Haluk Bayraktar awarded country's highest national honor by order of President Ibrahim Traore.
The chief executive officer of Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar was awarded a state medal Tuesday in Burkina Faso, where the company’s Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been exported.
Haluk Bayraktar received the Ordre de L'etalon Officier medal, the country's highest national honor, by the order of Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traore for his outstanding and exceptional contributions to the West African nation’s peace, security and counter-terrorism activities.
Bayraktar was presented with the medal by André Roch Compaoré, the country's grand chancellor, at a ceremony held in the capital Ouagadougou.
Bayraktar later met with President Traore, who thanked him for his work.
The Bayraktar TB2 is Baykar's most well-known and extensively covered system, with a wide range of combat experience from Libya to Karabakh and most recently Ukraine.
Source: Anadolu Agency
The Turkish pioneering drone maker has announced its unmanned fighter jet had successfully completed ground tests, as the landmark project inches closer to performing its maiden flight in the coming days.
The Bayraktar TB3, which recently made aviation history as the first UCAV to successfully take off and land on a short-runway vessel, achieved a direct hit during its first test firing of the IHA-122 Supersonic Missile.
During the test conducted at the Akıncı Flight Training and Test Center in Çorlu, Tekirdağ, the Bayraktar TB3 UAV remained continuously in the air at an average altitude of 20,000 feet for 32 hours.
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