President of Defense Industry Prof. Dr İsmail Demir held a meeting on “Evaluation of the Year 2020 and 2021 Goals” with the representatives of the press organizations and explained the targets.
Prof. Dr According to Demir's statement, the 2021 schedule is as follows:
Aerospace
The first deliveries will be made at Akıncı TİHA.
Aksungur SİHA mass production will continue.
First deliveries of Atak Phase-2 will begin.
Mini, Tactical, Operative and Strategic class UAVs and SİHAs and projects for the execution of swarm system tasks will be implemented.
The final stage has been reached for the Sungur Air Defense System to be included in the inventory.
Structural improvements of the F-16s have begun, the structural improvement of the first two F-16 Block-30 aircraft has been completed and delivered.
The design activities and wind tunnel tests of the National Combat Aircraft (MMU) continue. Designs of subsystems will begin.
In the MELTEM-3 Project, 3 Marine Patrol Aircraft and Marine Utility Aircraft will be delivered.
In the Erciyes Project, 2 more C130 E/B transport aircraft, whose avionics (Aviation electronics) were modernized, will be delivered.
Air Defense, Weapons and Ammunition
The Low Altitude Air Defense Missile System HİSAR-A+ will enter the inventory and be delivered for the first time.
The tests of the Medium Altitude Air Defense Missile System HİSAR-O+ will be completed and it will be ready to enter the inventory.
In the Long-Range Air and Missile Defense System-SIPER Project, the detailed design of the system and subsystem components will be completed in cooperation with ASELSAN-ROKETSAN-TÜBİTAK SAGE.
The first national anti-ship missile will be delivered at ATMACA.
The first delivery of Domestic and National Torpedo AKYA will begin.
The first delivery of the Anti-Tank Weapon KARAOK, Used by a Single Private, will be made.
Over-flight tests of short and medium/long-range BOZDOĞAN and GÖKDOĞAN air-to-air missiles developed for air superiority of warplanes will be completed.
Delivery of the first national 7,62 mm machine guns (PMT 7,62) developed for platforms will begin.
Instead of the Modular Gunpowder System supplied from abroad, the delivery of locally developed systems will begin.
Within the scope of the project initiated to increase the efficiency of the use of mortar weapons in the inventory, the first modernized mortar weapons will be delivered.
The Laser Weapon System Project will be launched for the first time for the General Directorate of Security.
Foreign dependency on explosives used in rocket and missile systems will be reduced; Production at the ROKETSAN Explosive Raw Material Production Facility will continue.
Marine Projects
The Multi-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship ANADOLU will be delivered.
Test and Training Ship Horizon will be delivered.
The 1st Ship will be delivered within the scope of the Logistics Support Ship-LDG Project.
The 5th Ship of the MİLGEM Project, the İ-class frigate İSTANBUL, will be launched.
Within the scope of the New Type Submarine Project, the 1st Submarine will be launched and the 2nd Submarine will be pulled into the pool.
New projects for unmanned surface and underwater vehicles will be launched.
Land Vehicles Projects
Prototype production of the Heavy Class Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UAV) will be carried out.
The first vehicles in the middle-class SPG Level 2 will be delivered, and the contract will be signed for Level 1.
The first products will be delivered at all 3 levels of the Light Class SPG.
First deliveries of Pars 6×6 Mine Protected Vehicles, which will be the first in the TAF inventory, will be made.
Contracts for Tank Carrier Vehicles and Trailers, Wheeled Container Carrier and Wheeled Recovery Vehicle Projects will be signed.
Electronic Systems
KTJ3200
The first delivery of the KTJ3200 Turbojet Engine to be used in SOM and ATMACA missiles will be made.
The prototype of the BATU tank engine developed for the ALTAY Tank will be started.
The prototype of the UTKU engine and transmission developed for New Generation Light Armored Vehicles will be launched.
The first system will be delivered in the High-Frequency Electronic Attack (HF ET / MİLKAR-4A2) Project.
The first delivery of the Early Warning Radar System (EIRS), which will meet the early warning needs of the air forces with domestic systems instead of foreign systems, will be made.
The first mass-production Radar ET Systems will be delivered in the Radar Electronic Support (ED)/Electronic Attack (ET) Systems Project.
Mass production of CATS cameras for SİHAs will continue. In the advanced version ASELFLIR-F500C Project, the design phase will be started and the ASELFLIR-600 project will be started.
Prof. Dr İsmail Demir also listed what they did in 2020 as follows:
Aerospace in 2020
Akıncı TİHA is ready for mass production. The first flight of the second prototype was made. Work has begun on the 3rd prototype.
The serial production activity of Aksungur SİHA has started.
The first domestic probe rocket launched within the scope of the Micro Satellite Launch System Project rose to an altitude of 130 kilometres and became the first Turkish vehicle to go into space.
Within the scope of the Meltem-3 Project, the first P-72 Naval Patrol Aircraft was delivered to the Naval Forces Command.
Kamikaze Mini UAV KARGU-2 and Armed Mini/Micro UAV SONGAR started to be used for the first time.
Within the scope of the F-16 Structural Improvement Project, the structural improvement of the first two F-16 Block-30 aircraft was completed and delivered to the Air Force.
The design activities and wind tunnel tests of the National Combat Aircraft (MMU) continued. Subsystems were selected.
Air Defense, Weapons and Ammunition in 2020
The final acceptance tests of the Low Altitude Air Defense Missile System HİSAR-A+ were carried out successfully and it is ready to enter the inventory.
The routine tests of the Medium Altitude Air Defense Missile System HİSAR-O+ were successfully carried out.
The final stage has been reached for the Sungur Air Defense System, which can be integrated into land, air and sea platforms with its portable feature, to be included in the inventory.
Airborne tests of short and medium/long-range BOZDOĞAN and GÖKDOĞAN air-to-air missiles developed to ensure air superiority of Turkish warplanes have begun.
The tests of the first national anti-ship missile ATMACA have come to an end, the process of entering the inventory has begun.
The TRLG-230 Missile System was developed so that it can hit the targets marked by UAVs and SİHAs from the ground by integrating a laser seeker head into the TRG-230 Missile System.
Portable Ammunition Systems, which provide uninterrupted firing for 7.62 and 5.56 machine guns, were offered to security forces for the first time.
ROKETSAN Explosive Raw Material Production Facility, which will reduce foreign dependency on raw materials needed for missile and rocket warhead explosives, has been put into service.
Marine Projects in 2020
The port acceptance tests of the Multi-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship ANADOLU, which will be the largest ship of the Turkish Navy, have begun.
The construction of the Test and Training Ship Horizon has been completed, and the sea acceptance tests have begun.
2 Emergency Response Diving Training Boats and the second of the new SAT Boats were delivered to the Naval Forces Command.
Land Vehicles Projects in 2020
Within the scope of FIRAT M60T Project, PULAT Active Protection System qualification activities were completed and started to be integrated into tanks.
As part of the modernization of the Leopard 2A4 tanks, the installation of additional armour packages on the tanks has begun.
The first KIRAÇ vehicles produced within the scope of the New Generation Criminal Investigation Vehicle Project, which will be a first in Turkey, were delivered to the General Directorate of Security.
The Pars 6×6 Mine-Protected Armored Combat Vehicle, which will enter the TAF inventory for the first time, has been assembled for the first time.
With intensive design and integration work, the modernization of the prototype Armored Combat Vehicle (ZMA) was completed.
Electronic Systems in 2020
The National Friend Foe Identification/Identification System (IFF Mod-5) was integrated into the F-16 aircraft.
Serial production has begun on CATS cameras, which will be mounted on SİHAs and put into use. Advanced version UAV Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Targeting System ASELFLIR-F500C Project was launched.
Caracal High-Frequency Shortening and Listening System entered the TAF inventory for the first time.
The New Generation Koral Electronic Warfare System Project was launched.
The Electronic Warfare Coordination Center (SEHKOM) was established and started to operate.
The ROBOTIM Project, in which artificial intelligence-supported unmanned aerial and land vehicles will operate in a herd, in a non-GPS environment and fully autonomously, has been launched.
The National Scanning System (MILTAR) Project contract was signed to produce x-ray vehicle and container scanning systems, which are produced only in 7 countries in the world, with domestic means.
Deliveries were made within the scope of the Electronic Concrete Monitoring System Project initiated for the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.
In 2020 R&D, Cyber Security, Training, Support, Export
Within the scope of R&D projects; Technology studies at various levels continued on additive manufacturing, materials, infrared, laser and electromagnetic, electro-optics, artificial intelligence and autonomy, broadband mobile communication and warfare systems, energetic materials, CBRN and RF technologies.
Cyber Security Week was organized for the first time in Turkey, and the importance of domestic and national cyber security was discussed at the highest level.
Demir said, “I would like to remind you that we have done all this despite various embargoes, both implicitly and openly. Hopefully, we will continue on our way by further increasing our targets in 2021.” said.
Noting that the Turkish defence industry, together with its ecosystem, universities, research centres and companies, is showing an increasing success rate, Demir emphasized that this success was achieved together and said, "I hope we will continue to write a success story together."
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