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ANKA

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE
During the first stage of the ANKA Project, the aim
was to develop a national UAV System to meet
the requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces for
reconnaissance, surveillance, target, recognition
and detection.
The first phase of the project conducted by TUSAŞ
(TAI) was completed with the delivery of the required
prototypes of Medium Altitude Long Endurance
(MALE).
In the on-going phase of the project, within the
scope of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Development
Program, the objective is to undertake the serial
production of the unmanned aerial vehicles when
the infrastructure is completed.
In this phase of the ANKA project called the ANKA-S
Project, the serial production has commenced, and
in 2017, 6 UAVs and related ground systems, and in
2018, 4 UAVs and related ground systems will be
delivered.
The ANKA-S System is developed for day and night
reconnaissance, surveillance, fixed/mobile target
detection, detection, identification, tracking and
real-time image intelligence tasks also including
those under unfavorable weather conditions. The
ANKA-S System has a payload of 200 kg and an
altitude of 30,000 feet and is capable of 24 hours of
flight time.

BAYRAKTAR

ARMED UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE

The Bayraktar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project
is implemented by our Undersecretariat for the
airborne reconnaissance, surveillance and target
elimination requirements of the Turkish Armed
Forces. UAVs are produced by Baykar Makina.
The Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System,
developed in accordance with the concept of the
Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) class
UAV, is equipped with national and original fully
automatic flight control features, a three back-
up flight control system architecture, and unique
navigational and sensor fusion applications and is
one of the reconnaissance and surveillance vehicles
being developed at an advanced technological level.
The Bayraktar UAV System has a cruising speed of
70 knots with an operational flight altitude of 24.000
feet, 24 hours of flight time and a communication
range of 150 km and has a 12-m wing span, 650-
kg maximum take-off weight and a 55-kg payload
capacity.
The Bayraktar TB2 is used operationally by the
Turkish Armed Forces and is able to employ MAM
and MAM-L ammunitions and UMTAS missiles.

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