According to an executive at Turkish Aerospace Industries, the new Egyptian government is interested in buying Turkey-made unmanned planes. Some Middle East countries prefer Turkey rather than Israel or the US, defense experts say. Turkey will also sell six multi-role tactical platform naval vessels to the North African country Egypt is interested in buying made-in-Turkey unmanned aerial vehicles called...
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has launched a small, armed, unmanned helicopter which it says could prove attractive to Middle Eastern countries as an attractive alternative to the products being produced in Israel. At the Paris Air Show today the R-IHA – the Turkish acronym for rotary-wing UAS – was launched and Gorkem Bilgi, business development leader at TAI’s integrated...
The TAI system, which is designed for night and day missions including adverse weather conditions, performs real time image intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, moving/stationery target detection, recognition, identification and tracking missions. TAI plans to equip the aircraft by August 2011 with Aselsan’s AselFLIR 300T electro optics complex for infrared surveillance and mobile target designation capability and a miniature SAR radar...
More first flights from Turkey, this time a potential armed helicopter. Said to be designed for hot and high operations. We are not sure about the belt drive to the main rotor. Turkish Aerospace Industries TAI, has developed this mini rotary wing UAV in a short time. The first test flight was succesfully completed and flown 150 meters. The...
Turkish National Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said Tuesday that Turkey’s dependency on foreign manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles has ended. Turkish Defense Industry Undersecretariat and Turkey’s Vestel Defense Corporation has signed a protocol Tuesday under a project to develop a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle for the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Speaking at the signature ceremony for the protocol in...
Turkey’s first medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV made its first test flight Dec. 31. Dubbed the ANKA, the 600-kilogram UAV flew for 14 minutes, said officials from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), Turkey’s main aerospace company and the UAV’s developer. They said a total of 180 engineers have been working since 2005 on the ANKA, which was unveiled last summer. Powered by...
Turkey’s Vestel Corporation has won a tender of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) for the supply of unmanned aerial vehicles engineered completely by Vestel. Vestel’s Executive Board Chairman Omer Yungul said that the company gave high importance to the project involving unmanned aerial vehicles. We have won the tender of the TSK. However, we have not signed the agreement...
