Bayraktar TB3 AUAV, which will be exhibited publicly for the first time at TEKNOFEST 2023, will begin flight tests this year.
Bayraktar TB3 Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (AUAV), which Baykar has developed nationally and originally, will be on public display for the first time at TEKNOFEST 2023, which will be held at Istanbul Ataturk Airport between April 27 and May 1.
According to Baykar’s statement, the Bayraktar TB3 AUAV, which can be seen on the production line in the photographs taken during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the Ozdemir Bayraktar National Technology Center yesterday, will begin flight tests this year.
Baykar Chairman of the Board of Directors Selcuk Bayraktar and Baykar General Manager Haluk Bayraktar gave information about the latest status of the national projects carried out during President Erdogan’s visit.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA, Turkiye’s first unmanned combat aircraft, which first appeared before the public at TEKNOFEST Black Sea on August 30, 2022, made its first flight on December 14, 2022.
It will be the first armed drone in the world with the ability to take off and land from short-runway ships
Bayraktar TB3 AUAV will be exhibited publicly for the first time at TEKNOFEST 2023, which will be held at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul between April 27 and May 1 on the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkiye.
Bayraktar TB3 AUAV, which was developed nationally and originally by Baykar, will be the first armed unmanned aerial vehicle in the world with the ability to take off and land from short-runway ships such as TCG Anadolu, with its foldable wing structure. The capabilities of Bayraktar TB3 will also be an important innovation for unmanned aerial vehicles in this class.
Bayraktar TB3, which will also have the ability to communicate beyond the line of sight, can thus be controlled from very long distances. Thus, it will have a multiplier effect on Turkiye’s deterrent power by performing its reconnaissance-surveillance, intelligence and offensive missions against overseas targets with the smart munitions it carries.
Baykar, as a result of a competitive process, left its American, European and Chinese competitors behind and started 2023 with the export contract for Bayraktar TB2 of $370 million, with the agreement signed with the Kuwait Ministry of Defense.
Baykar, which has been carrying out all its projects with its own resources from the beginning to the present, has obtained 75% of all its revenues from exports since the beginning of the UAV R&D process in 2003. The company became the export leader of the defense and aerospace industry in 2021, according to the data of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM). Baykar, whose export rate was 99.3% in the contracts signed in 2022, made exports of $1.18 billion. Baykar, which is the biggest exporter of the defense and aerospace industry, has a turnover of $1.4 billion in 2022. Export agreements have been signed with 28 countries for Bayraktar TB2 AUAV and with 6 countries for Bayraktar AKINCI TIHA.
Source: AA / Prepared by Irem Yildiz