Roketsan Reaches Final Phase in UMTAS Project

20.08.2015 Europe
Roketsan Reaches Final Phase in UMTAS Project

Roketsan Reaches Final Phase in UMTAS Project

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Roketsan has reached the final phase in the UMTAS Project, the new-generation Long Range Antitank Missile with an imaging infrared (IIR) seeker.

Multiple targets were successfully hit during firing tests, on the 2nd and 3rd of July, 2015, at the firing range in Karapınar/Konya, also witnessed by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Roketsan. The UMTAS Project is in the design verification phase, where system qualification is expected to begin this year.

Roketsan was founded in 1988 by the resolution of the Defense Industries Executive Committee for the purpose of “possessing a leading institution in the country for designing, developing and manufacturing rockets and missiles” the first production project of which had been the manufacture of propulsion system of Stinger missiles within the frame of “Stinger European Joint Production Project” which was an international program.

Roketsan’s mission is to serve in the national defense with its rocket and missile systems and to contribute to the technological infrastructure of Turkey with its products.

 



 
 

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