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Better agility? Uçaksan been there pretty much I just feel like these simpler types should be offloaded to smaller firms to help them grow faster, distribute production, and take away workload from the bigger ones

Like I said earlier, I honestly want a "not-HÜRJET" naval HÜRJET that at least has some signature management and probably structural reinforcements to handle bigger munitions (GEZGİN, 300 ER, SOM-J......)

They are more than likely to change, but TUSAŞ going beyond statements and presenting it at SAHA EXPO little or big still means something It is also giving us some idea on what are they going for, roughly. For example, they underline compactness and CATOBAR/STOBAR compatibility.

https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-kalekalip-unveils-ks-suppressor-family KALEKALIP's suppressor family, even available to KMGs It is rare to see a Turkish firm making something this compact

https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-upgrades-on-havelsan-s-barkan-3-ugv Barkan 3 UGV has more than upscaling, they made some big revisions on the sensor and communication side for operator quaility of life

Something else indeed came interesting, the first preliminary presentation of Naval HÜRJET from the same panel

I ve been talking with my fellow media people on this, someone came and said, "why not put CİRİT C-UAS on one slot and SUNGUR on another"

You know whats good? A neatly sized turret with a long barrel 30x113 mm and lots of ammunition Maybe with cirit c-uas on it

Maybe I did not state it (Because there has been no need to so far) but I don't take someone trying to get something severe out of my mouth on uncertain topics lightly. Or if I was to put it in an undiplomatic and a blunt language: Don't be approaching me like that, it pisses me off. If you...

Yeah, we all should check the posts but I'm happy that this part of the expo got attention. There was more to it at that panel and I am scrolling around my gallery to see what else comes interesting

Couldnt really check, I still got a ton of stuff to write about

If it aint about how many grams of caffeine I am on sure

https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-tuebitak-shows-uav-air-to-air-radar-pod This time BİLGEM made a radar pod for smaller UCAVs

https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-ejderha-ad-210-c-uas-hpem-with-upgrades EJDERHA/AD 210 seems to be something more capable of handling things on its own not only with a bigger antenna but its own sensors too (That coaxial optic though :D)

I hate prejudice, we'll see what will happen

https://turdef.com/article/turkish-mod-backs-yildirimhan-and-guechan-at-saha-expo Turkish MoD R&D statement regarding the whole shock and debate from YILDIRIMHAN and GÜÇHAN "TurDef learned that both programmes had been developed under extraordinary secrecy. A source speaking to TurDef compared...

Everything is obivious but I don't want the smoke that comes with declaring what is obivious. The media-company relations in Türkiye are weird at times.

That typo is way worse in the original with 8x SÜPER ŞİMŞEK, I improvised

https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-tusas-shows-anka-iii-ucav-s-loadouts ANKA-III has some interesting options like, MURAD 100-A, KARAT, TOYGUN, LAÇİN-82, and UAV-230 Also, we are getting 8x TOLUN internally, think of the possibilities with the new variants

https://turdef.com/article/saha-expo-2026-roketsan-s-c-uas-specialised-cirit-variant starting with further details on CİRİT C-UAS, it is actually well-optimised with new flight control algorithms and RF proximtiy fuse (Been expecting laser but hey, who cares)