The Turkish Navy has successfully completed the first underwater test-firing of an anti-ship cruise missile produced domestically.
Turkish Defence Industries Secretary Haluk Görgün announced that the Roketsan-developed missile was fired from a Preveze-class attack submarine, the TCG Preveze, in the Mediterranean Sea.
Specific details about the munition were not shared with the public, apart from video footage showing an encapsulated Atmaca missile loaded onto the submarine and launched.
“Turkish defense industry is moving forward for a fully independent future on land, air, and sea!” Görgün said in the announcement.
In late 2023, the TCG Preveze was also used to test launch the locally-produced AKYA heavyweight torpedo.
Mavi Vatan’ın çelik kılıcı ATMACA, artık denizlerin altından da hedefini vuracak!
Dünyada sayılı ülkenin sahip olduğu su altından Güdümlü Mermi Atış kabiliyetini, bugünkü ATMACA atışı ile doğrulamış olduk. Denizaltından ateşlenen ATMACA, başarıyla uçuşunu gerçekleştirdi.… pic.twitter.com/9MSXbQncU6
— Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün (@halukgorgun) March 12, 2025
The Atmaca
Turkish defense manufacturer Roketsan began developing the Atmaca (which means “hawk”) in 2009.
The all-weather, long-range, precision-strike cruise missile was meant to gradually replace the Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile as it is deployed on frigates and corvettes.
Designed to hit moving and stationary maritime targets and fixed ground-based ones, the Atmaca carries a 220-kilogram (485 pounds) high-explosive blast fragmentation warhead over a 250-kilometer (155 miles) range.
The missile is equipped with an inertial navigation system and global positioning system, in addition to a barometric and radar altimeter.
It comes in multiple variants: the submarine-launched Atmaca, the ship-launched version, and the ground-launched Kara surface-to-surface missile with an extended range.
Indonesia became the first Atmaca export customer after it ordered 45 anti-ship missiles, followed by Malaysia, which procured littoral mission ships equipped with the Turkish munitions.
