Thank you @adenl for the summary.Source: https://twitter.com/kamerknc
- Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar: Akıncı will be in the inventory months later. Tests continue. You cannot even buy this system from abroad with money. - It has a mission radius of 2,500 km with all its smart ammunition and 5,000 km if you use it for reconnaissance and intelligence purposes.
- Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar: We are working for an SİHA that can automatically land and take off vertically in TCG Anatolia. Our goal is to complete it in 1 year.
- Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar: (WESCAM embargo) Bayraktar TB2 has 16,000 types of components. We have 1,000 local suppliers. We had cooperation with Canada on camera, these were first developed for TB2. 15 days later, we continued to fly with ASELSAN's CATS. Baykar
- CEO Haluk Bayraktar: We are more advanced than Israel in terms of UAVs. "In 2004, when nobody knew about Baykar, even the public institutions of the state did not, the Israelis knew. The company that made Heron wanted to be a secret partner with us. We didn't even have a product yet. "
- Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar: Turk, who designed the radar altimeter of the reconnaissance vehicle Curiosity, which landed on Mars before Perseverance, returned to our country and is currently working as a consultant in Baykar.
5000km ISR mission radius equals 10000km traveled range. Assuming cruise speeds of 300-350-400 km/ph, that is an endurance of 33-28-25 hours on the respective speeds. For more than two times the enginepower compared to the Aksungur, this is an excellent performance for the Akinci.
Great news!