IDEF 2025: Roketsan presents Tayfun Block 4 hypersonic missile

Roketsan presented the Tayfun Block 4 hypersonic missile at IDEF 2025 held in Istanbul from 22 to 27 July 2025. (Janes/Nicholas Fiorenza)

Roketsan presented the Tayfun Block 4 hypersonic missile at the International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) 2025 held in Istanbul from 22 to 27 July. The missile is 10 m long, has a diameter of 938 mm, weighs 7,200 kg, and carries a high-explosive blast fragmentation warhead.

A Roketsan representative declined to give its range when asked by Janes on 25 July, saying only that previous blocks are ballistic. The latter have a range greater than 280 km, length of 6.5 km, and diameter of 610 mm. Weighing 2,300 kg, they are armed with a preshaped fragmentation warhead, with a circular error probable below 10 m, which according to Roketsan reduces collateral damage.

Tayfun has an anti-jamming capability, with resistance to electronic warfare and GPS jamming. Mounted on an 8×8 transporter erector launcher vehicle, Tayfun can be placed quickly into firing position.

Tayfun missiles, including Block 4, use go-onto-location-in-space (GOLIS) guidance. Roketsan lists their targets as air-defence missile systems, lightly armoured and unarmoured vehicles, central command-and-control centres, military aircraft hangars, critical military facilities, and strategic targets.

For more information on Tayfun, please see Türkiye tests Tayfun ballistic missile, potentially extending its range .