Turkey has signed the first contract for the supply of Bayraktar Akinci heavy attack drones abroad

Turkish Heavy Drones Bayraktar Akinci are being exported, the developer Baykar Makina has signed the first contract for the supply of drones abroad. This was stated by the general director of the company Haluk Bayraktar.

At the moment, little is known about the contract, or rather, almost nothing is known. According to the company, this is the first contract concluded for the supply of Bayraktar Akinci abroad and that deliveries will begin in 2023. That's all, no other parameters of the signed contract are reported, and the company does not disclose the country that ordered the strike drones.

The CEO of Baykar Makina, Haluk Bayraktar, refused to explain anything about the new contract, only stating the increased demand for Turkish drones that has arisen recently. According to him, the BayraktarTB2 UAV turned out to be in demand and has already been adopted by the armies of several countries.

The strike-reconnaissance UAV Akıncı belongs to the class of "heavy" drones. The wingspan of Bayraktar Akinci is 20 meters, the length of the device is 12,2 meters, and the height is 4,1 meters. The maximum take-off weight declared by the manufacturer is 6000 kg. The maximum payload weight is 1500 kg. The declared operating altitude is 30 feet (approximately 9150 meters), the service ceiling of the device is 40 feet (approximately 000 meters), being in the air is 12 hours. The drone can fly in a fully automatic mode, land and take off independently. Maximum speed - 200 km / h, cruising - 24 km / h.

The drone is equipped with an AFAR radar, six artificial intelligence computers, a guidance system and six hardpoints. The drone is capable of using both conventional and guided weapons.

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[Zoldat_A]

At the moment, little is known about the contract, or rather, almost nothing is known. According to the company, this is the first contract concluded for the supply of Bayraktar Akinci abroad and that deliveries will begin in 2023.

Are the Turks embarrassed to say that they are going to drive them to Ukraine? The skakuas don't have enough money - Big White Brother will add. Or "ask" Turkey in such a way that they cannot refuse. For America, such "requests" are not the first time ...

[Asad]

You slander the Turks when they want, and they can send a brother.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: ASAD

You slander the Turks when they want, and they can send a brother.

Anything can happen if there is no exact information.
The West accuses us of being unpredictable in foreign policy. It was they who looked badly at Turkey there ...

[Tatyana]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Are the Turks embarrassed to say that they are going to drive them to Ukraine?

I also think so - it was to Ukraine that they were going to drive them!
Moreover, Ukraine itself will supply engines to them. Such an agreement has already been discussed in 2021.

[mitroha]

Turkish heavy drones Bayraktar Akinci are exported, the developer Baykar Makina has signed the first contract for the supply of drones abroad. This was stated by the general director of the company Haluk Bayraktar.

Relatives of Erdogan have a green light in everything. And although the matchmaker died in 2021, the heirs picked up the case.
All as always in the east. The Sultan and his family

[Thrifty]

Soldier A-100 pounds that they will be sent to Azerbaijan in order to further take away the remnants of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia. Moreover, unlike a non-state, Azerbaijan is solvent, and the Turks need a currency, oh how they need it, taking into account their state of the economy ...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Thrifty

Soldier A-100 pounds that they will be sent to Azerbaijan in order to further take away the remnants of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia. Moreover, unlike a non-state, Azerbaijan is solvent, and the Turks need a currency, oh how they need it, taking into account their state of the economy ...

Let's wait - they themselves will tell you what and where.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Thrifty

Soldier A-100 pounds that they will be sent to Azerbaijan

Wherever they send it, the car is serious. You can’t get it from MANPADS ... A minimum of TOR is needed, but rather a BUK.

[private person]

The skakuas don't have enough money - Big White Brother will add.

But this is a big doubt. So that the Americans give their loot to kaklam so that he buys something from the Turks? Yes, not to be like this in life. They'd rather sell theirs at double the markup.

[TermNachTer]

Banderasts have engines, but where will the Turks get a radar from AFAR. Citizen Erdogan, as always, runs ahead of the locomotive)))

[Yujanin]

where the Turks will take the radar with AFAR.

Aselsan

[stone]

It's highly doubtful. The radar is not small, but you still need to shove a bunch of all kinds of equipment, electro-optics, a satellite dish, if there is one, of course. And it is unlikely that he (radar) has generally been brought to the standard of the Turks. For some reason, I have not heard that a Turkish radar with AFAR was installed on any aircraft. Can you share information?

[Yujanin]

It's highly doubtful.

As far as I know, the Azerbaijani (contract 2021) party of Akindzhi will be equipped with Aselsan AFARs. In all likelihood, Seljuk today was talking about the Azerbaijani order.

Turkish source
According to information obtained by SavunmaSanayiST.com; Work is ongoing to integrate the AESA radar (AFAR), which is expected to be integrated into the AKINCI Attack unmanned aerial vehicle system, on the F-16 in the near future. The AESA radar, which is developed by ASELSAN and continues to be prototyped, will be integrated into the F-16 Block 30 aircraft for the first time among F-16 aircraft.
https://www.savunmasanayist.com/akinci-tiha-aesa-radarina-kavusuyor/

[TermNachTer]

I see videos, photos and layouts. Where is the live radar? What is it installed on? What are the performance characteristics?

[TermNachTer]

And where do the Turks get the components from? Canada or Germany? So now they won't sell it. You can take a model for the exhibition from Aselsan)))

[Yujanin]

And where do the Turks get the components from?

Some part is purchased, the other part is already made. Vaughn aselsan brought his optics, aiming system, reb and afar to Baikar. In fact, Western sanctions play the role of a catalyst in the development of the military-industrial complex of the TR.

[TermNachTer]

OLS on bayraktars were Canadian. Canada has now banned shipments.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Big White Brother will add. Or "asks" Turkey in such a way that they cannot refuse. For America, such "requests" are not the first time ...

"BBB" can not bend Turkey for everything.
Incirlik and S-400 are evidence of this.

[Alien From]

To be honest, it must be admitted that the Turks are making serious drones on an industrial scale.

[Cosm22]

Fair remark.
And at the same time, they somehow manage without the advertising slogan "analogues in the world."
Although, perhaps, I inattentively look through foreign media.

[NDR-791]

Quote: Cosm22

"analogues in the world".
Although, perhaps, I inattentively look through foreign media.

They are not familiar with such words. This is purely our invention, plunging all enemies. Just like "Avtomotoveloteleleradiomonter".

[mitroha]

Quote: Alien From

To be honest, it must be admitted that the Turks are making serious drones on an industrial scale.

Just drones. Turkish, but there is not much there, but they fix it as far as possible.
Do not forget that they, unlike us, for example, have access to buying and copying the best samples of the Western military-industrial complex

[km-21]

Quote: Alien From

To be honest, it must be admitted that the Turks are making serious drones on an industrial scale.

On an industrial scale, the airframe and final assembly are produced. As for engines, electronic equipment and software, there is a very high dependence on foreign suppliers. Moreover, the prospects for localization are very illusory. Therefore, it is rather difficult to call Turkey a full-fledged manufacturer of attack drones.

[Alien From]

However, this does not prevent them from making money and developing further. They are good merchants.)

[The leader of the Redskins]

Good word.
With my personal sympathy for this device.
Whatever you say, the Turks are entering a new niche of drones (heavy class). And only narrow-minded people can scoff at this.

[TermNachTer]

On an industrial scale from Chinese components, along with washing machines and refrigerators.

[Aviator_]

six computers with artificial intelligence,

Well, if it is Erdogan's intellect, then this is one thing. But in the export version to Skakuasia, I believe it will be a yellow-blaky intelligence - the device will arbitrarily change the flight level (bounce), which will complicate the air defense operations.

[Cosm22]

Your opinion is extremely valuable to us.
I would like to clarify - on what it is based?

[Aviator_]

Your opinion is extremely valuable to us.
I would like to clarify - on what it is based?

It is based on the craving of the population of one former republic of the USSR for cookies and lacy shorts.

[Cosm22]

Aha
Those. Are you a native of this very "one former republic of the USSR", since you are so well versed in the subject?
But firstly, this fact is hardly a cause for special pride.
And secondly, it is hardly a sufficient basis for the thoughtful remark you made above as an assumption.

[Aviator_]

Well, two skakuas offended by Sumeria have already opened up (Kosm22 and p0pulivox), and the remaining 6 are still in the bushes)

[Kaufman]

all who are not with me are Ukrainians and Sumerians?! HAAA))) You write nonsense and earn pluses on it. That is the essence of nature. Wow, an article about Turkish weapons and dragged Ukraine here, and fiddled with this topic. Like a teenager

[Alex russia]

With such monstrous dimensions and a ridiculous cruising speed of 240 km / h, this is just the perfect target for any air defense

[Asad]

Not everyone has air defense, Kurds can be driven with impunity.

[Alex russia]

apparently they will use it for the Kurds in the mountains, although, by analogy, the drones in the same Afghanistan didn’t really help the Americans

[svoit]

UAV Akıncı belongs to the class of "heavy" drones

All the same, 6t is rather a middle class, but our "Hunter" is already heavy

Quote: Zoldat_A

Are the Turks embarrassed to say that they are going to drive them to Ukraine? Skakuas don't have enough money

Why are you so worried about the poor? I don’t care where they get the money, even if they pay by barter (engines).
I see that this plant did not break the contract, and this really worries me that nothing is being done in this direction

[Alex russia]

The country is not indicated, since it is Ukraine, I just don’t understand why Ukraine has such drones, they are only effective in a war with an enemy that does not have any air defense, if all sorts of mini Bayratars there could still be used somehow due to their size and stealth, then this monster has no chance in the air, it's like shooting down an airship.

[Yujanin]

they are effective only in a war with an enemy that does not have any air defense

They can work without entering the enemy's air defense zone, as well as after the destruction of the latter. If during the Karabakh war Sushki could inflict numerous blows on enemy positions, then these will cope with the task all the more. In addition, Akyndzhi is much more efficient than the Su-25. Unlike the latter, the former can hang over the enemy's position for days.

[Looking for]

enough to make a "miracle weapon" out of a plastic airplane

[stankow]

Days are possible. Without one bomb.

[Yujanin]

Days are possible. Without one bomb.

12 hours is enough for a link from among such UAVs to quickly control the situation at the front.

[LZ50]

front with what enemy? if with the Kurds, then yes, if hypothetically with Syria, then no - the BukM2E air defense system will dump them from the sky into the mud.

[Alex russia]

My dear, judging by your nickname, you are apparently an Azerbaijani or a Turk, I understand that you want to believe that the "great" Turkish military-industrial complex invented some kind of miracle weapon, but I assure you that this is not so, for example, Israel has had such drones for a long time, I’m already silent about the states and China, which are 100 years ahead in drone building, but it’s not clear that they rely exclusively on drones, but simply invest in crazy loot in 5th and 6th generation aircraft, while Turkey has no funds for this, no technology, no experience, so you have to be content with the Bayraktar aircraft modeling club, which collects models from Western components

[Yujanin]

My dear, judging by your nickname, you are apparently an Azerbaijani or a Turk, I understand that you want to believe that the "great" Turkish military-industrial complex invented some kind of miracle weapon,

Do not hang labels on others, dear comrade! I'm not campaigning, I'm just discussing the topic.

[LZ50]

yes, yes, they can do it, this whatnot is good to drive the Papuans in the desert. A meeting with an enemy with combat aircraft / air defense systems will be her last.

[Karos]

I’ll tweak it a bit, they destroy conventional air defense systems without flying into their reach, and it’s dumb to shoot at them from cool air defense systems in the form of the S-400, since it will immediately be detected by other drones and destroyed by small-sized high-precision missiles.

[LZ50]

divine analytics, without an elementary comparison of the performance characteristics of the radar / air defense systems with the performance characteristics of this whatnot. And the classification of air defense systems as "conventional air defense systems" and "cool air defense systems" betrays the seminarian of the TsPSh

[prohax]

Turks make the best weapons in the world. Old Turkey is no more. Turkey is moving forward.

[Alex russia]

How many Azerbaijanis and Turks are sitting on this site, so many Mujahideen trolls, as if they got to some forum in Baku or Ankara :))) Brothers, first ask about the military-industrial complex of France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, England .... which you buy components to assemble your cheap "pro-Western" copypaste in Turkey, I'm not talking about the USA, China, Japan, Russia ... where are you relatives, relax, otherwise farts will burst - "the best weapon in the world"

[Nyrobsky]

At the moment, little is known about the contract, or rather, almost nothing is known. According to the company, this is the first contract concluded for the supply of Bayraktar Akinci abroad and that deliveries will begin in 2023. That's all, no other parameters of the signed contract are reported, and the company does not disclose the country that ordered the strike drones.

You can't hide an awl in a bag. For anyone, this stray will be shot down somewhere and replenish the register of destroyed UAVs, a matter of time. I don’t know how in Syria, but in Libya they were definitely dropped.

[Diverter]

It is right that in Russia at the time they paid and now pay great attention to the development of air defense systems.
And decommissioned air defense systems should be given to their allies.
LDNR, Syria, Venezuela, South Ossetia, etc.

[riwas]

Attack drones are approaching attack aircraft in terms of armament. The American company General Atomics has published an image of its Mojave drone with weapons. According to The Drive, among other things, Mojave received two containers with multi-barreled Minigun machine guns.

https://nplus1.ru/news/2022/01/20/mojave
https://naked-science.ru/article/tech/novyj-amerikanskij-bpla-mojave

[stels_07]

according to the idea, flying 6 tons will glow better than bayraktars?

[Aviator_]

Well, three have already opened (Cosm22, p0pulivox, kaufman has been added), and the remaining 12 are still in the bushes)