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Roketsan Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S. is a Turkish weapons manufacturer and defense contractor based in Ankara, Turkey. Incorporated in 1988 by Turkey's Defense Industry Executive Committee (SSİK) to establish the nation's industrial base on missile technology, the company has quickly risen to become one of Turkey's top 500 industrial corporations.
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| Company type | Joint-stock company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Defense Technology Software Aerospace |
| Founded | 1988, Ankara |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Murat Ikinci (General Manager) |
| Products | Rockets Missiles Cruise missiles Mortars Propellants[1] Peripheral test Simulation systems |
| Revenue |  $1.1 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 3800 (2022) |
| Website | www.roketsan.com.tr |
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Roketsan's current share holders include Turkish Armed Forces Foundation (55.5%), ASELSAN (15%), MKEK (15%), Vakıflar Bankası (10%), HAVELSAN (4.5%).[2] Roketsan is best known for its wide range of guided and unguided rockets as well as guided missiles such as Bora, Tayfun, Atmaca, Cirit, UMTAS and OMTAS. The company also produces subsystems for Stinger, Rapier and ESSM missiles and provides technology and engineering solutions for other integrated civilian and military platforms. Recent developments highlight small-diameter precision-strike bombs for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Roketsan is the only Turkish company to have obtained CMMI/ DEV 3 (Capability Maturity Model Integration – for Development) approval for all its design and development processes.[3]
It was ranked 96th in 2018 and 89th in 2019 in Defense News' most valuable defense industry companies list.[4] In 2023, it was ranked 80th.[5]
The company is one of the organizers of the Teknofest Aerospace and Technology Festival.[6]
Roketsan, was founded on 14 June 1988 by the decision of the Defense Industries Executive Committee for the purpose of “Establishing a leading institution in the country for designing, developing and manufacturing rockets and missiles”.[7]
Roketsan signed a contract in 2013 to build the project of the national UFS Space Launch System.[8] In 2013, the Government of Turkey approved the construction of its first satellite launching center by Roketsan.[9] In August 2020, the Roketsan Satellite Launch, Space Systems and Advanced Technologies Research Center was established.[10]
On 29 June 2021, the governments of Turkey and Bangladesh signed a defence memorandum of understanding for the export of Roketsan products to Bangladesh, according to İsmail Demir, president of Presidency of Defense Industries.[11] Roketsan had already delivered the TRG-300 Tiger MLRS to the Bangladesh Army in June 2021 in a separate deal.[12] Bangladesh was set to become one of the top defence equipment clients of Turkey and Roketsan in the following few years. In October 2021, the Bangladesh Army received a second batch of the TRG-300 Tiger missile system.[13]
Shareholder structure of Roketsan is: [7]
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| Land Systems | ||
| Name | Type | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Base Bleed Unit (DYÜ)[14] | Range Extender for Artillery Shells | +%30 |
| TRGK-30[15] | Guidance Kit | 40–90 km |
| Artillery Rockets[16] | Artillery Rocket | TR-107 : 3–11+ km
TR-122 : 16–36 km TRB-122 :16–36 km |
| T-122 Sakarya | Multiple rocket launcher | 16–40 km |
| T-107 | Multiple rocket launcher | 3–40 km |
| Multi Caliber Rocket Launcher MCL[17] | Multi Purpose Rocket Launcher | 10–280 km |
| TRG-300[18] | Guided rocket artillery | Block I: 30–120 km
Block II: 20–90 km |
| TRG-122[19] | Guided rocket artillery | 13–30 km |
| TRLG-122[20] | Laser-guided rocket artillery | 13–30 km |
| TRG-230[21] | Guided rocket artillery | 20–70 km |
| TRLG-230[22] | Laser-guided rocket artillery | 20–70 or 150 km |
| J-600T Yıldırım | Ballistic missile | Block l: 150 km
Block ll: 300 km Block lll: 900 km Block lV: 2500 km |
| Bora (missile) | Ballistic missile | Block l: 80–280 km
Block ll: 100-360 km |
| Tayfun (missile) | Ballistic missile | 380–600 km |
| Cenk (missile) | Ballistic missile | 400–1000 km |
| Air Defense Systems | ||
| Name | Type | Range |
| ALKA Directed Energy Weapon System (YESS)[23] | Directed Energy Weapon System | Laser: 500 m
Electromagnetic Destruction System (ETS): 1.000 m Electromagnetic Jamming System (EKS): 4.000 m |
| Hisar-A | Air Defense Missile System | 2–15 km |
| Hisar-O | Air Defense Missile System | 3–25 km |
| Hisar-RF | Air Defense Missile System | 3–40 km |
| SİPER | Air Defense Missile System | 30–150 km |
| PorSav[24][25][26] | MANPAD | 4 km -6 km+[27]
(Also mounted on BMC Vuran vehicle integrated with Sungur Mobile air defense missile system) |
| Sungur | MANPAD | 500 m–8 km |
| Licensed production of FIM-92 Stingers[28] | MANPAD | 4.8 km+ |
| Naval Systems | ||
| Name | Type | Range |
| Anti-submarine warfare launcher system ASW[29] | Submarine Defense Rocket | Laser: 500–2.000 m |
| Atmaca | Long Range Anti-ship missile | > 250 km |
| Çakır | Medium range Anti-ship missile | 150+ km |
| AKYA 533mm[30] | Heavy Torpedo | 50 km range[31] |
| Roketsan ORKA 324 mm[32][33][34][35] | Lightweight Torpedo | 25 km range[36] |
| HIZIR[37] | Torpedo Countermeasure System | Aselsan joint production |
| TORK[38] | Anti-Torpedo | Aselsan joint production |
| ZOKA[39] | Acoustic torpedo countermeasure jammers and decoys | Aselsan joint production |
| Precision Guided Missiles | ||
| Name | Type | Range |
| Roketsan Cirit | Laser Guided Anti-Tank Missile | 1.5 – 8 km |
| Roketsan TANOK 120mm[40] | Laser Guided Anti-Tank Missile | 1–6 km |
| Roketsan KARAOK 125mm[41] | Fire-and-forget Anti-Tank Missile | 2,500 m |
| Roketsan CİDA 90mm[42] | Guided missile | 50–750 m |
| Roketsan YATAĞAN 40 mm[43] | Laser-guided miniature missile system | 1,000 m |
| KARA ATMACA[44] | Surface-to-Surface Cruise Missile | 280 km |
| SOM A | Air-to-Surface Cruise Missile | 250 km |
| SOM B1 and B2 | Air-to-Surface Cruise Missile | 250 km |
| SOM J | Air-to-Surface Cruise Missile | 275 km |
| UMTAS 160 mm | Long range anti-tank missile system | 500–8,000 m |
| L-UMTAS 160 mm | Laser-guided long range anti-tank missile system | 500–8,000 m |
| OMTAS 160 mm[45] | Medium range anti-tank missile system | 200–4.000 m |
| Precision-guided munition | ||
| Name | Type | Range |
| Roketsan TEBER[46] | Laser Guidance Kit | 2–28 km |
| MAM-C high explosive variant | Laser-Guided UAV Bomb | 8 km |
| MAM-L thermobaric variant | Laser-Guided UAV Bomb | 8 km |
| MAM-T GPS/INS Guided variant[47][48] | Laser-Guided UCAV Bomb | 30 km launched from UCAVs
60 km launched from Ground attack aircraft 90 km launched from Multirole combat aircraft[49] |
| Ballistic Protection Systems | ||
| Name | Type | Ammunition Type Protected |
| RZK-7[50] | Composite Armor Blocks | Shrapnel - Mortar shell |
| RZK-10[51] | Areal Protection System | Shrapnel - Mortar shell |
| RZB-20/20B | Areal Protection System | Light weapons, Shrapnel and High explosives |
| ROKETSAN Ballistic Protection Center (BPC)[52] | Ballistic Protection System | Maximum protection against anti-tank missiles and RPG-type threats |
| Fuze Systems | ||
| Name | Type | Working system |
| 107 mm | Rocket Fuze | Impact, Precision/Delayed |
| 122 mm | Rocket Fuze | Impact, Precision/Delayed |
| 122 mm Proximity Rocket/Missile Fuze | Rocket Fuze | Impact, Time (0-200 s) Proximity (1–15 m) |
| 300 mm Proximity Rocket/Missile Fuze | Rocket Fuze | Impact, Time (0-200 s) Proximity (1–15 m) |
| 20 mm M56 (M505 A3) Ammo Fuze | Ammunition Fuze | Impact |
| Space Projects | ||
| Name | Type | Details |
| Space Launch System (Turkey) | Satellite Launch System | The Micro-Satellite Launching System (MSLS)[53] |
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