
ASELSAN’s GÖKALP Interceptor Destroys Target Drone in Test
At ASELSAN’s Oğulbey demonstration, the AURA radar detected a target drone, DRONEDEF passed the tracking data to GÖKALP E1, and the interceptor destroyed the target through direct impact.

At ASELSAN’s Oğulbey demonstration, the AURA radar detected a target drone, DRONEDEF passed the tracking data to GÖKALP E1, and the interceptor destroyed the target through direct impact.

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Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 for high-volume, cost-sensitive work, with tiered token pricing, adjustable effort and availability across major cloud platforms.

Microsoft opened preorders for the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra and made Execution Containers generally available to restrict AI agent access on Windows PCs.

TUA signed a framework agreement extending a multinational CubeSat project and a goodwill agreement with the UK Space Agency at IAC 2026.

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ASELSAN signed new export contracts worth $157.9 million across six technology areas.

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