Turkey’s Aselsan reports 75% rise in revenue for 2022

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s largest defense company saw a 75% increase in revenue in 2022 from the year prior, Aselsan announced Tuesday.

The state-controlled military electronics specialist is listed on the Istanbul stock exchange, and is the 49th largest defense company in the world, per the Defense News Top 100 list .

The company said its total sales that year reached 35.3 billion liras (U.S. $1.9 billion), and that its pre-tax depreciation and interest profit was 9.5 billion liras, a 77% rise from 2021.

Its net profit in 2022 rose by 70% to 11.9 billion liras.

In a statement, Aselsan said its export orders in 2022 were worth a total of $1 billion. The company added that it did business last year in three new export markets, although it declined to identify them for Defense News. It said the number of export customers has now reached 81.

The company said its procurement from local industry subcontractors last year amounted to 23.4 billion liras, which accounts for 70% of Aselsan’s annual procurement from all sources.

The Turkish firm also said that, during financial year 2022, it successfully “localized/nationalized” a total of 160 systems, meaning the business indigenously produced technology that the country was previously importing. Overall, the company boasts to have done so for a total of 670 systems.

Burak Ege Bekdil was the Turkey correspondent for Defense News.

土耳其安卡拉——土耳其最大的国防公司阿塞尔桑周二宣布，2022 年的收入比上一年增长了 75%。

这家国有控股的军用电子专家在伊斯坦布尔证券交易所上市，根据《防务新闻》百强榜单，它是全球第 49 大国防公司。

该公司表示，当年的总销售额达到 353 亿里拉（19 亿美元），税前折旧和利息利润为 95 亿里拉，比 2021 年增长了 77%。

该公司2022年的净利润增长了70%，达到119亿里拉。

阿塞尔桑公司在一份声明中表示，其2022年的出口订单总额为10亿美元。该公司补充说，去年在三个新的出口市场开展了业务，但拒绝向《防务新闻》透露具体市场名称。该公司表示，其出口客户数量目前已达81家。

该公司表示，去年从当地行业分包商采购的金额达 234 亿里拉，占 Aselsan 所有采购来源年度采购额的 70%。

这家土耳其公司还表示，在2022财年，它成功实现了160套系统的“本地化/国产化”，这意味着该公司自主研发了此前依赖进口的技术。该公司声称，迄今为止，已完成670套系统的本地化/国产化。

布拉克·埃格·贝克迪尔是《防务新闻》的土耳其记者。