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Poland Chooses Türkiye’s ASELSAN in $410M Pact for Electronic Warfare and Counter-Drone Shielding.
Türkiye’s defense firm ASELSAN has signed a $410 million electronic warfare and counter-drone export contract with Poland. The agreement underscores Europe’s growing urgency to field jamming and sensing systems as drones become a central threat to military forces and civilian infrastructure.
On 19 December 2025, Poland finalized a $410 million export agreement with ASELSAN for advanced electronic warfare (EW) systems, marking a significant step in its ongoing defense modernization drive, as reported by Turkish News Agency TRT. The deal underscores Poland’s growing investment in electronic reconnaissance, jamming, and counter-drone capabilities, reflecting a broader shift toward spectrum dominance and resilience against hybrid threats. Presented by the Ministry of National Defence alongside several complementary contracts, the purchase forms part of an integrated air, land, maritime, and cyber defense network. Beyond national priorities, the agreement highlights how the electromagnetic spectrum is emerging as a key operational domain in NATO’s evolving strategic and procurement planning.
Aselsan has developed a full range of counter-drone systems, covering detection, identification, tracking, and neutralisation of unmanned aerial threats across multiple operational environments (Picture Source: Aselsan)
ASELSAN disclosed through a formal notification to Türkiye’s Public Disclosure Platform that it has concluded a direct export agreement valued at $410 million for the supply of electronic warfare systems, emphasizing that the signing ceremony received extensive coverage in Polish media. In parallel, the President of the Presidency of Defence Industries, Haluk Görgün, described the agreement as a major electronic warfare program in Europe with a value exceeding $400 million and noted that another Turkish defense company was expected to announce an even larger contract in the subsequent week.
From Warsaw’s perspective, the Polish MoD placed the contract inside a three-part package signed in Warsaw in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Deputy Minister Paweł Bejda. The ministry stated that the ASELSAN agreement concerns delivery of a Zautomatyzowany System Rozpoznawczo Zakłócający, presented as an automated reconnaissance-and-jamming capability tied to counter-drone missions, including radio-wave jamming intended to enable drones to be brought down. The minister described this as a first step toward a larger counter-drone air defence effort under the SAN programme, with negotiations said to be at the final stage with a consortium selected to work with the Armament Agency.
Operationally, the same Polish announcement frames electronic warfare as an enabling layer designed to connect detection, decision-making, and response across multiple domains. The MoD said the first agreement in the package, signed with Saab, covers acquisition of an electronic reconnaissance system and linked it to existing Polish ISR efforts, including reconnaissance aircraft and the Delfin radio-electronic reconnaissance ship programme, noting that at least one Delfin vessel has already been launched. In practical terms, pairing reconnaissance with an automated jamming capability reflects a procurement logic aimed at compressing the timeline between identifying threats in the spectrum and applying non-kinetic effects against them, particularly in counter-UAS scenarios where reaction time is often decisive.
The contract value also matters in the context of the broader package. At $410 million, the ASELSAN agreement places electronic warfare among the higher-value modernization lines, while Poland’s MoD also highlighted readiness investments through a third contract for six Leopard 2 PLM1 tank simulator sets supplied by Autocomp Management, described as worth around 100 million złoty, alongside the minister’s note that Poland operates more than 250 Leopard tanks. The package shows Warsaw allocating resources not only to new sensing and jamming capabilities, but also to the training throughput needed to sustain a large armored fleet, indicating a parallel focus on immediate operational protection and force-generation capacity.
By formally tying a $410 million electronic warfare export contract to a Polish procurement package that explicitly emphasizes electronic reconnaissance, jamming, and counter-drone missions, the announcements point to a clear direction of travel: spectrum awareness and electronic effects are being positioned as essential components of national air defence and wider joint operations. With Warsaw describing the ASELSAN system as a precursor to the SAN counter-drone programme and Ankara framing the signature as part of a wider European-facing momentum, the agreement is likely to be watched closely as an indicator of how NATO members are translating battlefield lessons into procurement priorities.