TR Defence Exports & Updates

[Zafer]

Defense Industries President Haluk Görgün said on social media that defense and aerospace exports have reached a new peak: "In August 2025, our defense and aerospace exports amounted to $834 million, an increase of 97.3%. Between January and August, total exports increased by 45 percent, reaching $5.418 billion."

According to my calculations, Turkish arms exports will exceed $8 billion this year.

One Russian expert, analyzing the pace of development of the Turkish military-industrial complex over the past 20 years, called it "Stalin's pace!"
This is the highest praise for Russians.

https://www.forbes.com.tr/makale/savunma-sanayisinde-agustos-ihracati-834-milyon-dolar

2024 exports was $7.154bn, if the 45% increase is kept through the rest of the year it makes 10.37bn, passing the $10bn barrier.

 

[mTT]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966059416974729369

 

[Ripley]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966018205366833162

Defense Minister Yaşar Güler visited Vietnam President Luong Cuong.
I can think of some possible deals.

 

[Saithan]

I am thinking uav or other unmanned stuff. Not sure if Vietnam would buy OPV from us.

 

[Ripley]

I am thinking uav or other unmanned stuff. Not sure if Vietnam would buy OPV from us.

Yeah. UAV top of my list.

 

[Sanchez]

It's interesting. It is clearly on the British armed forces pavilion "Land Static Display" section alongside Ajax, Boxer and Challenger but noone else is reporting it. NMS is showcased both in this pavilion and also by Nurol alongside Ejder in their own section. So it's clear that NMS is in extensive testing with UK MoD; but unclear why NMS is shown at the pavilion alongside already actively in use vehicles while other contenders from the same program are missing.

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Where I got the screenshots from. Pretty big showing from Turkish companies, BMC, Aselsan and Roketsan are also visible.

Finally able to see the poster next to it, it's a sales pitch for Nurol UK and its offered vehicles, Ejder(Dragon), NMS(Nomad) and NMS-L(Lurcher). Still very interesting:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966263282584662174

 

[Ripley]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966468563394347215

“Turkey has officially applied to join the EU's SAFE defense program...
According to Euractiv's news, Turkey and South Korea have officially applied to join the 150 billion euro SAFE program for European defense. The news also included statements from European Commission Spokesperson Thomas Rainier regarding the applications being received “

 

[Tornadoss]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1966468563394347215

“Turkey has officially applied to join the EU's SAFE defense program...
According to Euractiv's news, Turkey and South Korea have officially applied to join the 150 billion euro SAFE program for European defense. The news also included statements from European Commission Spokesperson Thomas Rainier regarding the applications being received “

Probably Greece and SC will block it.