SİPER
Turkish long-range surface-to-air missile defense system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SİPER (Trench) is a high to medium air defense surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. Designed to defend against any type of airborne threat, it can fight aircraft, cruise missiles, air-to-ground missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).[3] It was jointly developed in Turkey by the companies Roketsan, Aselsan and the research institute TÜBİTAK SAGE.[4]
| SİPER Air Defence System | |
|---|---|
| Type | Surface-to-air/anti-ballistic missile |
| Place of origin | Turkey |
| Service history | |
| In service | 2024 – present |
| Used by | Turkey |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Aselsan Roketsan Tübitak Defense |
| Manufacturer | Roketsan |
| Produced | 2023 - present |
| Specifications | |
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| Warhead | High Explosive |
Detonation mechanism | Calculated delay proximity fuze |
| Engine | Solid propellant, two-stage motor |
Operational range |
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Guidance system |
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The SİPER system project was launched by the Presidency of Defence Industries in 2018. The missile is developed by Roketsan, and most sensors and electronics by Aselsan.
Siper Block 1
During the first firing test, which took place at the test range in Sinop, northern Turkey in December 2022, the SİPER Block 1 missile successfully demonstrated the ability to detect, track and hit a high-speed target aircraft at a range exceeding 100 km (62 mi).[5] It was announced that SİPER will be put into service within 2024.[4] SİPER successfully passed its final test on 13 May 2023, hitting a long-distance target.[6] In October 2024 Siper Block-1 entered the inventory.[7]
Siper Block 2
The first firing test of Siper Block 2, which has a range of 150 km, was successfully completed in August 2023.[8]
Siper Block 3
Siper Block 3, which will have a range of 180 km+, is under development.[9]
Specifications[10]
- Air defence planning and coordination
- Management and distribution of information within the scope of command and control
- Combined aerial image production
- Multiple engagement and sequential firing
- Manual/semi-automatic/automatic engagement
- Friend-Foe Recognition (IFF)
- Threat assessment and weapons allocation
- Automated diagnostics management
- Multi-target multi-radar fusion, Bidirectional communication with missiles
- Wired/wireless communication
- Upright/oblique shot
- Ability to work in harsh conditions
- Interface with HvBS, Radnet connection
- Link to higher command via tactical data links (Link-16, JREAP-C)
- Embedded simulation
- Ability to operate with 8 FFS, each of which can fire 6 missiles
See also
References
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