Yes but currently the only short range systems I know of are korkut
It's about the scale of the solution needed I think. Turkish army ordered 14 Korkut systems (with 42 firing units) in total along with existing GDF gun modernised by Aselsan. All of them are already delivered. (Korkuts)
There were no addition orders for Korkut afaik. At least from publicly available sources. There should be at least several dozen more Korkut systems if you think about the scale of potential uav threats.
I hope after these HISAR and SIPER orders, they turn their attention to this.
No I know and understand that, we've been improving a lot since the times where we only had those Hawks and some WW2 style AA guns. But I dont think we have the numbers that we need.
Sure, numbers could always go up, but as
@Sanchez stated, we don't know what is actually included in these anti-air orders but if I had to bet, I would bet that some sort of short range aa cannon *is* included. My point here is, for once, we managed to be ahead of the pack thanks to harsh lessons we learned in Syria.
For example, just this summer, I read news about how France was upgrading their old 20 or 30 mm cannons to be used against drones whereas we have already done so with our 35 mms and we could easily do so with the 20 mm cannons we still have as well, especially since Aselsan CEO already said they were working on 20 mm ATOM as well, perhaps old 40 mm cannons could be next. Germany just ordered Skyranger while we have been getting Korkut for years and will either keep producing it or switch to Gürz or Burç.
