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Turkey enhanced its multi-layered air and missile defense network, dubbed the “Steel Dome,” with the integration of an additional locally-made SİPER long-range air defense system, the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) announced on January 4.
In a statement, SSB President Haluk Görgün said that the SİPER Block 1 system entered active service following a live-fire test
The test featured a complex and challenging scenario involving the simultaneous maneuvering of both friendly and hostile aircraft.
The system successfully identified, engaged, and destroyed its designated target, unequivocally demonstrating its long-range interception prowess and operational readiness for high-intensity contested environments.
“The systems, developed with national resources and whose mass production continues steadily, are being added to the inventory one by one to strengthen the Turkish Armed Forces,” Görgün said. “With each delivery, we further enhance the field deterrence and layered defense capability of our Steel Dome architecture.”
Aselsan, responsible for critical subsystems including radar and command-and-control, verified that the serial production battery performed flawlessly during the acceptance test.
Meanwhile, Roketsan, the missile supplier, underscored the system’s precision, noting that “SIPER struck its target with full accuracy.”
The system was originally planned as Hisar-U. However, after it was concluded that Hisar-U could not meet Turkey’s long-range air defense missile needs with its current structure, it was decided to transform Hisar-U into a new missile family. This missile family was named SİPER and the name of Hisar-U was changed to SİPER Block 1.
The SİPER Block 1 missile was designed by adding a booster to the Hisar-O+ RF missile and modifying some other parts. The missile, which is equipped with an active radar seeker, is reported to have a range of 70-100 kilometers, and an engagement altitude of 20 kilometers.
Turkey is already working on Block 2 and Block 3 missiles, with a range of 150 and over 180 kilometers, and an altitude of 30 kilometers and more, respectively.
SİPER-series systems will form the upper tear of the Steel Dome. The multi-layered network combines air defense systems developed by Turkey using domestic technology, meaning the country’s S-400 long-range air defense systems won’t be a part of it.
The SİPER Block 1 lacks in many ways the face of the S-400, but it is clear that Ankara is developing the system to replace the latter.
The S-400’s 48N6-series missile, which also features onboard active radar seeker, has a range of over 200 kilometers and an engagement range of over 27 kilometers. Missiles of this type has been exported to Turkey as a part of the 2,5 billion deal signed in 2017.
The S-400 deal caused a rift between Turkey and the United States, which ended up expelling Ankara from the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet program. Now, Turkey is doing everything in its ability to go back into the program. Thus, the accelerating development and deployment of SİPER-series systems is not surprising.
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i do not know what this means. turkey follows the greater israel projects agenda in many theaters. the s-400 is an impressive platform for conventional missiles and aircraft. which way will turkey aim the systems ?
youre right you don’t know. anti semitic propgandas very old school globalist imperialist programming for the tyrants dictators autocratic powers seeking totalitarian control. now you might.
he’s just a fantasist nazi sympathiser playing the act of some sort of informed opinion
recent months saw a large u.s. military build up in the caribbean, with socom deploying assists in puerto rico and near trinidad and tobago…………………………… https://psee.io/8jqu9r
so currently it has less than half the range of an s-400 and only two-thirds the ceiling? not very good at reverse-engineering, are they?
prince machiavellian master of deceitful manipulations so transparently i’d be confident you’ve never even read any book let alone his.
go turkey!! who needs russian garbage… s400 was bought to study and scrap yard it will go. foolish russians selling there formidable defence systems to nato. l o s e r s…….
it will end up in ukrianian or isreali hands after the usa have studied it enough