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Turkey launches its own “Iron Dome”, it will be called “Steel Dome”

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Turkey announced today that it is building its own high-tech layered defense system, called Steel Dome (Çelik Kubbe in Turkish), to compete with Israel's Iron Dome and offer an alternative to the growing air defense market in Middle East.

The Steel Dome “security umbrella” is a network-centric air defense system equipped with artificial intelligence functions, which is expected to protect the entire Turkish airspace from “very low altitude and very high altitude” and “at very short range and long range,” according to a statement released by the government's Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB). So, like Iron Dome, it presents itself as a multi-layered, multi-weapon system.

The "steel dome", rather than "iron" like the Israeli one, was developed by the Turkish companies Aselsan, Roketsan, SAGE and Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKE) and coordinated by the Presidency of Defense Industries, according to a statement by Aselsan CEO Ahmet Akyol.

“ The steel dome, which we can call a “system of systems,” will eliminate all types of threats in our airspace at all altitudes and distances. It will add strength to our heroic Armed Forces,” Akyol wrote on X on Wednesday.

Israel's famous Iron Dome is actually just one of three layers of air defense; the others are the Arrow high-altitude defense system and the medium-range David's Sling. Turkish defense expert Can Kasapoglu told Breaking Defense that the Steel Dome is a layered air and missile defense architecture augmented by electronic warfare systems. therefore it is structurally different from the Iron Dome and, above all, it integrates all the air defenses.

“This is a holistic defensive architecture with all the sensors and the best shooters,” said Kasapoglu, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, “not a single weapons system.”

Kasapoglu added that the development of this layered missile defense comes “in light of the increase in mixed attack packages composed of drones and missiles of all types.” The Russian-Ukrainian war was a source of incubation for such CONOPS (Concept of Operations) attacks.”

A graphical representation of the system, published by Akyol on HAKiM Air control. The graph also suggests that the system will be connected to the satellite through the locally developed T-link.

The system is also expected to counter drones with the iHTAR jammer, GOHBERK laser, and ALKA jammer and laser. Aselsan did not respond to a request for further comment at the time of publication. However, this marks a certain evolution compared to many traditional anti-aircraft systems.

This announcement comes as the Middle East suffers from conflicts between Iran and its allies on one side and Israel on the other, during which missile defense has proven to be an indispensable element in protecting civilians and national assets. Last April 13, for example, Iran launched a barrage of 300 missiles and drones towards Israel, but most of them were intercepted by US, Israeli and Jordanian air defenses, with little damage.

While Iron Dome has been operational for decades and has added counter-drone capabilities in recent conflicts, Steel Dome is just an operational concept that has yet to be tested, verified and operationalized. But if these phases are completed successfully, it could attract the interest of many Arab and Gulf countries seeking to protect their airspace from various threats.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-turchia-lancia-il-proprio-iron-dome-che-si-chiamera-steel-dome/ on Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:40:39 +0000.