SÄ°PER Long-Range Air-Defence System

Reading Time: 4 minutes Turkey’s SİPER emerges as a layered, long-range air-defence solution with growing export interest Summary The SİPER is Turkey’s national long-range air-defence system jointly developed by Aselsan, Roketsan, and TÜBİTAK SAGE. It is designed to detect, track and engage aircraft, UAVs, cruise missiles and, in later blocks, short- and medium-range ballistic missiles and hypersonic threats.Deliveries began in 2024, and the system forms a key pillar in Turkey’s indigenous layered air-defence architecture while attracting growing attention from international operators, including Bangladesh. System Overview SİPER is a modular, battery-based surface-to-air system structured around a fleet-level command node, long-range search radar, battery fire-control radars, and a family of solid-fuel interceptor missiles (Blocks 1–6). Each battery can operate semi-autonomously while contributing to a national or coalition air picture through advanced networking. Key design goals: Long-range detection and engagement capability Simultaneous, multi-target engagement Distributed and survivable architecture NATO-compatible command and control (Link-16,