SOM (missile)

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SOM Cruise Missile
Bayraktar MIUS

The SOM (

ROKETSAN has been given the role of manufacturing and marketing the missile for export.[9]

Description

The SOM stand-off cruise missile is a family of

F-35 Lightning II.[11] It is intended to achieve high accuracy in striking military targets like command and control facilities, SAM sites, parked aircraft and surface ships.[12]

Development

Tests

According to the TUBITAK-SAGE officials, the initial demonstration flights of the prototypes were completed successfully. The missile made its first guided flight on 9 August 2011 over the Black Sea. Covering more than 100 nautical miles using GPS/INS guidance, the missile successfully hit its target with high accuracy. It was planned to assess the design aspects of the missile by conducting about 30 test flights. The delivery of a first batch of missiles to the Turkish Air Force would take place by the end of 2011, following more complicated live firing tests planned for the rest of the year.[8][10][11]

In 2018 SOM successfully hit its target from a 300 km distance.[13]

Range

While initially the range of the missile was announced to be 100 nmi, debates arose in local press around the missile's real range after Prime Minister

Recep Tayyip Erdogan unexpectedly set objectives for the development of a missile with a range of 2,500 km (1,300 nmi) at the plenary session of the High Science and Technology Council on 28 December 2011.[14] Shortly after, head of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
(TÜBİTAK) Yücel Altınbaşak informed that they set a task to develop the missile to 2,500 km (1,300 nmi) within 2 years. "The SOM missile is currently tested for 300 km (160 nmi) range and successfully achieved 10 m (33 ft) precision goal, demonstrating around 5 m (16 ft) accuracy in live fires. We are planning to start 500 km (270 nmi) range tests this year.

Production

On 26 October 2018, Turkey's defence industry authority announced that the missile entered serial production phase with Roketsan.[15]

Variants

TUBITAK-SAGE developed the missile in several configurations, with different warheads and guidance/communication packages:

SOM-C1, C2 and J variants will feature a data-link[5] for man-in-the-loop update of a waypoint and terminal stage of the missile.[citation needed]

Foreign partnerships

F-35 Lightning II

On 24 October 2014 Roketsan and Lockheed Martin entered into a teaming agreement whereby the parties would modify, produce and market jointly a new variant of the SOM missile, dubbed SOM-J, for use in the internal carriages of the F-35.[16][17][18][19][20] The SOM was one of two cruise missiles to be integrated with the F-35, the other being the Joint Strike Missile developed by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway and Raytheon.[21]

As of 2019, the status of further integration has been put in doubt following Turkey's expulsion from the F-35 program as a result of its purchase of the Russian S-400 air-defense system.[22][23]

Users

  •  
    F-4E 2020.[1] Also planned to be used on the Bayraktar Akıncı UCAV. It is estimated that so far, a total of 495+ Stand-Off Missile (SOM) ALCMs have been ordered under two separate contracts (80+415)[24]
  •  
    Azerbaijani Air Force has bought SOM missiles from the Turkish company of Roketsan.[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Pocock, Chris. "Turkey's Own Cruise Missile Makes First Flight". Aviation International News online. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Undersecretariat for Defence Industries Shared KTJ 3200 Engine's Video". C4 Defence News Online. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  3. ^ "'Bizim Patriot' üretime hazır". Hurriyet. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Roketsan Introducing Precision Missile". Military Technology Magazine. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Mitzer, Stijn (13 January 2022). "Deadly Advanced: A Complete Overview Of Turkish Designed Air-Launched Munitions". Oryx Blog.
  6. ^ TÜBİTAK SAGE Stand-off Missile (product page)
  7. ^ "TÜBITAK-SAGE Press Release" (PDF). sage.tubitak.gov.tr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  8. ^ a b c Turkey reveals stand-off missile bunker buster.[dead link] TRDefence. Retrieved 6 June 2015
  9. ^ (in English) David Donald UAE is first export success for CIRIT .[dead link] Jane's. Retrieved 20 February 2015
  10. ^ a b "Yerli seyir füzesi, 180 kilometreden hedefini vuracak". Hurriyet (in Turkish). 4 June 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  11. ^ a b c Turkey's Stand-Off Missile is revealed.[dead link] Janes's DSEi2011 Exhibition News. 14 September 2011
  12. ^ "DSEi: Turkish cruise missile design breaks cover". Flight Global. 14 September 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  13. ^ Roketsan. "Roketsan - SOM-J Stand-Off Missile". Roketsan. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  14. ^ (in Turkish) Bülent Aydemir, Türk füzesi: Hedef menzil 2500 km. HT Gazete. 29 December 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2012
  15. ^ "SOM mühimmatı için seri üretim imzası" [Signing ceremony for the serial production of SOM stand-off missile] (PDF) (Press release) (in Turkish). Ankara, Turkey: Directorate for Defence Industries of the Republic of Turkey. 26 October 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  16. ^ "Lockheed Martin Teams with Roketsan of Turkey on New Standoff Missile for the F-35". Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  17. ^ "Lockheed Martin announces Roketsan teaming on new F-35 standoff missile". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  18. ^ "Roketsan, Lockheed partner new F-35 air-to-surface standoff missile". 23 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  19. ^ Tamir Eshel (24 October 2014). "Turkey, US to modify the SOM cruise missile for use with F-35". Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  20. ^ "The Aviationist » Photo shows F-35 SOM-J Air-Launched Cruise Missile separation tests in wind tunnel". The Aviationist. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
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  22. ^ Mehta, Aaron (17 July 2019). "Turkey officially kicked out of F-35 program, costing US half a billion dollars". Defense News. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  23. ^ "US-Turkish Cruise Missile SOM-J May be a Victim of F-35 No-sale Fallout". Overt Defense. 16 August 2019. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  24. ^ @defencehublive (21 August 2021). "Also, it is estimated that so far,…" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2023 – via Twitter.
  25. ^ "Azerbaijan has bought SOM missile from Turkey". Archived from the original on 26 June 2018.
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