The Bayraktar AKINCI Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), in a check shot utilizing Roketsan‘s domestically developed IHA-230 missile, efficiently hit the distant goal with pinpoint accuracy.
According to a press release from Baykar, as a part of the Bayraktar AKINCI Project led by the Presidency of Defense Industries, the mixing of latest domestically produced ammunition and methods into the Bayraktar AKINCI UAV, developed nationally and initially by Baykar, is progressing efficiently.
The check firing, performed at this time with Türkiye’s first air-to-ground supersonic missile, the İHA-230, developed domestically by Roketsan, was efficiently accomplished.
Taking off from the AKINCI Flight Training and Test Center in Çorlu, Tekirdağ, the Bayraktar AKINCI headed to Sinop to conduct long-range firing assessments.
The KKS/ANS guided İHA-230 missile fired by the Bayraktar AKINCI from the Sinop Firing Range hit the distant goal within the Black Sea with pinpoint accuracy.
In the check exercise performed on February twenty fourth, the Bayraktar AKINCI C remained airborne for over 1 hour. During the flight, aerodynamic parameter steps had been efficiently examined. With a complete energy of 1700 HP, consisting of two X 850 HP, the Bayraktar AKINCI C would be the handiest and succesful fight platform in its class. The Bayraktar AKINCI TİHA, which made its first flight on December sixth, 2019, entered into service on August twenty ninth, 2021. In the latest interval, the Bayraktar AKINCI A with 2X450 HP and the Bayraktar AKINCI B with 2X750 HP have additionally begun to enter the stock of Turkish safety forces in addition to pleasant and allied international locations, notably Azerbaijan.
The first flight of the Bayraktar AKINCI TIHA, which entered Azerbaijan’s stock, was witnessed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Baykar Chairman Selçuk Bayraktar collectively on February ninth. The export and cooperation settlement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia final 12 months marked the biggest single export settlement ever realized by the Turkish protection and aerospace business within the historical past of the Republic.
On February twenty second, in the course of the check performed, the Bayraktar AKINCI efficiently destroyed the Albatros IDA, which was crusing over the ocean, utilizing the ASELFLIR-500 Electro-Optical Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Targeting System developed nationally by Aselsan.
Source: www.anews.com.tr