Sarsılmaz introduced the new generation defense systems and integrated production capabilities developed with its domestic engineering power to international visitors within the scope of SAHA EXPO 2026. Sarsılmaz, which has approximately 150 years of production and engineering experience; It strongly demonstrated its position as a technology company that offers holistic solutions to the defense industry with weapons, ammunition, robotic platforms, remote-controlled systems, medium-caliber solutions and precision production capabilities at the fair.
Sarsılmaz, which has the largest arms production center in Europe with its integrated production facility built on an area of 120 thousand square meters in Düzce, attracted attention on a global scale with its exports to more than 80 countries and its high-precision production infrastructure. Thanks to the ecosystem it has created with its group companies, the company shared its integrated solutions that respond to the changing needs of the modern battlefield to SAHA EXPO visitors.
Akalın: “We demonstrated our integrated defense ecosystem power” Sarsılmaz Deputy General Manager and BEST Defense Board Member Murat Akalın emphasized that success in the modern battlefield, within the scope of SAHA EXPO 2026, is no longer through single products but integrated systems. “Today’s defense needs have passed the point where they can only be met with a single, well-designed product. At SAHA EXPO 2026, we demonstrated our holistic structure in which platforms, sensors, software, ammunition and weapon systems can work together.
Together with Sarsılmaz, BEST Defence, LA2 Dynamics, TR Mekatronik, BPS and ÜNİMETAL, we exhibited not only our products but also our vision of a defense ecosystem that produces end-to-end solutions.” Akalın stated that this approach takes Sarsılmaz beyond its classical manufacturer identity and that the ability to bring together different systems within the same architecture was among the most popular topics at the fair.
Latif Aral Aliş: “We are carrying Turkish engineering further on a global scale” Sarsılmaz Chairman of the Board of Directors Latif Aral Aliş stated that they strongly reflected the company’s transformation, which combines its deep-rooted history with today’s defense technologies, at SAHA EXPO 2026: “Our journey, which started in Elazığ in 1880, has turned into an engineering and technology power competing on a global scale today.
At SAHA EXPO 2026, we had the opportunity to share our current progress, product diversity and integrated solution capability with international stakeholders.” Aliş emphasized that Sarsılmaz is no longer just a manufacturer, but a technology company that directs the defense ecosystem, and stated that its growth targets in international markets were further strengthened with the collaborations established at the fair.
Emphasizing that Sarsılmaz has never positioned itself only as a weapons manufacturer, Aliş continued: “As Sarsılmaz, we have never seen ourselves only as a manufacturer. We are positioned as a technology company that takes an active role in the technological transformation of Turkey’s defense industry, develops engineering-oriented solutions and directs the defense ecosystem. At the point we have reached today, we offer an integrated structure that can meet the different needs of an army.” Reminding that Sarsılmaz exports to more than 80 countries, Aliş evaluated the company’s global goals with the following words: “We constantly update the knowledge we have according to changing threat perceptions and user needs.
While expanding our product range, we are also expanding our export ability, user trust and international influence. As a company with defense in its focus and technology in its genes, our goal is clear: To carry Turkish engineering to a stronger position on a global scale and to further our country’s influence in the defense industry in the international arena.” The end-to-end integrated solution approach stood out at the fair at the Sarsılmaz stand at SAHA EXPO 2026; The “end-to-end integrated solution” approach, extending from production to final system architecture, was conveyed to the visitors.
Among the prominent systems at the fair: SAR9 SP Special gun, SAR Drone Killer, SAR 556 MT machine gun, SARBOT’s new version, BEST Defense concealable UKSS TR Mechatronics 20 mm 6-barreled gun. While the new version of SARBOT, developed by LA2 Dynamics, was introduced in the international arena for the first time, TR Mekatronik’s 20 mm gun system, which has a localization rate of over 100,000, also attracted great attention.
While BEST Defense’s concealable UKSS solution attracted attention with its low visibility and fast reaction ability, the SAR Drone Killer system developed against unmanned aerial vehicles was among the prominent solutions of the fair. With this holistic structure exhibited together with its group companies at SAHA EXPO 2026, Sarsılmaz once again demonstrated the engineering, production and integration capabilities of the Turkish defense industry on an international scale.
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