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Turkiye's First Navy Drone Boat Just Laid Smart Mines With Nobody Aboard
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Turkiye's First Navy Drone Boat Just Laid Smart Mines With Nobody Aboard

MARLIN shifts a dangerous shallow-water mission from crewed warships to autonomy software carried by a modular unmanned hull.

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SpacePro

Koral

KORAL is Aselsan's truck-mobile radar electronic-warfare system, pairing electronic support and electronic attack vehicles to detect, classify, jam and deceive hostile radars at stand-off range.

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Korkut

Korkut is Türkiye's twin-35mm radar-directed anti-aircraft gun — the gun rung of the "Steel Dome" ladder below the Hisar and Siper missiles. Firing airburst rounds that throw a cone of tungsten pellets, it's the Turkish gun answer to cheap drones, like the Gepard and Skynex.

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Siper

The Siper is Turkey's indigenous long-range SAM — the 100+ km top tier of the "Steel Dome" network, built after the S-400 purchase froze Ankara out of Western systems. Block 1 is operational, Block 2 (150+ km) is in test, and Blocks 3/4 promise missile defense.