Uçaksan Founder Emre Balcı shared the test flight of the firm’s follow-up to the T20 kamikaze UAV, T20 Block 20, incorporating wide wings and canards.
Following the test of the baseline T20 kamikaze UAV with a range of 2000 km and 20 kg warhead weight, Uçaksan’s Founder Emre Balcı shared the test flight of a follow-up variant designated T20 Block 20.
T20 Block 20, compared to the delta-wing T20, adopts an extended wing layout with high aspect ratio (Contributing to reductions in induced drag) to improve cruise efficiency and canard wings to improve agility.
The specifications of T20 Block 20 are not known, but it is understood that the new layout is likely to provide gains in already long range and potentially payload.
Long-range kamikaze UAVs have emerged as low-cost options to support stand-off attack missions, which had been left to cruise missiles and ballistic missiles of considerable cost previously.
While not as fast or survivable as the other two, the easy production and deployment of long-range kamikaze UAVs have rapidly elevated them to a position where most countries with a military industry pursue development and production by proving themselves to be sustainable options to keep critical infrastructure under pressure and damage critical assets.
Author: Kaan Azman
Editor:Özgür Ekşi
