Baykar Turkish company
Baykar Bayraktar TB-1
Baykar
Bayraktar TB-1/TB-2
Role Unmanned aerial vehicle
National origin Turkey
Manufacturer Baykar
Designer Baykar
Status In service
Primary user Turkish Armed Forces
Number built 580+ (June 2023)
Variants
Bayraktar Mini UAV
Bayraktar TB1
Bayraktar TB2
Bayraktar Akıncı
Bayraktar TB3
Bayraktar Kızılelma
Bayraktar VTOL
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History Baykar Bayraktar TB-1/TB-2
Baykar is a private Turkish defence company
Bayraktar TB1 (or Bayraktar Çaldıran) is the prototype UAV made for the Tactical UAV program of the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (Savunma Sanayii Mustesarligi or SSM; now the Presidency of Defense Industries) of Turkey, started in 2007. SSM invited two companies to compete for a prototype demonstration phase of the Tactical UAS Program. In 2009, Kale-Baykar, a joint venture between the Kale Group and Baykar Technologies, demonstrated Block A (named Bayraktar Çaldıran) with its dual redundant avionics system and fully autonomous takeoff and landing capability. The aircraft was selected as the winner of the program. While the contract was signed with the Presidency of Defense Industries for Bayraktar TB1s, these products were not delivered and remained as prototypes for Bayraktar Block 2s. Instead, serial production commenced with Bayraktar TB2
Bayraktar TB2 is the serial production aircraft of the first tactical UAV of Baykar, Bayraktar TB1. Baykar started to develop a new combat tactical aerial vehicle system on request of Presidency of Defense Industries, after the experiences of its first tactical UAV Bayraktar Çaldıran (TB1) flown in 2011. The Bayraktar TB2 conducted its maiden flight in August 2014. On 18 December 2015, a video was published for the missile test of Bayraktar TB2 in collaboration with ROKETSAN, testing Roketsan's MAM (Smart Micro Munition)s and TUBITAK-SAGE BOZOK laser-guided bombs for the first time. The Turkish Armed Forces describe Bayraktar as a "Tactical UAV Class" to avoid competition with the TAI Anka UAV, but international standards would classify it as a medium-altitude long-endurance UAV0
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General characteristics
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- Crew: 0 on board, 3 per ground control station
- Length: 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
- Wing span: 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
- Max. take-off mass: 700 kg (1,540 lb)
- Payload: 150 kg (331 lb)
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Powerplant
- Payload: 150 kg (331 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912-iS internal combustion engine with injection
- Propeller: 2-bladed variable-pitch
- Fuel capacity: 300 litres (79 US gal)
- Fuel type: gasoline (petrol)
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- Maximum speed: (222 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 70 knots (130 km/h)
- Range: up to 4,000 km (2,160 nmi)
- Communication range: line-of-sight propagation, < 300 kilometres (186 mi)
- Service ceiling: 25,000 ft (7,620 m)
- Operational altitude: (5,486 m)
- Endurance: 27 hours
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Hardpoints: four hardpoints with provisions to carry combinations of: - MAM: MAM-C and MAM-L laser-guided smart bombs
- L-UMTAS (Long Range Anti tank Missile System)
- Roketsan Cirit (70 mm Missile System)
- TUBITAK-SAGE BOZOK Laser Guided Rockets
- TUBITAK-SAGE TOGAN quad rack of GPS/INS guided 81 mm mortars
- Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System
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Baykar Bayraktar
TB-1/TB-2
Bayraktar TB2 is a medium altitude and long-range (MALE) tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system manufactured by Baykar Makina.
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