Turkiye said to test-fire secretly developed ballistic missile

Turkiye test-fired a locally made, short-range ballistic missile over the Black Sea on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, Report informs via Bloomberg.

A mobile platform was used to fire the missile from an airport near the port city of Rize at around 7 a.m. local time (GMT +3), said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because they aren’t authorized to comment. The projectile flew 561 kilometers and fell off the coast of the port of Sinop, they said.

The secretive missile project dubbed Tayfun, or Typhoon in Turkish, has been under way for several years, the people said without elaborating. The Defense Industry Presidency, which oversees the development of locally made weapons, refused to divulge any information about the project.