Turkish Gendarmerie Chief Visits ASELSAN as KORAL-2 Appears on Site
Turkish Gendarmerie Commander General Ali Çardakcı and his deputies visited ASELSAN’s Technology Base in Gölbaşı, Ankara, on 11 November 2026. Photos released by the Gendarmerie General Command show the SİPER, HİSAR and KORKUT air defence systems on display, together with a vehicle assessed to be KORAL-2, ASELSAN’s next-generation land-based electronic warfare system.
According to the Gendarmerie’s official statement, Çardakcı reviewed ASELSAN’s work for the national defence industry and was briefed by company officials on its technology and production activities. The outdoor line-up drew most attention: in images taken near sunset, ASELSAN executives walk the delegation past air defence and electronic warfare vehicles.
What the Photos Show
The four images show a broad slice of ASELSAN’s air defence family: the vertical launcher of the long-range SİPER system next to a white-shelter electronic warfare vehicle with its masts raised, green-camouflaged HİSAR vehicles, the 35 mm KORKUT gun system and the large antenna face of an ALP radar.
The Gendarmerie post does not name the systems individually. KORAL-2’s presence is an assessment based on the vehicles’ appearance and the display layout. Neither ASELSAN nor the Defence Industry Agency (SSB) issued a separate statement on the visit.
What KORAL-2 Does
KORAL-2 is the new generation of the KORAL electronic warfare system that Türkiye has fielded since 2016. SSB lists it as the “Land-Based Standoff Electronic Support and Attack (ES/EA) Capability Serial Production Project”. In plain terms, the system listens for enemy radar signals, locates their source and can jam them.
According to SSB, KORAL-2 is designed to degrade the ability of adversary early warning and air defence radars to detect, identify and track targets. The gaps this opens in enemy command, control and air defence networks let friendly aircraft and units carry out attack, defence and support missions at reduced risk. SSB says the system builds on the original KORAL, with subsystems redesigned for new technologies and a wider range of threats.
Delivery Timeline
SSB President Prof. Haluk Görgün said at the start of the year that the advanced version of KORAL would enter the inventory in 2026, alongside completing deliveries of the second version of the İLGAR communications jamming system. Showing the system to a military delegation in the final quarter suggests that schedule is in its last stage, although no firm delivery date has been announced.
ASELSAN also completed the modernisation of the existing KORAL systems in September 2025, upgrading their critical infrastructure with new-generation subsystems. Adding KORAL-2 alongside the upgraded KORALs would give the Turkish Armed Forces a two-tier land-based electronic warfare fleet within the layered Steel Dome (ÇELİKKUBBE) air defence architecture.
