Speaking the 8th Marine Systems Seminar held today, Turkish Naval Technical Commander General Admiral Ahmet Çakır gave information about the maritime platforms and shared a new info regarding anti-ship missile ATMACA. Cakir explained that ATMACA anti-ship missile was tested for the first time. ATMACA, developed by ROKETSAN indigenously and designed to replace the Harpoon missiles currently used by the Turkish Naval Forces, was a project kept secret until now. The Naval Technical Commander added that the missile will be subjected to tests onboard ships in the coming periods.

ATMACA, which is said to have a range of over 200 kilometres, has a weight of 800 kilograms. On the other hand, 691-kilogram Harpoon has a range of 140 kilometres.