Weapons & Technologies

ANKARA – Turkey has launched a $1.5 billion expansion centered on Aselsan’s new Oğulbey Technology Base, an integrated campus officials describe as the largest single defense industry investment in the country and Europe’s biggest air-defense complex. The project is tied directly to Steel Dome, Ankara’s multi-layer air and missile defense architecture, and is planned to more than double Aselsan’s production capacity once the campus ramps.

The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon, an RTX business, a $1.7 billion contract modification to produce the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, the radar chosen to replace the Patriot system’s legacy sensor. 

The U.S. Navy will expand the number of Tomahawk cruise missiles configured for anti-ship missions with a new tranche of Block V upgrades to field the Maritime Strike Tomahawk seeker. Defense officials confirm the requirement covers from 35 to 96 missiles and the move will add more anti-ship capacity to the fleet as broader Block V recertification continues across the inventory.

The U.S. Navy and Raytheon, an RTX business, have completed the first live maritime test of the AN/SPY-6(V)4 radar at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Hawaii. The event produced real world data on air and surface target tracks and confirmed that the (V)4 configuration meets key performance goals outside the lab. The series took place over open water with varied target sets and environmental conditions, including sea clutter and multi-target presentations that stress discrimination logic.