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HAVELSAN

Logo: Havelsan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons³

Turkish Software Company

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, simulation and training systems, logistics support, homeland security systems and energy management systems.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1982Founded¹

Industryelectronics¹
HeadquartersAnkara¹
Websitewww.havelsan.com.tr

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The story

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. Havelsan decided to increase its production capacity by investing 143 million dollars in Ankara and Istanbul in 2025.

From Wikipedia’s article on Havelsan, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Products and brands

2026 additions

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.

Air systems

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

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

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

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Poyraz, is a lightweight autonomous quadcopter UAV (rotary-wing drone).

Land systems

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

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

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

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

Maritime systems

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

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

AI systems

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

ADVENT-AI

In May 2026, HAVELSAN introduced ADVENT-AI, an artificial intelligence-supported decision support layer developed for the ADVENT Combat Management System family during SAHA EXPO 2026 in Istanbul.

The system is designed to analyze large volumes of operational data in real time, supporting naval operators through anomaly detection, tactical picture generation, object classification under electronic warfare conditions, intelligent monitoring, navigation assistance, and AI-supported naval gunfire effectiveness prediction.

According to HAVELSAN, ADVENT-AI was developed as a modular capability integrated into the distributed architecture of the ADVENT CMS and can be deployed to existing platforms through software updates.