Turkey’s Roketsan to Develop New-Gen Cruise Missile with 150Km Range

Turkey’s Roketsan announced the development of a new generation cruise missile Çakır with a range of over 150 km on Thursday.

The missile is still in the design phase, and its first tests are scheduled for later this year, with platform integration to take place in 2023. Radar absorbing material has been used on its frame.1

It will be test-fired from the Akinci combat drone, being manufactured by Baykar company that also built the Bayraktar TB2.

With a range of over 150 km, the cruise missile will be launchable from fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, assault drones, tactical land vehicles and naval platforms.

It will be equipped with the KTJ1750 turbo-jet engine developed by Kale Arge. It will feature unique warhead and impact point selection systems. The missile will be able to engage targets with high precision regardless of weather conditions thanks to its advanced mid- and terminal phase guidance systems.

It will also boast network-based datalink facilitates and human-in-the-loop capabilities for updating, attacking/re-attacking, or aborting targets mid-flight.

Also capable of carrying multiple payloads, the missile will be able to coordinate and intercommunicate with other ordinances as a swarm.