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A fast drone at 500 kmh and a long 2000 km range is little hard goals to achieve together. Baykar's K2 achieves this range with a piston engine with a slower speed.
 

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A fast drone at 500 kmh and a long 2000 km range is little hard goals to achieve together. Baykar's K2 achieves this range with a piston engine with a slower speed.
Yeah, it does look BS to me hence the warning.
 

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Range and explosive I suppose.
Geran 4 mtow is 450 kg exactly 10 times the Ayaz. May as well compare it to a Tomahawk. Geran 4's warhead alone weighs more than Ayaz.


AyazGeran 4
45 kg450kg
6.5 kg50 kg
1.9 meter 3 meter
300 km500-700 km
 
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That is one of the weirdest engine placements I have ever seen.
 

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Well I expect something similar to geran but jet powered and somewhat stealthy
Ayaz is jet powered and looks pretty stealhy from the front. It is likely to be meant to be practical in its range class. 45kg is very easy to ground handle, so practical to deploy. Probably some other design will match the Geran4 specs. We have all the means to make them, it should be a matter of time if not some other maker is already making it.
 

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Türkiye unveiled Arı Kovanı (Beehive) at the Ateş Serbest-2026 exercise — a retractable-roof sentry shelter that rapidly deploys kamikaze FPV drones from a protected, fixed position.

The monoblock booth features a mechanical opening roof and a rotary launch mechanism carrying 30 Gözükara FPV/loitering munitions on a 10-shelf conveyor system.

Shelves can be quickly refilled by the operator as they empty. The concept allows rapid vertical deployment of low-cost precision-strike drones for base defense or perimeter security without exposing operators — essentially an automated drone dispenser disguised as a guard booth.
 

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Türkiye unveiled Arı Kovanı (Beehive) at the Ateş Serbest-2026 exercise — a retractable-roof sentry shelter that rapidly deploys kamikaze FPV drones from a protected, fixed position.

The monoblock booth features a mechanical opening roof and a rotary launch mechanism carrying 30 Gözükara FPV/loitering munitions on a 10-shelf conveyor system.

Shelves can be quickly refilled by the operator as they empty. The concept allows rapid vertical deployment of low-cost precision-strike drones for base defense or perimeter security without exposing operators — essentially an automated drone dispenser disguised as a guard booth.
This system needs at least 1 interceptor drone on every rack so that it can defend itself as well, otherwise a great idea. In fact, putting a similar system on an UGV or and USV could be very interesting.
 

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Like the Hailstrike from Elbit ? But a drone version.

I believe mobility and deployment of such loitering ammo is going to become increasingly important.

Unless that box can be buried to do ambush type attacks, I don't imagine it's going to find many buyers.
 

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# AERIAL TARGET

• ACTIVE / PASSIVE RCS AUGMENTER • DOPPLER/ACOUSTIC MDI

• ACTIVE RCS AUGMENTER • DOPPLER / ACOUSTIC MDI • IR AUGMENTER/ HOTNOSE


# Decoy

  • ACTIVE / PASSIVE RCS AUGMENTER
  • CHAFF & FLARE

• ACTIVE RCS AUGMENTER
• IR AUGMENTER /HOT NOSE
• CHAFF & FLARE

# SIGINT

- IFM receiver

# Electronic Warfare

- Jammer

# CRUISE MISSILE
• IIR SEEKER WITH 25 KG HE WAR HEAD (>800 KM RANGE)
. RF SEEKER WITH 25 KG HE WAR HHEAD (>800 KM RANGE)
• LASER SEEKER WITH 25 KG HE WAR HEAD (>800 KM RANGE)
• GNSS WITH 50 KG HE WAR HEAD (>800 KM RANGE)


Pretty good variety but I wonder what is the use case for ladder seeker with 800k range
 

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