MKE TOLGA Wows 24-Nation Delegation in Live-Fire Air Defence Demo

MKE’s TOLGA Short-Range Air Defence (SHORAD) System put on a live-fire demonstration for an international audience of 64 attendees military attachés, official delegates, and civilian guests representing 24 nations from NATO and the Gulf region, including the United States, Lithuania, Egypt, Qatar, and Romania.

The exercise ran through seven distinct combat scenarios covering loitering munitions, drone swarms, and fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. TOLGA intercepted every target across all scenarios, posting a flawless 100% neutralization rate and giving visiting delegations a firsthand look at its multi-tier defence architecture in action.

A Complete Air Defence Ecosystem

TOLGA is engineered to counter loitering munitions, drones, cruise missiles, and other asymmetric airborne threats through a single integrated platform. Built around MKE’s “Effective Simple Affordable” design principle, the system’s modular structure allows it to scale up or down depending on mission needs.

Its architecture combines several MKE-built components: 12.7mm and 20mm weapon stations (both mobile and fixed), anti-drone rounds in various calibers, the GÖKBÖRÜ AESA radar, an acoustic detection array, electro-optical sensors, a jamming-based electronic countermeasure suite, and a centralized command-and-control system.

Layered Defence: From Jamming to Fragmentation

TOLGA’s first response layer relies on detection radar, electro-optical tracking, and electronic jamming work together to disable threats at distances up to 10 kilometers using soft-kill methods. If jamming alone doesn’t stop the threat, the system automatically escalates to hard-kill engagement.

At that stage, MKE’s 12.7mm, 20mm, and 35mm weapons fire specially engineered programmable anti-drone rounds. These are timed to detonate at a calculated distance from the target, scattering a dense field of metal fragments to boost hit probability.

Range varies by caliber: the 35mm round reaches out to 3,000 meters, the 20mm to 1,000 meters, and the 12.7mm to 300 meters.

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Adding another layer, the Dual PMT-76 machine gun system mounted on the MAP DUAL mobile vehicle platform bolsters TOLGA’s anti-air firepower. MKE has also introduced 7.62mm fragmenting anti-drone rounds that let regular infantry knock down low-flying drones using their issued rifles, with no extra hardware needed.

Looking ahead, MKE plans to fold a laser weapon system and the ENFAL-17 missile into TOLGA, adding new engagement tools against next-generation aerial threats.

One Command Center, Full Control

TOLGA’s command-and-control unit offered in mobile and fixed setups lets operators run every part of the system from a single hub. It supports remote control alongside manual, semi-autonomous, and fully autonomous modes, letting crews adapt quickly to whatever the mission demands.

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