Görgün: Steel Dome Deliveries Continue, New Contract Signed for Hisar Batteries

Haluk Görgün, head of Turkey’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB), gave broadcaster A Haber an update on the rollout of Çelik Kubbe — Turkey’s layered “Steel Dome” air defense shield — ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.

Deliveries and integration under way

Görgün recalled that elements of Steel Dome began being handed over to the armed forces last year in a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Their integration has begun at the locations our security forces need and have identified,” he said. According to Görgün, the system was designed as a holistic structure capable of protecting the country’s entire border, and serial production is now under way.

‘Not a concept that is ever finished’

Görgün stressed that Steel Dome is not a static program: “This is never a concept where you can say it’s done — it requires constant threat analysis and the constant development of new countermeasures against those threats.” He said field experience and requirements are quickly relayed to manufacturers, who then deliver updated versions back to the field.

New contract for Hisar A/O

In a disclosure he said he was sharing publicly for the first time, Görgün said a new contract had been signed with ASELSAN and Roketsan to supply batteries and a large number of missiles for the Hisar A and Hisar O systems, both key components of Steel Dome.

Context

Steel Dome is described as a layered air defense concept that brings domestically developed systems — including SİPER and the Hisar A/A+ and O/O+ families — under a single command-and-control architecture to counter low, medium and high-altitude threats. Deliveries of the system’s components began in 2025.

Watch Görgün’s full interview with A Haber here.

Source: A Haber