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Home» News»Turkiye’s Yonca Onuk Shipyard launched SANCAR armed USV
Turkiye's Yonca Onuk Shipyard launched SANCAR armed USV
Yonca Onuk JV's SANCAR armed USV before launching (SSB photo)

Turkiye’s Yonca Onuk Shipyard launched SANCAR armed USV

Turkiye's Yonca Onuk JV launched its new armed unmanned surface vessel SANCAR during a ceremony in Istanbul on June 07, 2022.

Tayfun Ozberk 08 Jun 2022

The head of the Presidency Turkish of Defence Industries (SSB), Prof. Ismail Demir, was the chief guest of the ceremony and delivered a speech about the importance of such projects.

“We want to become one of the leading countries in the world in the field of unmanned ground vehicles (USV) by bringing our experience and achievements in armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). We have many studies on armed USVs; SANCAR AUSV is one of them. It is critical for us to have AUSVs working in an integrated operational environment to prepare for the operational environment of the future.”


Ismail Demir, Head of SSB

Mavi Vatan savunmasında güvenlik güçlerimize yeni ürünler geliştiriyoruz.

Yonca-Onuk Tersanesi ve @HAVELSANResmi işbirliğinde geliştirilen #SANCAR Silahlı İnsansız Deniz Aracı’nın denize indirme faaliyetini gerçekleştirdik. Emeği geçen herkesi tebrik ediyorum. Hayırlı olsun. pic.twitter.com/YlgwXkBaFF

— Ismail Demir (@IsmailDemirSSB) June 7, 2022

In a press release, SSB highlights SANCAR’s multifunctional mission capabilities to accomplish missions in a less risky and more cost-effective manner.

“The armed USV Sancar, designed to perform unmanned reconnaissance, surveillance, surface combat, and mine countermeasures missions, will minimize this risk with the concept of unmanned use in missions dangerous to humans and allow many tasks to be performed more cost-effectively with the useful cargo.”


SSB press release

SANCAR was developed by Yonca Onuk and Havelsan Partnership. It will feature the HAVELSAN Network Enabled Data Integrated Combat Management System, ADVENT. This is a new generation command and control system designed to meet the needs of a force-oriented, network-centric concept of operations rather than a single ship.

Turkiye's Yonca Onuk Shipyard launched SANCAR armed USV
Ismail Demir aboard SANCAR USV (SSB photo)

SANCAR is the third USV launched by Turkish defence contractors, following Ares Shipyard-Meteksan’s armed USV ULAQ and Dearsan’s SALVO. Turkey’s Sefine Shipyard is working on the Constellation-class USV, which is also expected to be launched soon.

Specifications of SANCAR

  • Length: 12.7 meters
  • Displacement: 9 tons
  • Max Speed: 40 knots
  • Range: More than 400 nautical miles
  • Seaworthiness: Sea State 4
  • Endurance: 40 hours
  • Weapon payload: 12.7 mm remote weapon station (RWS), 2×2 UMTAS or L-UMTAS missiles
  • Sensors: Navigational radar, EO sensors and collision avoidance system on a telescopic mast dubbed MILMAST
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Posted by : Tayfun Ozberk
Tayfun Ozberk is a former naval officer who is expert in Above Water Warfare especially in Littoral Waters. He has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science. After serving the Turkish Navy for 16 years, he started writing articles for several media. Tayfun also offers analysis services on global naval strategies. He's based in Mersin, Turkey.

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