ASELSAN and Türkiye’s Presidency of Defence Industries, known as SSB, have signed contracts worth a combined €2.46 billion for the procurement of hybrid air-defence systems. The company’s announcement on October 5, 2026 identified the parties, the aggregate value and the purpose of the procurement. It did not disclose a delivery timetable, the number of separate packages or the quantities and specific systems covered by the contracts.
The development was reported the same day by Anadolu Agency, TRT Haber and Demirören News Agency on the basis of ASELSAN’s investor disclosure and the information published through Türkiye’s Public Disclosure Platform. All three reports gave the same contracting parties, procurement description and €2.46 billion value. Those core facts are therefore consistent across the primary corporate disclosure and multiple news reports.
What has been disclosed about the scope?
The public statement says the agreements concern the procurement of “Hybrid Air Defence Systems.” It does not explain which sensors, command-and-control elements, interceptors or support infrastructure are included under that description in this contract. Assigning the agreement to a specific product list, or stating when deliveries will begin, would go beyond the information currently available.
ASELSAN’s published capability information shows that the company works across radar, early warning, command and control, and multiple layers of air and missile defence. In its description of the HERİKKS 600 air-defence operations centre, ASELSAN highlights the fusion of information from connected air-defence and early-warning radars to create a real-time air picture, along with data sharing across other defence systems. That material helps explain the logic of integrated air defence, but it does not establish that HERİKKS 600, or any other named product, is part of the newly announced contracts.
How the deal fits Türkiye’s existing programmes
SSB’s official project pages describe SİPER as a long-range, high-altitude system intended to counter targets including combat aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and helicopters. In July 2026, SSB also said additional serial-production agreements had been signed with ASELSAN and ROKETSAN for the HİSAR-A and HİSAR-O systems, while work continued to strengthen a layered air-defence architecture. The new €2.46 billion announcement is a further institutional disclosure showing the scale of procurement activity in this field.
However, the October 5 notice did not directly link the new contracts to a particular HİSAR or SİPER package. It remains unclear which platforms will be delivered, how production will be phased, what localisation targets apply, how payments are structured or when individual deliveries are expected. Until official details are released, converting the contract value into an assumed number of batteries, radars or interceptors would be speculative.
Why the announcement matters
At €2.46 billion, the disclosed value makes the agreements a significant air-defence procurement announcement for ASELSAN. Because the counterparty is a government procurement authority, the deal is relevant both to Türkiye’s defence-acquisition programme and to ASELSAN’s order pipeline. For investors and industry observers, the next important disclosures will concern delivery periods, production-capacity requirements and the years in which contract revenue is expected to appear in the company’s financial statements.
For now, the verified conclusion is limited but clear: ASELSAN and SSB have signed contracts with a total value of €2.46 billion for hybrid air-defence systems. The system breakdown and implementation timetable have not yet been made public.
