Asked whether any foreign components were used, he replied:
This radar was developed entirely inside Türkiye — from the most minute components like electronic chips all the way to the complete system.
Türkiye bought the S-400 in 2017, got kicked out of the F-35 program and hit with US sanctions.
SİPER is the domestic answer.
In Al Jazeera's defense documentary, an ASELSAN engineer says Türkiye’s domestically built ALP-300G radar — part of the SİPER long-range air defense system — outperforms Russia’s S-400 air defence system’s search radar "in several aspects."
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