The Hava SOJ program envisages 4 plane, primarily based on the Bombardier International 6000 plane, with Aselsan growing the payload and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) integrating it.
The primary of the Turkish Air Pressure’s (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri – THK/TurAF) Stand-Off Jammer (SOJ) plane was photographed Mar. 1, 2026, in flight on the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) facility in Ankara. Two of the plane, primarily based on the Bombardier International 6000 enterprise jet, had additionally been tracked stay on Feb. 20, 2026, as ‘THS42’ and ‘THS41’ throughout take a look at flights.
It’s not clear if the picture, captured by photographer ‘ahmet8630580179’ pertains to those flights or a brand new trial flight, a part of what might be the testing and certification marketing campaign. The picture was broadly shared by a number of Turkish accounts and reported by ‘TurDef’.
This system is a collaboration between plane producer TAI and protection electronics, radar and avionics main Aselsan.
Concurrently carried out land and air platform primarily based radar and jammer tasks
➡️Air SOJ➡️MIT Intelligence Plane➡️IHA-SOJ (ASOJ-234U)➡️Kara-SOJ 1 (Koral-1)➡️Kara-SOJ 2 (Koral-2)➡️AEW-C (ALP-200A)➡️IHA AEW-C (Baykar-S band early warning radar) pic.twitter.com/rv1sqF5Lt6
— TR_tech (@T_Nblty) March 1, 2026
Ulusavunma’s stories from Could and September 2025 have known as the undertaking the Hava SOJ (Stand-Off Jammer), which envisages 4 platforms to be delivered to the THK beginning in 2026. The time period ‘Hava’ in Turkish, Central Asian Turkic languages, Urdu and Hindi means ‘air’.
Different Turkish protection commentators, like Oğuzhan Uygun and ‘Avionot’, have additionally known as the undertaking because the ASOJ 23-A, which might be the designation post-conversion for the plane.
The present picture and an AI-enhanced image present a big canoe-like faring, probably internet hosting an array, on the underside, and lengthy dorsal dome-shaped antennae together with antenna blades operating throughout the backbone and the underbelly.
Plane conversion
As talked about earlier, Turkish stories have stated the ASOJ 23-A program envisages 4 of the International 6000-based techniques to be delivered. These, which ‘Avioniot’ instructed The Aviationist have been acquired between 2019 and 2020, already commenced conversion at TAI.
There are two recognized airframes which have been formally photographed. Avionot shared with us an official picture of one of many plane, when the Secretariat of the Defence Industries (SSB) introduced on Mar. 15, 2019, it had reached the TAI facility for conversion.
SSB tarafından elektronik harp özel görev uçakları geliştirilmesi amacıyla başlatılan HAVA SOJ Projesi kapsamında hayata geçirilecek sistemlerin entegre edileceği iki uçak Türkiye’ye geldi. pic.twitter.com/w8LY4myo0z
— SSB (@SavunmaSanayii) March 15, 2019
This was serial 9855, seen previous to conversion and set up of Aselsan’s EW/SIGINT payloads. The opposite airframe bore the serial 9854 and registration C-GBYG. Which one of many two took flight isn’t recognized, however the tail numbers might be anticipated to have been modified to native Turkish registrations submit conversion.
SSB tarafından elektronik harp özel görev uçakları geliştirilmesi amacıyla başlatılan HAVA SOJ Projesi kapsamında hayata geçirilecek sistemlerin entegre edileceği iki uçak Türkiye’ye geldi. pic.twitter.com/w8LY4myo0z
— SSB (@SavunmaSanayii) March 15, 2019
The conversion work for then-designated Hava SOJ might even have been part of a $18.9 million Digital Warfare System Mission contract signed between the SSB and Aselsan which Savunmasanayist reported in December 2020. “ASELSAN, which has developed quite a few digital warfare techniques that may be deployed on varied platforms to this point, is assembly the Turkish Armed Forces’ wants on this discipline with nationwide assets. Moreover, it’s anticipated that ASELSAN-produced techniques will even be used within the HAVASOJ plane, that are presently beneath manufacturing for the Turkish Air Pressure Command,” the report stated.
The report additionally included a picture of Aselsan’s truck-mounted KORAL EW system and a rendition of the Hava SOJ plane. As per earlier stories, TAI was chargeable for “Group-A structural modification designs” on the Bombardier International 6000, which included inner and exterior alterations just like the Electrical Energy Distribution System (EPDS), the Cooling System, detailed element manufacturing, modification, meeting and system integration.
Radar Terminatörü ASOJ 23-A’dan ilk yüklü uçuş
Tüm elektronik sistemleri ASELSAN tarafından geliştirilen ve TUSAŞ tarafından da uçağa özel montaj işlemleri yapılan, “uzun menzili karıştırıcı” ASOJ 23-A’ların ilki tüm yüklü uçuş sırasında görüntülendi.
Yüzde yüz yerli olarak… pic.twitter.com/Epn3vcjfQG
— Oğuzhan Uygun (@ogzhn_uyg) March 2, 2026
The corporate would additionally take a look at the results of exterior modifications on flight management, stall prevention and eventually ship the 4 SOJ plane with their Army Supplementary Kind Certificates (STC) to the Air Pressure Command. Savunmasanayist reported in June 2021 that TAI partnered with Turkish Cabin Interiors (TCI) to fabricate, set up and certify the “galley, toilet, closet, crewrest, sidewalls, and different inside cabin parts” on the International 6000.
Then, Savunmasanayist moreover reported in November 2021 that the SOJ plane can be geared up with Leonardo’s Miysis Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM).
🇹🇷 Milli Savunma Bakanı Yaşar Güler:
“Hava SOJ çok önemli. TUSAŞ ve Aselsan yoğun faaliyetler yürütüyor. 2025 ve 2026’da 4 uçağımız hazır olacak.” pic.twitter.com/JBnKXxBxpa
— Turan Oguz (@TyrannosurusRex) Could 3, 2024
Payload techniques and capabilities
Aselsan’s web site doesn’t point out both the EW or SIGINT-related payloads on the ASOJ 23-A/Hava SOJ. Nevertheless, the corporate has a big portfolio of ground-based EW and podded EW know-how just like the ANTIDOT-series, which is used on the Synthetic Intelligence (AI)-enabled model of the Bayraktar TB-2, the TB2T-AI.
The SOJ’s description by Turkish commentators and protection journalists matches the function of a traditional airborne electromagnetic spectrum fight platform, broadly sharing the identical mission profile because the EA-37B Compass Name, the French Archange, or the Australian MC-55A Peregrine.
The HAVA SOJ, which might be one of many Turkish Air Pressure’s most strategic plane, has not but been proven to the media by officers, however they’re flying. Will we lastly get a glimpse of this beast? We’re ready… pic.twitter.com/0op79IZqoj
— TR_tech (@T_Nblty) November 27, 2025
In response to Turkish journalist Yusuf Akbaba, the HAVA SOJ is a, “Distant Digital Listening/Digital Assault system built-in into an air platform, for the aim of listening to, jamming, suppressing, and/or deceiving every kind of enemy radar and communication capabilities with out coming into the menace zone, in offensive air operations to be carried out towards menace nations.”
Turkish accounts have additionally been stressing upon an SSB and Ministry of Nationwide Defence push to have indigenous EW functionality and never rely on international techniques, given the delicate nature of the know-how. We now have seen this need additionally in Japan, which had introduced the event of its personal airborne EW platform and whose C-2-based EC-2 Stand-Off Jammer not too long ago broke cowl.
HAVA-SOJ : TEK BAŞINA SAVAŞ KAZANDIRAN UÇAK
Ona “Uçan Koral” da diyebiliriz. Dün 2 adet HAVA-SOJ uçağı Ankara semalarındaydı. Türk Hava Kuvvetlerine teslim edilmeden önceki son testleri için.
NEDİR HAVA-SOJ?
Keramet uçakta değil, uçağın içindeki Elektronik Harp… pic.twitter.com/PGNAbiS5S6
— Metehan (@mtkhanX) February 20, 2026
These plane monitor, detect, intercept and jam radio communications and radar emissions from each floor and air platforms, performing in live performance with different particular mission plane like Airborne Early Warning and Management (AEW&C) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), via Digital Help Measures (ESM) and Digital Assault (EA) payloads, throughout the broader EW and Digital Intelligence (ELINT) gamut. Some plane also can supply communications relay help to disparate air, floor and naval property.
