SANCAR AUSV Safeguards Blue Homeland
Prof. İsmail DEMİR, President of Defense Industries participated in the launching event of the SANCAR Armed Unmanned Surface Vehicle (AUSV), developed in cooperation with Yonca-Onuk Shipyard and HAVELSAN.
Turkish Defense Industry keeps on developing new products to enhance mission effectiveness of the security forces in the Blue Homeland defense. The launch of the Sancar AUSV, developed for the Naval Forces Command, was performed at the event attended by the President of Defense Industries Prof. İsmail DEMİR. At the ceremony held at Yonca-Onuk Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, President Demir was informed about the features and capabilities of the Sancar AUSV.
DEMİR delivered a speech at the ceremony and said, “We aim to become one of the leading countries in the world in the AUSV field as well by using the experience and knowhow we have gained in armed unmanned aerial vehicles. We have been conducting several activities on AUSVs, SANCAR AUSV is one of them. AUSVs are quite critical for us thanks to their capacity to operate in an integrated operational environment, thus we will become ready for the operational environment of the future. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to these efforts.”
Developed to perform unmanned reconnaissance and surveillance, surface warfare and mine countermeasure missions, the SANCAR AUSV will minimize the risks with its unmanned use feature in missions that could jeopardize human life and will enable several missions to be performed in a more cost-effective way with integrated payloads.
