Turkish homegrown electro-optical sight system begins mission

Turkish defense firm Asisguard’s domestic electro-optical reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting system Aggoz Gimbal 275 has entered the inventory of the country’s security forces.

The Ankara-based designer and maker of electro-optical vision and unmanned drone systems — among others — completed the field tests of the Aggoz Gimbal 275 and the sight system entered service.

Asisguard’s long-term research and development efforts to enhance the operational capabilities of Türkiye’s security forces paid off, as the Aggoz Gimbal 275 will serve as a domestically made “eye” in the field.

The Aggoz Gimbal 275 will be used as the sight system for air, land, and sea platforms, with its advanced reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting system.

The sight system can perform long-term reconnaissance and surveillance via its high-resolution daytime camera and can capture uninterruptedly at night and in bad weather conditions with its cooled thermal camera, while it features a laser rangefinder, automatic target tracking, and image stabilization capabilities.

Baris Duzgun, general manager and CEO at Asisguard, told Anadolu that the firm has developed critical, homegrown solutions and achieved tremendous exports in some of these key products, and that the firm is working on new solutions.

“Surveillance and visibility are tremendously important in today’s combat environment, and there’s a need for high-performance electro-optical reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting systems to boost the effectiveness of offensive operations and to detect targets from great distances as early and as accurately as possible,” Duzgun said.

“Aggoz will provide security forces with critical advantages in border security, counterterrorism efforts, and reconnaissance and surveillance missions, while addressing the needs of today and also being futureproof — we will continue to enhance the performance of our systems and develop new platforms,” he added.