GOKBERK C-UAS Testing

May 1, 2025

Aselsan
Ankara, Turkey
www.aselsan.com

Turkish defense company Aselsan completed testing of its mobile laser counter unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) platform GÖKBERK against first-person view (FPV) drones in March. Previously proven effective against rotary- and fixed-wing kamikaze drones, GÖKBERK has now demonstrated its capabilities for detecting, autonomously tracking, and eliminating FPV drones across multiple test scenarios.

GÖKBERK is being developed by Aselsan as a component of Turkey’s next generation air defense weapon system that enables kinetic and non-kinetic defeat of threats such as miniature UAVs and IEDs. Developed with contributions from key industry partners including TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, all major sub-components of GÖKBERK have been designed and produced domestically in Turkey.

GÖKBERK brings together ASELSAN’s İHTAR platform and the laser weapon on a platform with 6 × 6 mobile deployment capability instead of a distributed architecture.

GÖKBERK uses an indigenous laser source with high beam quality for hard kill destruction of targets, while also providing soft kill destruction with an electronic jammer developed by Aselsan. The system can perform very precise target tracking with various electro-optical systems on the guidance unit. With artificial intelligence (AI)-supported algorithms, the system’s tracking and identification capabilities are maximized, which enables GÖKBERK to destroy the threats in the target set in a very short time.

GÖKBERK will play a critical role in the defense of fixed facilities such as military bases, airports, power plants and oil refineries, and will have a wide range of applications thanks to its mobile deployment capability. With the data obtained from the firing tests and trials of GÖKBERK conducted under different weather conditions, improvement and development work on the system continues.

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