Positioning itself as a significant player in the defense export market, Turkey revealed two formidable non-nuclear bombs at the 17th International Defence Industry Fair held in Istanbul earlier this week.
The first, known as GAZAP (Wrath), is a conventional aircraft bomb with a warhead weighing 970 kilograms.
This thermobaric weapon, often called a vacuum bomb, combines oxygen with fuel to produce a high-temperature explosion.
A secondary charge triggers following the initial explosion, significantly enhancing the weapon's destructive power compared to other non-nuclear bombs of similar size and extending its blast radius to a kilometre.
State-linked media have described it as the NATO country's "most powerful" air-launched conventional weapon.
The second bomb, referred to as the Hayalet (Ghost), is a bunker-buster that can penetrate up to seven meters of reinforced concrete.
Each can be deployed from a US F-16 fighter jet and weighs almost a tonne.
In June, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his desire to enhance the nation's deterrence capabilities to prevent any country from considering an attack.
During the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel, he declared plans to increase the nation’s production of medium- and long-range missiles.
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