After learning of Lithuania's fundraising campaign to buy a drone for its embattled neighbor Ukraine, a Turkish defense firm decided to send one to the country for free, the firm announced on Thursday.
"The people of Lithuania have honorably raised funds to buy a Bayraktar TB2 for Ukraine. Upon learning this, Baykar will gift a Bayraktar TB2 to Lithuania free of charge and asks those funds go to Ukraine for humanitarian aid," defense firm Baykar said on Twitter.
The major Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle producer also shared photos of a visit by Vilius Semeska, Lithuania’s deputy defense minister, to Baykar headquarters in Istanbul.
Following the Turkish defense firm's announcement, Lithuania's Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas thanked Türkiye.
"It is UNBELIEVABLE but Türkiye just agreed to give the Bayraktar that Lithuania gathered money for, FOR FREE. It is amazing! ... Thank you Türkiye!" he said on Twitter.
Anusauskas added that the money raised for the drone will go to support Ukraine.
Source: Anadolu Agency
The Bayraktar KIZILELMA Unmanned Fighter Jet is the most important project on which Baykar, the world’s largest UCAV exporter, is currently working. Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar says that the company allocated $1 billion to the project.
A historic agreement for the export of Bayraktar TB2 UCAVs was signed in Zagreb between Baykar and the Ministry of Defense of Croatia. The Bayraktar TB2, Türkiye’s leading defense platform, will join Croatia’s security forces inventory and begin operations in Croatian airspace.
There are no modern armed forces without drones. Bayraktars are UCAVs that on the one hand carry out reconnaissance missions, and on the other are capable of performing combat missions as well. This marks a major stage in the process of the Polish Armed Forces’ modernization equipping them with modern equipment. We are starting the process of equipping military units with Bayraktars.
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