that a meeting with public officials took place and its general subject, but they do not disclose technical details or a timeline. This is a contact story, not a sales story.

Why It Matters

Chile’s defense market, particularly in ground EW and counter-drone systems, is seeing active competition. In the same window, Spain’s ITP offered the Chilean Army CT-7 engine maintenance support for its CN-235 fleet, while Israeli and European vendors have pushed comparable portfolios at regional trade shows. ASELSAN’s approach to Binte reads as one concrete data point in Türkiye’s broader strategy of extending its defense export base beyond Europe and the Gulf into Latin America.

That several of the offered systems — Miğfer and Gökberk among them — have already appeared at European (Eurosatory 2026) and Middle Eastern (Expodefensa 2025) exhibitions suggests the portfolio is field-tested rather than conceptual. Whether that translates into a Chilean order will depend on budget cycles and procurement timing that remain outside this report’s scope.

A Crowded Field of Suppliers

ASELSAN’s outreach sits alongside a broader wave of supplier activity in Chile. Australia’s Austal has pitched its Patrol 40 vessel to the Chilean Navy, floating potential co-production with local shipyard Asmar. Spain’s NVLS presented night-vision and electro-optical systems to both the Army and Navy, and US-based FDI is exploring an M113 armored-vehicle modernization program with FAMAE. The cluster of approaches points to an accelerated evaluation calendar following FIDAE 2026, with Chile’s Exponaval show adding further scrutiny of the national industry’s direction.

What sets ASELSAN’s offer apart is its layered structure — detection (Ares), engagement (Koral AD, Ilgar) and counter-drone response (Gökalp, Miğfer, Gökberk, Ejderha) — rather than a single standalone product. Whether that integrated pitch outweighs single-system competitors is a question only the next stage of talks can answer.

Sources

• Infodefensa, “Aselsan presenta al Ejército de Chile sus sistemas tácticos terrestres de guerra electrónica y antidrón,” November 6, 2026 — used for the meeting, the list of systems presented, and Infodefensa’s reference to Chile’s lobbying registry: https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/6078746/aselsan-presenta-ejercito-chile-sistemas-tacticos-terrestres-guerra-electronica-antidron
• Infodefensa, “España ITP presenta a Ejército de Chile capacidad de mantenimiento de motores CT-7 para el CN-235,” November 6, 2026 — used for context on parallel supplier contacts with the Chilean Army: https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/6078774/espanola-itp-presenta-ejercito-chile-capacidad-mantenimiento-motores-ct-7-cn-235
• Infodefensa, coverage of Austal’s Patrol 40 offer, NVLS night-vision systems and FDI’s M113 modernization talks with Chile, November 5-6, 2026 — used for the broader supplier-activity context: https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/6078269/austal-posiciona-patrullero-patrol-40-armada-chile-posible-construccion-junto-asmar
• ASELSAN corporate announcements and press materials — used for background on the Santiago office opening (April 2024), the FAMAE Leopard 2A4CHL modernization agreement (July 2023) and participation in FIDAE 2026.