TR Missile & Smart Munition Programs

“HERE ARE THE FEATURES OF SİPER-A (Anti-Ballistic) AND SİPER BLOCK 4, TITLED “AESA RADAR SEEKER HEAD”!

— Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün:

“We aim for the SİPER-1 systems to introduce new capabilities to the inventory of our Turkish Armed Forces between 2026-2031.

In SİPER-2, we are advancing the activities we are conducting under the serial production contract signed on October 29, 2025, to a new phase.

Through the contract amendment we signed, we aim to meet the additional fleet, battery, and missile needs of our Air Force Command.

We will integrate our SİPER-2 systems into the inventory of our Air Force between 2027-2032, providing effective defense capabilities against air-breathing targets, cruise missiles, and air-to-ground munitions.

Our SİPER-A Project, which we are developing in the field of lower-tier ballistic missile defense, also constitutes a strategic threshold in terms of our air and missile defense architecture.

This system will be one of the critical elements of our Steel Dome vision in ballistic missile defense, thanks to its AESA-based RF seeker head, precise target detection and tracking capability, and rapid reaction capability.

Our SİPER-4 Project, on the other hand, represents the upper-tier capability of this vision.

SİPER-4 will meet the upper-tier anti-ballistic missile interception needs of our Air Force Command, further advancing our national competence in radar, guidance, command and control, missile technologies, and system integration.”

Low tier vs High tier (Alt katman vs Üst katman)
I find both Turkish and English classifications confusing honestly.
Low and high meaning low and high altitudes like lower altitude air breathing targets or just low threat and high threat priority (evasion assessment)

1. Siper 1 100km/20km Against air breathing targets and possibly long range artillery rockets
2. Siper 2 150km/30km Same target set to Siper 1 but possibly better performance against TBM
3. Siper A Against SRBM/(MRBM) in the atmosphere similar to pac 3 mse but maybe with a better range
4. Siper 3 Most likely very long range interceptor similar to SM6 200km+
5. Siper 4 Exoatmospheric interceptor against MRBM/IRBM/SRBM and hypersonic weapons similar to SM3/thaad/(Arrow3)

And there is a chance that hisar will receive an upgraded missile 60km+ with a new radar.(hisar U)

This maybe will give us some idea for when?
(Its from 2023 so take it at will

Pokemonte13 said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1638447717796937728

This maybe will give us some idea for when?
(Its from 2023 so take it at will

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Is there a clearer version of the 3rd pic?

I could go with AI-upscaling but that tends to mess up a lot of the text & details.

Gessler said:

Is there a clearer version of the 3rd pic?

I could go with AI-upscaling but that tends to mess up a lot of the text & details.

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Unfortunately the text is not legible. Enhanced by DefenceHub

Gessler said:

Is there a clearer version of the 3rd pic?

I could go with AI-upscaling but that tends to mess up a lot of the text & d

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This may help

Gessler said:

Is there a clearer version of the 3rd pic?

I could go with AI-upscaling but that tends to mess up a lot of the text & details.

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I think we identified most of those systems present in the image / roadmap, somewhere in the forum, should be within sensors thread. Although, i should also inform that some systems has been evolved, merged with another, updated or changed designation.

Fuzuli NL said:

Unfortunately the text is not legible.

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Yeah that's what I was afraid of.

Fuzuli NL said:

This may help

https://www.aselsan.com/en/media

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I found the press release section for IDEF 2023 but it seems these charts aren't available there. Just pics of some individual systems.

What is Hisar O 100?

Huelague said:

What is Hisar O 100?

ASELSAN | HİSAR O 100 Orta İrtifa Hava ve Füze Savunma Sistemi Göreve Hazır

HİSAR O 100 Orta İrtifa Hava ve Füze Savunma Sistemi göreve hazır, sahada güçlü. #ASELSAN🌐HİSAR O 100 Medium Range Air and Missile Defense System is ready f...

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Just plain old Hisar O

Huelague said:

What is Hisar O 100?

ASELSAN | HİSAR O 100 Orta İrtifa Hava ve Füze Savunma Sistemi Göreve Hazır

HİSAR O 100 Orta İrtifa Hava ve Füze Savunma Sistemi göreve hazır, sahada güçlü. #ASELSAN🌐HİSAR O 100 Medium Range Air and Missile Defense System is ready f...

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Regular Hisar-O. Aselsan started a numbering system on their models last year or the other year. First number usually denote the version. For gun based systems second number usually mean the caliber. Regular Korkut for example is now Korkut 150/35. Arma 8x8 based Korkut is Korkut 140/35, while the new smaller Ejder based one is Korkut 100/25.

We haven't been able to decipher how they give the version numbers so far. Some say *30 is for towed systems, 40 for wheeled and 50 for tracked. But that's not final as seen from Korkut 100/25.

Enfal. Again, a huge pod with less missiles.

Huelague said:

Enfal. Again, a huge pod with less missiles.

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Bigger range means bigger missile. I don't like those small missiles with only 2 km range, at that range you can use the 35 mm revolver cannon.

Strong AI said:

Bigger range means bigger missile. I don't like those small missiles with only 2 km range, at that range you can use the 35 mm revolver cannon.

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No, that’s not the point.
Why do the pod has only four launcher for 4 missiles like Cirit pod?

MKE MALAMAN

@Anmdt
Do we have a ring of Sonar buoys around our „Mavi Vatan“?

When you look at Türkiye’s missile development from the 1990s to today, you can clearly see an evolutionary chain. It didn’t suddenly go from “nothing” to “boom, 2000 km ballistic missile.” Step by step, each generation solved a different technological barrier.

The estimated progression and approximate ranges look something like this:

Yıldırım → 150–300 km
Bora → 280–360 km
Tayfun-1 → 600–800 km
Tayfun-2 → 800–1000 km
Tayfun-3 → 1000–1500 km
Tayfun-4 → 1500–2500 km
Cenk → 2000–4000 km
Yıldırımhan → 4000–6000 km +

Back in the 90s, Türkiye had systems like the Nike Hercules SAM. Most people only saw them as air defense missiles, but from an engineering perspective they were basically a school for: large rocket motors, high-speed flight, booster technology, long-range flight behavior.

That’s probably why rumors about “modified Nike Hercules missiles being tested in a surface-to-surface role” never completely disappeared. Most likely not an operational ballistic missile, but definitely useful for engineering studies and experimentation.

Then the Chinese B611/Yıldırım line enters the picture, and that’s where the real turning point begins. For the first time Türkiye starts learning: mobile TEL operations, real ballistic flight profiles, solid-fuel operational missiles, military-grade production standards. In my opinion, the Yıldırım project was Türkiye’s real missile school. Also Don't forget Toros 230/260

Then came Bora, and honestly Bora was far more important than many people realized. It wasn’t just about range anymore. Türkiye was solving: precision guidance, modern INS systems, lower CEP values, reliable solid fuel, serial production capability.

You could already see hints of this during the precision ballistic strikes carried out in Northern Iraq in the 2010s.

Then Tayfun appears and suddenly the whole game changes. The 561 km test was basically a message saying:
“we are no longer staying inside the MTCR comfort zone.”

After that point the focus becomes: larger motors, higher-energy propellants, lighter airframes, re-entry technology.

And when you look at the Tayfun TELs and missile diameters, it’s obvious Türkiye is no longer operating in the classic SRBM category. Tayfun-3 and Tayfun-4 genuinely look like the transition into MRBM territory.

Cenk, to me, feels like Türkiye openly saying: yes, we now have a medium-range ballistic missile. Even the name sounds intentionally strategic.

Yıldırımhan is an entirely different league. If even half of the claimed numbers are real, then people are no longer discussing SRBMs. They’re starting to talk about:

IRBM capability,
and potentially even the foundations for ICBM-class systems.

The interesting part is this:
Back in the 2000s people were asking:
“Can Türkiye even build ballistic missiles?”

Today the debate has become:
“Did they build a 3000 km missile or a 6000 km missile?”

Personally, I think the most critical achievement is Türkiye reaching maturity in large-diameter solid rocket motors/UDMH + N₂O₄ hypergolic propellants and guidance systems. Once you solve those two areas, range growth stops being linear and starts becoming exponential.

At that point, range itself becomes more of a political choice. The real question becomes what kind of warhead you can place on the missile and how advanced your guidance algorithms actually are.

Karaok now has 4km range and omtas/L-omtas 5km. I wonder if umtas also got an upgrade?

Pokemonte13 said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2056398593620119806

Karaok now has 4km range and omtas/L-omtas 5km. I wonder if umtas also got an upgrade?

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You must have had temporary brain freeze mate. Unless you were joking
Umtas GM block 1 16km range fired from land, 20km fired from air; and Block 2 ; 50km fired from air, 32km from land platforms.

Yasar_TR said:

You must have had temporary brain freeze mate. Unless you were joking
Umtas GM block 1 16km range fired from land, 20km fired from air; and Block 2 ; 50km fired from air, 32km from land platforms.

https://turkiyedefenceindustry.quora.com/ROKETSAN-NEW-UMTAS-GM-long-range-anti-tank-missile

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i mean standard Umtas