ROKETSAN ÇAKIR Mini Cruise Missile

ÇAKIR is a new generation lightweight cruise missile being developed by ROKETSAN for Turkish Navy, Land Forces, Air Force and Turkish Intelligence Agency. First platform Integration is scheduled for 2023.

ÇAKIR can be launched from fixed and rotary-wing aircraft (Fighter jets, light combat aircraft, cargo planes, maritime patrol aircraft…), Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (AKINCI, AKSUNGUR, KIZILELMA…), Armed USVs, tactical wheeled vehicles and naval platforms, and offers operational versatility against land and surface targets. With a range of 150+ kilometers, ÇAKIR’s targets include surface targets, land and surface targets close to shore, strategic land targets, field targets and, caves.

The most prominent features of ÇAKIR are; its minimalist, networked and modular design approach, which allows the platform to carry multiple payloads up to four missiles, and its ability to perform missions with inter-communicating missiles. ÇAKIR’s modularity in terms of seekers (IIR, RF, IIR+RF Dual Mode Seeker, Swarm Sensor) and warhead types (High Explosive Fragmentation, Shaped Charge, Thermobaric) leads to better optimization for different mission profiles.

Equipped with the domestic KTJ-1750 turbojet engine developed by Kale Ar-Ge and the agility brought by its design, ÇAKIR easily performs tasks involving 3D waypoints defined during mission planning. With a different warhead options and hit point selection feature, ÇAKIR offers a high destructive force against enemy targets in a small package.

ÇAKIR owes the ability to engage targets with high precision under all weather conditions to its advanced mid-phase and terminal phase guidance systems. Network-based datalink facilitates Man-in-the-Loop capability for target update, attack/re-attack for the in-flight target of opportunity and mission abort.

ÇAKIR offers high survivability thanks to radar absorbing material utilized on the frame. ÇAKIR’s sea-skimming and terrain masking capabilities in combination with radar-absorbing structure minimizes the suspectiblity to enemy defense systems. Thanks to Anti-Jam GNSS and altimeter-supported inertial navigation system, ÇAKIR is also protected against electronic warfare threats.