HAVELSAN

Havelsan

Type	Government-owned corporation
Industry	Defence, Software
Founded	1982
Headquarters	Ankara , Turkey
Products	Peace Eagle, Cn235 Flight Simulator, D-Class Seahawk Simulator, EHTES, Meltem
Revenue	208.2 million TL (2008)
Number of employees	1222 (for the year 2008)
Website	havelsan.com/en

HAVELSAN is a Turkish software and systems company having business presence in the defence and IT sectors. It is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey, with subsidiary companies and offices around Turkey and abroad. Havelsan is mostly active in the fields of C4ISR, naval combat systems, e-government applications, reconnaissance surveillance and intelligence systems, management information systems, simulation¹ and training systems, logistics support, homeland security systems and energy management systems.²³

Havelsan was established by the Turkish Air Force (TUAF) Foundation in 1982 as a Turkish company named Havelsan-Aydin to provide maintenance for the Turkish Air Force's high technology radars.

In 1985, Havelsan was separated from the foreign shareholders and incorporated as a national company with a share of 98% owned by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation.

In 1997, Havelsan added command control system (C4ISR), training and simulations system and management information systems to its functions. As the "Informatics and System House of Turkey" Havelsan has been designing and planning critical defense systems such as management information system, homeland security system, simulation and training system and C4ISR.

Although Havelsan has generally been involved in military software projects, it has also taken responsibilities on e-government projects and successfully implemented them.

Havelsan is one of the subcontractors of the Peace Eagle Project. Havelsan is mainly responsible for delivering the ground support segment which consists of crew training, mission planning and software maintenance functions. Havelsan worked on becoming a main subcontractor of Boeing for Italian and Korean AEW&C projects, but Boeing withdrew from this sub-contractorship in early 2009.⁴⁵ Havelsan decided to increase its production capacity by investing 143 million dollars in Ankara and Istanbul in 2025.⁶

At the Eurosatory defence exhibition, Havelsan signed a cooperation agreement with Euramec on simulation and training technologies. The partnership aims to jointly develop and integrate simulator systems, including support for Turkish Air Force training needs.⁷

Kal-Der, the Turkish Quality Association, published the Turkish Quality Map of 2008-2009. Introduced at the National Quality Congress held on November 12–14, 2007, Havelsan is presented as the first defence industry company on the Map.

High Election Council, Computer Supported Central Elections Registry System -SEÇSİS- which was developed by Havelsan, came first in its category services from State to Public in the 5th e-Turkey rewards and Congress Ceremony on 22 December 2007.

Havelsan keeps its leadership in the 'sectoral software' field, according to Turkey's First IT Companies results. Havelsan is listed in 4th rank for income among the ten IT companies in Ankara.

Havelsan is listed at number 225 of "First 500 Company" research done by İstanbul Commercial Chamber (ISO). In 2007, Havelsan was listed, as in 2006, included in the research of Fast Developing Companies in Turkey (Fast 50) by Deloitte for the latest five years and, in the same research, of Fast Developing Companies in Europe, Africa and Middle East (EMEA) regions in 2006.

Awarded with the prize for ”Commercial Success in New Products” in the competition ”TESİD 2006 Electronic and Information Technologies Innovation - Creativity Prizes”. In 2006, Land Registry and Cadaster Information System (TAKBİS) was selected as the ”most successful e-government project in Turkey” in the ”e-Tr Congress and Prize Ceremony, organized by Tusiad and Tubisad.

• Göksim, the simulator of TAI T625 Gökbey⁸
• HÜRJET 270, the simulator of Hürjet⁹

HAVELSAN has expanded its unmanned systems portfolio across air, land, and maritime domains as part of its Unmanned and Autonomous Systems ecosystem. These platforms are designed for integrated operations, network-centric warfare, and multi-domain interoperability.¹⁰

• BAHA, a sub-cloud autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for reconnaissance and surveillance missions in GPS-denied or contested environments.¹¹¹²

• BULUT, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed for reconnaissance, surveillance, and intelligence missions.¹³

• BOZBEY is a fixed-wing, Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) autonomous UAV. ¹⁴

• POYRAZ, is a lightweight autonomous quadcopter UAV (rotary-wing drone). ¹⁵

• BARKAN, an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) designed for reconnaissance, surveillance, and support operations.¹⁶

• BARKAN II, an upgraded UGV with improved autonomy, sensor fusion, and enhanced mission coordination capabilities.¹⁷

• BARKAN III, a next-generation autonomous combat support platform featuring advanced AI-driven mission execution and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) integration.¹⁸

• KAPGAN, a heavy-class unmanned ground vehicle designed for high payload logistics and battlefield support missions.¹⁹

• ÇAKA, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) designed for maritime reconnaissance, surveillance, and littoral operations.²⁰

• SANCAR, an autonomous unmanned surface vessel developed for naval reconnaissance, surveillance, and operational support in coastal and open-sea environments.²¹

• MAIN, an offline artificial intelligence-based secure virtual assistant platform designed for closed-loop corporate and defense environments.²²

ADVENT is a naval combat management system developed by HAVELSAN. It is designed for surface combatants, offshore patrol vessels, fast attack craft and airborne maritime platforms, providing integrated C4ISR capabilities in network-centric operations.²³

ADVENT is a distributed, modular combat management system that integrates sensors, weapons, communication systems and decision-support tools to create a shared real-time tactical picture across multiple naval platforms. The system emphasizes data exchange and cooperative engagement between surface ships, airborne assets and shore-based command centers.

The system was developed as part of Türkiye’s indigenous naval modernisation programme to replace legacy combat management systems with a network-centric architecture. It has been integrated into several Milgem-class corvettes of the Turkish Navy, including TCG Kınalıada, TCG Ufuk and TCG Beykoz.²⁴

ADVENT MARTI is a lightweight airborne variant designed for maritime patrol aircraft and other special-mission platforms. It focuses on real-time situational awareness and air-sea coordination.²⁵

It has been integrated into Turkish Coast Guard CASA CN-235 aircraft.

ADVENT AI is an upgraded version incorporating artificial intelligence for data fusion, threat evaluation, anomaly detection and decision support. HAVELSAN unveiled the system in 2026.²⁶

The variant is intended to improve performance in complex and contested environments, including electronic warfare and asymmetric threats.²⁷

ADVENT equips multiple Turkish Navy vessels.

In October 2025, HAVELSAN reported that the ADVENT Combat Management System and FLEETSTAR Ship Data Distribution System had successfully completed integration, sea trials and live-fire tests on the Indonesian Navy’s KRI Belati-622 fast attack craft and entered operational service with the Indonesian Navy.²⁸

HAVELSAN has expanded the ADVENT family into underwater applications. Related developments include submarine variants and broader C5ISR capabilities for multi-domain operations.²⁹

• Turkish Aerospace Industries
• ASELSAN
• ROKETSAN