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Türkiye's Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) and missile maker Roketsan have signed a contract to supply the domestically developed Cakir cruise missile to the Turkish Land Forces Command, marking a key step toward the missile's entry into service.
SSB head Haluk Gorgun and Roketsan General Manager Murat Ikinci signed the deal at a ceremony at the secretariat.
The contract value and the number of missiles were not disclosed.
Cakir gives the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) a deterrent, multi-role cruise missile with domestic components from its seeker to its turbojet engine, and it can also be launched from the Kara Atmaca weapon system, expanding Ankara's deep-strike options.
Gorgun said the project gives Türkiye a deterrent and multi-capable cruise missile capability, built on Roketsan’s engineering, secretariat support and a broad industrial ecosystem.
He said many critical components, from the seeker head to the turbojet engine, were developed domestically.
About 200 companies contributed to the project under Roketsan as prime contractor, and the Land Forces Command supported its qualification, Gorgun said.
Ikinci said the contract was a source of great pride and that Roketsan would work to deliver Cakir to the Turkish Armed Forces as a force multiplier.
Cakir has surface-to-surface and air-to-surface configurations and can strike both land and sea targets. It will also be fired from the Kara Atmaca weapon system entering the Land Forces' inventory, allowing flexible, precise deep-strike capabilities within a shared system architecture.
According to Roketsan, Cakir has a range of more than 150 kilometers, a 70-kilogram warhead and flies at high subsonic speeds of Mach 0.75 to 0.85. It is powered by the domestically developed KTJ-1750 turbojet engine from Kale Arge.
The missile can be launched from fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, armed drones, unmanned surface vessels, tactical land vehicles and naval platforms, with up to four missiles carried per platform.
It can conduct swarm missions with inter-communicating missiles, uses radar-absorbing material, flies at sea-skimming altitudes and relies on anti-jam satellite navigation to continue under heavy electronic jamming.
Its guidance options include imaging infrared, radio-frequency, and hybrid seekers, and a two-way datalink lets operators update targets, retarget, or abort missions in flight as the Cakir cruise missile moves toward service with the Turkish army.
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