Baykar
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Defense & Combat
MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
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Defense & Combat
Bayraktar Kızılelma: Turkey's Jet-Powered UCAV and Its First BVR Kill Explained
Turkey's Bayraktar Kızılelma is a jet-powered, internally-armed, low-observable unmanned fighter that achieved the first-ever UCAV beyond-visual-range air-to-air kill in November 2025. Here's how the platform was built, what it carries, and where it's headed.
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Defense & Combat
Bayraktar TB3: How Turkey Built a Carrier Drone After Losing Its F-35s
Turkey's Bayraktar TB3 is the world's first fixed-wing UCAV to operate autonomously from a short-deck amphibious assault ship — a direct consequence of Ankara's expulsion from the F-35 program and the subsequent pivot to indigenous drone aviation.
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Defense & Combat
Beyond the TB2: Turkey's Akinci and Aksungur Redefine the UCAV Export Tier
The Bayraktar TB2 put Turkey on the drone map, but two larger platforms—Baykar's Akinci UCAV and TAI's Aksungur—represent the next tier of Turkish strike capability, now operating in more than a dozen countries and carrying cruise missiles and air-launched drones.
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Defense & Combat
Bayraktar TB2: The $5M Drone That Rewrote Armed UAV Economics
At one-quarter the price of an MQ-9 Reaper, Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 cracked open the armed-drone export market to 36 countries — while its Ukraine combat arc exposed the real limits of what a piston-engine MALE can do against a peer adversary that adjusts.
