Advancements and Deployment of Turkish UAVs: A Strategic Overview

It'll be a VERY capable VLO drone once they make the surfaces more smooth and remove the antennas as they transition into the LRIP phase... I'd wager that the flat nozzle will only come with the indigenous engine.
ASELSAN is perfecting their conformal antenna prototypes for serial production
 
It'll be a VERY capable VLO drone once they make the surfaces more smooth and remove the antennas as they transition into the LRIP phase... I'd wager that the flat nozzle will only come with the indigenous engine.

Yeah, they will likely follow the trend and have a flat exhaust nozzle on the TF-6000. On subject of of the TF-6000, TEI have performed 54 engine runs to date since it's first turn over on March 9th.
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The FULMAR 500-A Long-Range AESA Reconnaissance and Surveillance Radar being developed under a protocol signed with the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB) in 2023. The FULMAR 500-A system is designed to fully meet the requirements defined by the Turkish Naval Forces Command. Leveraging ASELSAN’s extensive experience with AESA radars, the system will be able to continuously scan a 360-degree area with a coverage range of up to 200 nautical miles, tracking maritime and airborne targets.

FULMAR 500-A radar will be capable of detecting small maritime targets, such as periscopes and mines, performing target classification and identification, providing SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and ISAR (Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging, generating range profiles, and tracking moving ground targets. With its modular and open architecture, the radar system will support IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) integration. The FULMAR 500-A Radar System will first be deployed on national UAVs in 2026, and afterward, it will be integrated into all types of manned and unmanned aircraft systems performing maritime patrol missions.
 

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"Bayraktar TB3 and Akıncı performing a formation flight at TEKNOFEST Adana. In the near future, the unmanned fighter aircraft KIZIELMA will also take part in this formation flight."

View: https://x.com/tdefenceagency/status/1841088767760662986
"Anka-III UAV, which made its first public demonstration flight at TEKNOFEST Adana, and its companions Hürkuş and Hürjet."
View: https://x.com/tdefenceagency/status/1841085304926535787
 
Image from Teknofest 2024,
ANKA-II with Super Simsek as payload - "Super Simsek will be able to carry out air-to-surface and air-to-air attacks, and through electronic warfare systems installed as part of its own capacity, conduct missions such as detecting and suppressing enemy systems on the ground".
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It seems TEI and Baykar will adapt the TS-1400 Turboshaft engine to Akinci for UAV based SOJ and other missions.
Baykar will develop a larger Akıncı TİHA using a new engine that will evolve from TEI's TS-1400 Turboshaft engine.
Thus, Akıncı TİHA can become the main platform for the UAV-SOJ project and the bomber UAV that can carry heavier loads.

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