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Turkey's Yıldırımhan ICBM debuts amid skepticism over its true reach

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Source: Financial Times
Turkey's Yıldırımhan ICBM debuts amid skepticism over its true reach
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Turkey unveiled the 18‑meter Yıldırımhan ICBM at a defence expo, touting a 6,000km range and a 3-ton warhead, but defence officials and Western analysts say the system is still in testing and its advertised capabilities—promoted in an AI-generated promo video—are likely overstated; the longest-range Turkish missile (Tayfun) has only reached about 600km in tests.

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