17/01/2018
|The HİSAR Low and Medium Altitude Air Defence system has been designed by Roketsan. It is the First National Air Defence Missile system of Turkey (Credit: Roketsan)
Turkish companies Aselsan, Roketsan and Tübitak Sage have signed an agreement with SSM, the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defence Industries, for a national long-range air defense system project.
Aselsan, Turkey's largest defense electronics company, announced on Tuesday that its share under the agreement was $227 million and $342 million and that the deliveries will be completed in 2021.
Roketsan, a major Turkish weapons manufacturer and defense contractor, designs, develops and manufactures rockets and missiles. Tübitak Sage is a Turkish institution carrying out research and development projects on defense industry technology.
Source: Army Recognition
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