ASELSAN Trials Integrated EW and ISR Systems on TB2 Drone

Turkish defence electronics giant ASELSAN has pulled off a rare feat: showing three separate airborne electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems working together, live, on a single Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle. The demonstration took place in Konya province, Turkiye, and drew more than 15 international defence delegations to watch the trial unfold in real time.

Rather than testing each system in isolation, ASELSAN built a single operational scenario. Electronic support, electronic attack and synthetic aperture radar capabilities were chained together to detect, locate, engage and identify a target under realistic field conditions. That integration, more than any single component, was the point of the exercise.

Three Systems, One Airborne Platform

The trial centred on three ASELSAN-developed pods, all flown from the same TB2:

• ANTIDOT 2EA 200 – an Electronic Countermeasure (ECM) pod
• ANTIDOT 2ES 100 – an Electronic Support Measures (ESM) pod
• FULMAR 200 – an AESA Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) pod

Mounting all three on one UAV platform is itself a statement about how ASELSAN sees the future of electronic warfare: not as standalone boxes, but as a coordinated sensor-to-shooter chain flown on a single, relatively low-cost airframe.

Stage One: Detect, Locate, Attack

In the first phase of the demonstration, the ESM pod detected a search radar emitter mid-flight and calculated its geolocation. That targeting data was then handed off to the ECM pod, which carried out a precision electronic attack against the emitter.

Midway through the engagement, the attack was deliberately paused, allowing the target radar to reacquire and lock onto the UAV. Once locked, the ECM system responded with DRFM-based countermeasure techniques, successfully disrupting the tracking radar’s performance as well. That sequence, attack, pause, re-lock, counter, was designed to show the system holding up under a more adversarial, back-and-forth exchange rather than a single clean pass.

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Stage Two: Real-Time ISR Imaging

The second stage shifted from electronic attack to imaging. The ESM pod again detected and located the emitter, feeding real-time situational awareness into the mission, while the FULMAR 200 SAR pod produced high-resolution synthetic aperture radar imagery of the target area.

The resulting imagery supported detailed ground mapping, target identification and geolocation accurate to within metres, underscoring the system’s suitability for day-and-night, all-weather ISR missions where optical sensors alone would fall short.

An End-to-End Operational Cycle

Taken together, the two stages formed a complete operational loop: detection and localization, electronic attack and high-resolution imaging, all flown from a single UAV. ASELSAN notes that in a full combat-proven version of this concept, the sequence would extend further still, with the ASELFLIR 500 designating the target for air defense systems, followed by destruction using laser-guided munitions.

That last step positions the demonstrated capabilities within ASELSAN’s broader Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) and Destruction of Enemy Air Defense (DEAD) concept, delivered through a single UAV platform rather than a mix of separate manned and unmanned assets.

Why This Demonstration Matters

For operators facing increasingly contested and radar-dense environments, the appeal of this setup is straightforward: fewer platforms doing more of the work, and doing it as an integrated sequence rather than a set of disconnected capabilities. A TB2 already offers a comparatively affordable, attritable airframe. Layering electronic support, electronic attack and SAR imaging onto that same platform extends its relevance well beyond traditional strike and surveillance roles.

The presence of 15+ international delegations at the trial also signals where ASELSAN is aiming this pitch: export customers evaluating not just individual pods, but a demonstrated, working system-of-systems approach to electronic warfare and ISR.

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