Roketsan Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S. is a major Turkish

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s manufacturer and defense contractor based in

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. 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%),

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(15%), Vakıflar Bankası (10%), HAVELSAN (4.5%). Roketsan is best known for its wide range of guided and unguided rockets as well as guided

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s such as Bora, Atmaca, Cirit, UMTAS and OMTAS. The company also produces subsystems for

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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

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' most valuable defense industry companies list. In 2020, it was ranked 91st. The company is one of the organizers of the Teknofest Aerospace and Technology Festival.

History

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 Roketsan Research Center, officially Roketsan Satellite Launch, Space Systems and Advanced Technologies Research Center ( tr, Roketsan Uydu Fırlatma, Uzay Sistemleri ve İleri Teknolojiler Araştırma Merkezi) is a research center of the Turkish de ...

was established. On 29 June 2021, the governments of Turkey and

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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

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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.

Products

Facilities

* Munition Disposal Facility (MAAT) * Air Bag Project “Booster Bag” used in airbag systems by ARC Automotive Company /U.S.A.produced by ROKETSAN. * Ammunition Surveillance Facility (MIGYEM) * Space Systems and Advanced Technologies Research Center

References

External links

ROKETSAN official website

ROKETSAN Products & Services

Turkish Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM)
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