Bayraktar TB3 Makes Its First (Simulated) Flight in HAVELSAN's Malazgirt
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I think Malazgirt is more exciting news than it first seems. Having a high quality, physically accurate simulation platform will be an excellent asset for the Turkish Armed Forces. For instance, since this platform has high visual fidelity (looks like they're using Unreal Engine 5), it can be used to generate synthetic training data for aircraft identification. I doubt there are high quality labelled datasets of the Dassault Rafale in all sorts of positions, weather and lighting conditions, distances and liveries.
Furthermore, if this software is able to emulate the flight characteristics and avionics of Turkish-designed UCAVs and pit their AIs against real pilots or themselves, you could theoretically use something like
reinforcement learning to teach them how to dogfight better.
It's also sweet that there's reportedly a watered down civilian version in the works. HAVELSAN has decades of simulation experience. DCS, eat your heart out!