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ASELSAN profile

By Jonathan Tauzerus · reviewed against primary sources · updated November 3, 2026.

ASELSAN is a Turkish defense electronics company listed on Borsa Istanbul that disclosed a USD 442.5 million export contract for radar, counter-UAV and command-and-control systems on 23 October 2026.

What ASELSAN does

ASELSAN develops and sells defense electronics, including radar, counter-UAV and command-and-control systems; on 23 October 2026 it disclosed a USD 442.5 million export contract with an international customer. It is a listed company, so material contracts reach the market through public disclosures to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP); the 23 October 2026 filing is the primary record of this export contract.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

Radar systems
Counter-UAV systems
Command and control systems

This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.

ASELSAN drone lineup

The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.

No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.

Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.

Recent contracts & awards

A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for ASELSAN, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.

ContractOct 23, 2026$442.5M
ASELSAN discloses USD 442.5 million export contract for radar, counter-UAV and command-and-control systems
ASELSAN told the Public Disclosure Platform on 23 October 2026 that it signed a contract valued at USD 442.5 million with an international customer, covering radar, counter-UAV and command-and-control systems.
The filing names no buyer or country and gives no delivery period; it says only that the contract is expected to have a positive impact on company revenues. Treat the figure as a contract value reported by the company, not delivered revenue.
ASELSAN — KAP disclosure, 23 October 2026

Is ASELSAN going public?

ASELSAN trades on Borsa Istanbul under the ticker ASELS. Contract disclosures appear on the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP); this page reports them as disclosed and is not investment advice.

Where ASELSAN sits in the value chain

ASELSAN is a defense contractor whose unmanned work sits inside a wider defense portfolio, so drone headlines are only one input into results and can be offset — in both directions — by unrelated segments.

Its disclosed activity spans counter-UAS, aerial drones. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand.

Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.

What to watch

The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.

Whether ASELSAN or the buyer names the international customer, the country or the delivery schedule, none of which the KAP filing gives.
Whether later KAP filings split the USD 442.5 million into radar, counter-UAV and command-and-control portions.
How this contract is reflected in later quarterly results.

How to research ASELSAN

Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.

Research question	Where the answer lives	What to look for
How much of this is really drones?	Segment tables in the annual filing	Whether unmanned systems are reported as their own segment or buried inside a larger one.
Is the revenue repeatable?	Revenue-recognition policy and backlog discussion	Recurring sustainment, services, or subscription language versus one-time hardware sales.
Is a win real money?	Official DoD contract announcements	Contract type, awarding command, and whether the amount announced is obligated or a ceiling.
Can the balance sheet fund the plan?	Liquidity discussion and share-count disclosure	Dilution history and cash runway relative to the manufacturing scale-up being promised.

For the contract itself, read the ASELSAN disclosure on KAP dated 23 October 2026; it states the value, the systems and 'International Client' and nothing more.
The KAP filing is the primary source for the contract; it names no buyer.

One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.

ASELSAN FAQ

What does ASELSAN do?

Is ASELSAN publicly traded?

ASELSAN trades as ASELS on Borsa Istanbul. Listing status is not a quality signal, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell it.

What should investors watch with ASELSAN?

Whether ASELSAN or the buyer names the international customer, the country or the delivery schedule, none of which the KAP filing gives.

Where can I research ASELSAN directly?

Go to the primary sources: ASELSAN — KAP disclosure, 23 October 2026. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.