A Turkish-made drone helped rescue a Danish tourist who lost his way at a ski resort in northwestern Turkiye, officials said Saturday.
Turkiye’s signature Bayraktar TB2 drone found the missing tourist on Friday at the famed Uludag resort so that rescue teams could bring him out of the cold and back to safety.
After getting lost on an afternoon walk, with the temperature dropping, Yusuf Sephizade, 21, a Danish citizen, was able to reach local gendarmerie teams by phone, who figured out that he was in Alacam in Uludag’s Kestel district, but not his precise location.
That was when a Bayraktar TB2 drone belonging to the gendarmerie went into action, taking flight and finding the lost tourist’s exact coordinates.
Using the drone’s coordinates, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) and gendarmerie teams found Sephizade and took him to a hospital, where he was discharged after doctors examined him.
The drone, made by Turkish defense firm Baykar, entered the Turkish Armed Forces inventory in 2014 and is currently used by several other countries, including Ukraine, Qatar, and Azerbaijan. NATO member Poland has also signed a deal to buy the drones.
Turkiye has used its cutting-edge drones effectively over the years in cross-border, anti-terror military operations, such as Euphrates Shield, Olive Branch, and Spring Shield, to liberate its border with Syria from terrorist groups.
In August 2020, the second prototype of the Bayraktar Akinci, Turkiye's first indigenous drone, passed the 20,000-feet (6,096-meter) altitude test.
The drone can fly for 24 hours and boasts a 40,000-feet (12,192 meters) service ceiling, 20-meter (65-feet) wingspan, and a carrying capacity of 1,350 kilograms (2,976 pounds).
Source: Anadolu Agency
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مركز الصيانة والإصلاح والعمرة (MRO)
مزود خدمات الطائرات بدون طيار (UAV)
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