Turkish army gets more Tayfun ballistic missiles

Türkiye’s Ministry of National Defence has delivered a new batch of Roketsan Tayfun Block 2 ballistic missiles to the Turkish Land Forces Command, adding to a missile force that began entering service only five months ago.

The delivery was reported on Oct. 22, 2026, and in line with previous handovers, the ministry kept the number of missiles classified. The new batch is at least the third known delivery this year: the ministry announced on May 20, 2026, that Tayfun Block 2 missiles had been accepted into the Land Forces inventory for the first time, and a second batch followed on June 25.

Tayfun, Turkish for “typhoon,” is the longest-range ballistic missile Türkiye has developed on its own. Roketsan, the state-owned missile maker, describes the Block 2 as having a range of more than 500 km (310 miles) and designed to strike high-value targets deep behind enemy lines, including air defense systems, command and control centers, aircraft hangars and other critical military facilities.

The missile is about 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) long and 610 mm (24 inches) in diameter, with a launch weight of 2,300 kg (5,070 pounds). It is fired from a wheeled transporter-erector-launcher, a truck that carries, raises and launches the missile and holds two rounds, which allows crews to move quickly between firing positions.

Roketsan says the Tayfun Block 2 lands within 10 meters (33 feet) of its target, measured as circular error probable, the radius within which half of the missiles fired are expected to land. It uses coordinate-based guidance, meaning it flies to a fixed point programmed before launch, and the company says it is highly resistant to GPS jamming and can operate day or night in poor weather. The missile carries a pre-formed fragmentation warhead, which breaks into a pattern of fragments on detonation.

Türkiye first test-fired Tayfun in October 2022 from Rize-Artvin Airport on the Black Sea coast, when the missile flew 561 km (349 miles) in 456 seconds before striking a target area off Sinop. That distance was roughly twice the 280 km (174-mile) range of Roketsan’s earlier Bora missile, previously the longest-range ballistic missile in Turkish service. Further test firings followed in May 2023 and in later years as the program moved toward serial production.

Roketsan has continued to expand the family alongside the Block 2 deliveries. In July 2025, the company unveiled the much larger Tayfun Block 4 at the IDEF defense fair in Istanbul, a missile about 10 meters (33 feet) long and weighing roughly 7,200 kg (15,900 pounds), which Roketsan presents as a hypersonic ballistic missile system. In July 2026, Roketsan released footage of a Tayfun Block 3 striking an unmanned boat at sea, which the company said was the first time a Tayfun had been used against a naval target and the first use of a seeker on the missile.

With three batches delivered since May, the Tayfun Block 2 is now steadily building up inside the Turkish Land Forces, while the Block 3 and Block 4 versions continue through development and testing at Roketsan.