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Turkish defense company Roketsan's exports exceeded $750 million in 2025, achieving growth of more than 50%, General Manager Murat Ikinci announced.
"In 2025, Roketsan's exports surpassed $750 million and achieved growth of over 50%. Our goal now is to make this growth permanent," Ikinci said at the second Defense Industry Talent Management Summit organized by the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) Defense Industry Academy.
Ikinci emphasized that building a vision that benefits the entire ecosystem is essential to sustaining growth targets.
"To make these growth targets permanent, you need to establish a vision where the entire ecosystem can benefit, along with your own company. A manager profile that focuses only on their own institution or country will not succeed. The successful profile can integrate into ecosystems that are open to and integrated with the world," he added.
"There is no place in the future for a manager profile focused only on growing their own institution at a micro level," Ikinci noted.
"Roketsan is experiencing rapid growth of over 50% in both exports and domestic production," Ikinci stated. The fundamental reason is the capability to produce products competitively on time and deliver them to users.
"We cannot do this alone as Roketsan. We have become responsible for an ecosystem. For Roketsan to produce and deliver on time, our business partners and supply chain must support us, and we must support their growth with the same vision," he said.
Ikinci highlighted that Roketsan now conducts joint production with multiple countries and has opened to international markets.
"Our stakeholders are no longer just our family within our own supply chain. We have international stakeholders. If you can make these international stakeholders part of your story, you will have created an ecosystem that can closely follow developments in different markets," he added.
"A new leadership model has emerged where managers must develop and support all stakeholders in human resources, technical and managerial terms," he said.
"If you do not ensure your stakeholders share in your success, you have no chance of achieving sustainable success. We expect Roketsan managers to prioritize the interests of the ecosystem, not just the interests of their own company," Ikinci noted.
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TUSAS Engine Industries (TEI) General Manager Mahmut Faruk Aksit announced the company secured sales contracts worth nearly $3 billion at the end of last year.
"At the end of last year, we made sales contracts worth close to $3 billion. These happen because the customer is confident we can deliver that product in high quantities at the desired quality within a few years," Aksit said.
Aksit emphasized strategic material selection in domestic engine production to ensure supply security.
"We specifically decided not to select materials with a single-source producer in the world. In design and material selection, you need to make very strategic choices. Our engine ended up 3-5 kilograms (6.6-11.0 pounds) heavier than competitor engines, but we assembled it with materials we can source from multiple places in the world. Because of this, we can produce when the time comes," he added.
Aselsan General Manager Ahmet Akyol said mass production and exports are the company's top priorities, with 286,000 products delivered to end users.
"A total of 286,000 products from Aselsan have been delivered to customers and end users. This is an important mass production capacity achieved by a single company," Akyol said.
Akyol detailed deliveries including 100,000 urban security cameras, 70,000 smart munitions, more than 70,000 military radios, over 5,000 electro-optics, more than 2,000 guided munitions, nearly 1,000 electronic warfare systems, close to 500 radars and nearly 100 Steel Dome components.
The company achieved a 40% capacity increase at its facilities. In the first nine months of the year, domestic contracts increased 50%, while export contracts rose 171%.
"The question for the defense industry is no longer 'Can you do it?' but 'When and how much will you deliver?' Mass production and exports are our biggest agenda. Today's spirit of producing more, producing faster and exporting is the mission our state and nation have given us, a result of geopolitical developments in the world," Akyol said.
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