Two AKINCI UCAVs with ASELSAN’s EW Pods Join EHDEN Exercise
A pair of AKINCI UCAVs, one carrying ASELSAN’s ANTIDOT 2-U/ES support pod and another carrying the ANTIDOT 2-U/EA attack pod, joined the EHDEN exercise.
Akıncı B News
Air
E/W
Unmanned Systems
Unmanned Systems
Turkish Gendarmerie Forces Receive Three Akıncı B UCAVs
Turkish Gendarmerie announced that the acceptance of three Akıncı B UCAVs as one system was completed in Baykar’s training facility located in Tekirdağ, Çorlu.
Unmanned Systems
AKINCI Attack UAV B Completed its Endurance Test Flight
Baykar’s Akıncı Attack UAV B has performed an endurance flight with its Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW) which is approximately 1.5 tonnes.
Air
Unmanned Systems
Akıncı B Broke Turkish UAV’s Altitude Record
Bayraktar AKINCI B broke an altitude record during the test flight conducted today. AKINCI broke climbed to an altitude of 40,170 feet.
Unmanned Systems
Engine and Transmission
Bayraktar: MIUS to fly in 2023
Baykar Chief of Technology (CoT) Selçuk Bayraktar met with students at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University and talked about recent works carried out at Baykar.
Unmanned Systems
BAYRAKTAR AKINCI B Conducted its Maiden Flight
Bayraktar AKINCI B model, which has a total of 1500 HP, 2 x 750 HP, has completed its maiden test.
Global Defence Trend Brief
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- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
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