Roketsan (Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret A.Ş.) is a Turkish 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.
Roketsan's current share holders include Turkish Armed Forces Foundation (55.5%), ASELSAN (15%), MKEK (15%), Vakıflar Bankası (10%), HAVELSAN (4.5%). Roketsan is best known for its wide range of guided and unguided rockets as well as guided such as Bora, Tayfun, Atmaca, Roketsan Cirit, UMTAS and OMTAS. The company also produces subsystems for Stinger, Rapier missile 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.
It was ranked 96th in 2018 and 89th in 2019 in Defense News' most valuable defense industry companies list. In 2023, it was ranked 80th.
The company is one of the organizers of the Teknofest Aerospace and Technology Festival.
Roketsan signed a contract in 2013 to build the project of the national UFS Space Launch System. In 2013, the Government of Turkey approved the construction of its first satellite launching center by Roketsan. In August 2020, the Roketsan Satellite Launch, Space Systems and Advanced Technologies Research Center and Explosive Raw Material Production Facility for HMX and RDX production were established. It was said that 55 tons of the country's annual raw material need of 80 tons will be produced nationally in these facilities by the end of the year.
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. Roketsan had already delivered the TRG-300 Tiger MLRS to the Bangladesh Army in June 2021 in a separate deal. 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. Roketsan started the construction of a new facility on a 9,500-acre land in Kırıkkale in December 2022. Roketsan decided to increase its production capacity by investing $407 million in Ankara and Kırıkkale in 2025.
Land warfare | ||
Base Bleed Unit (DYÜ) | Range Extender for Artillery Shells | +%30 |
TRGK-30 | Guidance Kit | 40–90 km |
Artillery rocket | Rocket artillery | 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 | Multi Purpose Rocket Launcher | 10–280 km |
TRG-300 | Guided rocket artillery | Block I: 30–120 km Block II: 20–90 km |
TRG-122 | Guided rocket artillery | 13–30 km |
TRLG-122 | Laser-guided rocket artillery | 13–30 km |
TRG-230 | Guided rocket artillery | 20–70 km |
TRLG-230 | 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) | Tactical ballistic missile | Block l: 80–280 km Block ll: 100-360 km |
Tayfun (missile) | Short-range ballistic missile | 380–800 km |
Cenk (missile) | Medium-range ballistic missile | 400–1000 km |
Air Defense Systems | ||
ALKA Directed Energy Weapon System (YESS) | 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 | 2–15 km |
Hisar-O | Air Defense | 3–25 km |
Hisar-RF | Air Defense | 3–40 km |
SİPER | Air Defense | 30–150 km |
Roketsan Levent | Air Defense | 2–11 km |
PorSav | MANPADS | 4 km -6 km+ (Also mounted on BMC Vuran vehicle integrated with Sungur Mobile air defense missile system) |
Sungur MANPAD | MANPADS | 500 m–8 km |
Licensed production of FIM-92 Stingers | MANPADS | 4.8 km+ |
Naval warfare | ||
ASW rocket launcher system | Submarine Defense Rocket | Laser: 500–2.000 m |
Atmaca | Long Range Anti-ship missile | > 250 km |
Çakır | Medium range Anti-ship missile | 150+ km |
Roketsan Akya 533mm | Heavy Torpedo | 50 km range |
Roketsan ORKA 324 mm | Lightweight Torpedo | 25 km range |
HIZIR | Torpedo Countermeasure System | Aselsan joint production |
TORK | Anti-Torpedo | Aselsan joint production |
ZOKA | Acoustic torpedo countermeasure jammers and | Aselsan joint production |
Precision Guided Missiles | ||
Roketsan Cirit | Laser Guided Anti-Tank Missile | 1.5 – 8 km |
UAV-122 | Laser Guided Air-to-surface missile | 55 km |
UAV-230 | Laser Guided Air-to-surface missile | 150 km |
TANOK 120mm | Laser Guided Anti-Tank Missile | 1–6 km |
Karaok 125mm | Fire-and-forget Anti-Tank Missile | 2,500 m |
Roketsan CİDA 90mm | Guided missile | 50–750 m |
Roketsan YATAĞAN 40 mm | Laser-guided miniature missile system | 1,000 m |
Atmaca | Surface-to-Surface Cruise missile | 400 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 | Medium range anti-tank missile system | 200–4.000 m |
Precision-guided munition | ||
Roketsan TEBER | Laser guidance | 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 | Laser-Guided UCAV Bomb | 30 km launched from UCAVs 60 km launched from Ground attack aircraft |
Ballistic Protection Systems | ||
RZK-7 | Composite armour | Cage armor Mortar shell |
RZK-10 | Areal Protection System | Shrapnel shell - Mortar shell |
RZB-20/20B | Areal Protection System | Light weapons, Shrapnel shell and High explosives |
ROKETSAN Ballistic Protection Center (BPC) | Ballistic Protection System | Maximum protection against anti-tank missiles and RPG-type threats |
Fuze Systems | ||
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 | ||
Space Launch System (Turkey) | Satellite launch | The Micro-Satellite Launching System (MSLS) |
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