{"id":45697,"date":"2026-08-31T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/45697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:10:08","slug":"5-turkish-defense-firms-enter-global-top-100-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/45697\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Turkish defense firms enter global top 100 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Turkish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/defense\/turkiyes-largest-defense-companies-history-products-reach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defense companies,<\/a> led by electronics giant Aselsan, found their places in the prestigious Defense News Top 100 list based on their 2025 defense sales.<\/p>\n<p>Defense giant Aseslan maintained its top position among Turkish companies by climbing from 43rd to 40th place at this year&#8217;s list. Its defense revenue increased around 26% to $4.46 billion in 2025 from $3.54 billion in 2024, Defense News announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>ARCA made a strong entry into the list for the first time in 53rd place after its defense revenue rose 4.6 times to $3 billion in 2025 from $653.2 million in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Missile producer Roketsan also achieved a major leap by rising from 71st to 64th position with its defense revenue growing nearly 18% to $2.37 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) ranked 48th with $3.65 billion in defense revenue, while Machinery and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKE) was placed 81st with $1.42 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The combined defense revenue of the five Turkish companies on the list reached $14.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin retained top spot on the list with $72.1 billion in defense revenue, followed by RTX with $46 billion and General Dynamics with $39.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Northrop Grumman ranked fourth with $37 billion, while U.K. defense firm BAE Systems took fifth place with $36 billion as major global defense companies increased their revenues.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788214208_753_JN9LXf.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    The Daily Sabah Newsletter\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    Keep up to date with what\u2019s happening in Turkey,<br \/>\n                    it\u2019s region and the world.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    SIGN ME UP\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    You can unsubscribe at any time. By signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.<br \/>\n                    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five Turkish defense companies, led by electronics giant Aselsan, found their places in the prestigious Defense News Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[160,19551,454,70,453],"class_list":["post-45697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-turkiye","tag-defense","tag-defense-news-top-100","tag-defense-sector","tag-turkish","tag-turkish-defense-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}