Combat aerial vehicle flies at altitude of 30,000 feet, stays in air for 13 hours, 24 minutes.
Turkey's Bayraktar Akinci Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) on Saturday flied up to an altitude of 30,000 feet, staying in the air for 13 hours and 24 minutes with a total payload of 1,360 kilograms (2,998 pounds).
Developed indigenously by the defense firm Baykar under a project carried out with the leadership of Turkey's Defense Industries Presidency, Bayraktar Akinci UCAV is improving its capabilities step by step, said a statement by the company.
With a take-off weight of 6 tons, the combat drone displayed a strong performance with a payload close to full load and rose to an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Bayraktar Akinci UCAV on July 8 broke an altitude record in Turkish aviation history by climbing up to 38,039 feet in its flight that lasted 25 hours and 46 minutes.
Akinci, which has made 874 sorties in test and training flights so far, hit the targets with full accuracy in the firing test on July 5 with warhead ammunitions MAM-C, MAM-L, and MAM-T, indigenously developed by Turkey's rocket producer Roketsan.
Source: Anadolu Agency
The Bayraktar TB3, which recently made aviation history as the first UCAV to successfully operate from a short-runway vessel, continues conducting firing tests with the UAV-122 Supersonic Missile across multiple scenarios. For the first time in the history of warfare, a tactical-class UCAV is launching supersonic missiles from distances exceeding 50 kilometers.
Bayraktar TB2 becomes first UCAV to perform autonomous spin recovery.
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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