Aselsan bags national missile system contract

[Lankan Ranger]

Aselsan bags national missile system contract

Turkey’s leading military electronics company Aselsan and the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries, or SSM, have signed two major contracts for the development of indigenous low and medium altitude air defence missile systems, the company revealed in a special press release on Monday.

Request for proposal for the low level air defence system (T-LALADMIS) was first issued by SSM in September 2008, and entails the procurement of 18 self-propelled, armored air defence systems, support and training equipment, maintenance tools, spare parts and other relevant services and documents required for the efficient operation of the systems. An option also exists for 27 additional such systems in the immediate future.

Also awarded to Aselsan is a medium-range air defence system development program, dubbed T-MALADMIS, and it entails direct procurement of one medium altitude air defense missile system composed of one battalion headquarters and headquarters company and three batteries, each of which has a sufficient amount of launchers, missiles, radars, command-control and communication systems and other support equipment.

Cost of Aselsan’s T-LALADMIS program design and development is 314,920,445 EURO, while T-MALADMIS amounts to 241,392,218 EURO.

Turkey is also seeking to acquire 12 long-range air defence systems as part of SSM’s $4 billion T-LORADMIS program. USA-based Patriot PAC-3 and Russia’s S-300 are currently favorites in a tough competition against China’s HQ-9 and European Aster-30 air defence systems.

Aselsan bags national missile system contract | TR Defence

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Wonderful news, I am sure Turkey can develop some wonderful assets , with this kind of continued support from Turkey government - sometimes I wonder if we also have similar programs in our Military or not

 

[Pax Ottomana]

I'll be really, really pissed if the new missile turns out to be a Turkish version of Stinger produced under license and not some new, indigenous one with a much longer range.

Hopefully after this program, all the Turkish KMS systems will upgrade to this new missile.

 

[Faheka]

1billion dollars r&d program for a stinger like platform... think before u speak..

 

[cabatli_53]

I'll be really, really pissed if the new missile turns out to be a Turkish version of Stinger produced under license and not some new, indigenous one with a much longer range.

Hopefully after this program, all the Turkish KMS systems will upgrade to this new missile.

As Faheke said, Noone pays almost 1 billion $ Design & Development budget for development of a Stinger like missile. Stinger is classified a VSHORAD and have an initial booster motor to take first action to be launched from launcher, then second motor takes action to carry the missile against targets. That's the main characteristic of Manpads and hard to engage fast coming missiles with them.

Besides, Turkey did not start those air defence programs to replace Stinger missiles with newer one. All missile programs have different air layer (VSHORAD-SHORAD-MEDIUM-Long Altitude) to protect in accordance with their performance specifications.