Bozdoğan and Gökdoğan Air-Air Missiles Entering the Inventory

İsmail Demir, President of the Presidency of Defense Industries, met with television and newspaper representatives in Ankara to convey the 2021 evaluation and 2022 projects. Describing the targets for 2022, SSB President Demir announced that the first deliveries will be made in the domestic and national air-to-air missile project. Air-Air missile systems developed by TUBITAK SAGE within the scope of GÖKTUĞ Project will be included in the inventory. Within the scope of the Turkish Defense Industry 2021 Goals, it was stated that "Airborne tests of short and medium/long range BOZDOĞAN and GÖKDOĞAN air-to-air missiles developed for air superiority of our warplanes will be completed."

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Within the scope of the Göktuğ air-to-air missile project, which started in 2013, the GÖKDOĞAN - GÖ Missile with a long-range active radar seeker head and a short-range high-maneuverable, Infrared Imager Seeker (IIR) BOZDOĞAN - Gİ Air-Air missile is being developed.

Seekers developed within the scope of GÖKDOĞAN air-to-air missile project are also used in long-range air defense missiles. GÖKDOĞAN Air-Air missile, whose development work is planned to be completed in 2020, will be launched from F-16 aircraft and will increase the air dominance of the Turkish Air Force.

Regarding domestic air-to-air missiles, President Erdogan said, “The guided firing tests of BOZDOĞAN in-sight and GÖKDOĞAN beyond sight missiles, developed within the scope of the project we have been carrying out to produce our first domestic and national air-to-air missile, have also been successfully completed. Hopefully, we will take our BOZDOĞAN missile into the inventory as soon as possible. Thanks to this success, we have made significant progress in the work of our long-range air defense missile system, SİPER. " he had made statements.

Source: defenceturk