Roketsan

Roketsan (Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret A.Ş.) is a Turkish weapons 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 missiles such as Bora, Tayfun, Atmaca, Cirit, UMTAS and OMTAS. The company also produces subsystems for Stinger, Rapier 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.

History

Roketsan, was founded on 14 June 1988 by the decision of the Defense Industries Executive Committee for the purpose of “Establishing a leading institution in the country for designing, developing and manufacturing rockets and missiles”.

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 customers 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.

On April 7, 2026, the Lalahan Missile Integration Facility in Ankara and the Fuel Production Facility in Kırıkkale were inaugurated with the participation of President Erdoğan. It was announced that the total cost of the facilities exceeded 1 billion dollars and that the factories would provide employment for more than 3,000 people. It was stated that with the opening of these facilities, Türkiye's missile production capacity would increase fivefold.

Shareholders

Shareholder structure of Roketsan is:

• Turkish Armed Forces Foundation - 55%
• ASELSAN - 15%
• Makine Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu - 15%
• Vakıfbank - 10%
• Other - 5%

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

External links