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Turkey touts propellant breakthrough for Yıldırımhan long-range ballistic missile

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ISTANBUL — The Turkish Ministry of National Defense (MND) unveiled details about the Yıldırımhan long-range ballistic missile during the SAHA Expo 2026 defense exhibition here this week.“We have elevated our work to a more advanced level through the technology base we established two years ago within our Ministry of National Defense R&D Center,” Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said during a press conference on Thursday.“Our Yıldırımhan Long…

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Turkish defense: At the SAHA Expo defense exhibition, Turkey unveiled a new ballistic missile capable of traveling so far that all potential adversaries and rivals…

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Turkey presented this week Yıldırımhan, an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of travelling 6,000 kilometres, carrying an explosive load of 3,000 kilograms and having a speed of up to 25 times that of sound. According to Financial Times, the video generated with AI included and sequences with rocket hitting nuclear installations and other targets that seemed to be in the US. America would be far beyond the official range of missile actio…

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Defense News broke the news in United States on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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