The fifth prototype of Baykar’s KIZILELMA unmanned fighter, PT-5, took off for the aerodynamic system identification test using afterburner for the flight test.
KIZILELMA’s fifth prototype, with slight external changes, used its afterburner in its first announced test. The new prototype has its external pitot tube at the nose swapped out, likely for an internal one. As KIZILELMA is being developed with low observability in mind, it is important to have any instrument concealed for RCS reduction.
Previously, the third prototype performed captive munition flight tests with ASELSAN’s TOLUN SDB and ROKETSAN’s TEBER-82 guided bomb. Additionally, the prototype retracted its landing gears during a flight test.
Baykar exhibited the serial production version of KIZILELMA with KARAT 100 IRST and TOYGUN 100 EOTS during IDEF25. In addition to high-end optical sensors, the unmanned fighter will receive the MURAD AESA radar (100-A initially, 200-A variant to be integrated later) in accordance with the focus on air-to-air capabilities.
Author: Kaan Azman
Editor:Özgür Ekşi
