When firearms are used, they leave distinctive characteristic marks on the fired bullet and cartridge cases. By comparing these marks on two different bullets or cartridge cases, it can be determined whether they were fired from the same gun or not, and relationships between events can be established.

BALİSTİKA^® is a system that obtains 3D data of bullet and cartridge cases, stores this data in a database with accompanying metadata, and can store information about events, individuals, and firearms. It generates features by extracting attribute data from 3D data, compare them, and provide the probability of being a match. The system is able to distribute the workload of the comparison process among the high computation power cluster, provide computer-based comparison of bullet and cartridge cases and exchange data with other BALİSTİKA^® labs in different regions.