Ukraine will assemble Turkish UAVs larger than "Bayraktar"

December 12 2021 10

Militarytechnical cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey continues to develop. A modern joint Ukrainian-Turkish plant will soon appear in the city of Vasilkov, Obukhovsky district, Kiev region, where drones will be assembled. Aleksey Arestovich, speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbass, a freelance adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, spoke about this in an interview with Radio Liberty (a media recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).

He explained that the company plans to produce different unmanned aerial vehicles, including larger (heavier) Turkish UAVs than Bayraktar TB2 from Baykar Makina. This is the Anka family of drones from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). The first manufactured UAV is planned to be rolled out of the assembly shop at the end of 2.

He (the plant - ed.) Will produce Ukrainian-Turkish drones, including Anka. Including Ukrainian drones, promising. In particular, we can talk about jet drones, which are interceptors. They will have Ukrainian engines and the rest of Turkish avionics: hull, etc.

- he said on December 11, adding that Anka is the next generation of UAVs after Bayraktar.

These are jet, not piston, but jet UAVs, exceeding Bayraktar in all characteristics.

- he stressed.

Note that the Bayraktar TB2 drone with a maximum takeoff weight of 650 kg first took to the skies in 2014, it is based on the earlier Bayraktar TB1 launched in 2009. As for the Anka drone, it made its first flight in 2010.

Anka is a multipurpose UAV, with a maximum take-off weight of 1600 kg, made mainly of composite materials. It has a V-shaped tail unit (at an angle of 100º), a three-bladed pusher propeller and a retractable three-wheel landing gear. The payload is 250 kg, of which 200 kg can be placed on an external sling.

The payload can include a modular optoelectronic system with a thermal imager and a laser rangefinder - Star SAFIRE®380-HLD designator, Aselsan SARPER synthetic aperture radar, electronic warfare equipment, 8 Roketsan Cirit guided anti-tank missiles, or 4 MAM-L guided gliding bombs with laser guidance.

The UAV's cruising speed is 200 km / h, and the service ceiling (the height to which it can rise) is 9 km. The UAV can be in flight for 24 hours, when controlled from a ground station, its range is 250 km, and when controlled from a satellite, the radius is unlimited. The power plant is a Turkish-made aircraft engine with a capacity of 170 hp. What unit the Ukrainian side will install is still unknown.

We remind you that on September 29, Bayraktar Savunma and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine signed an agreement on the construction of a center in the Kiev region, in which they will conduct personnel training, as well as test and maintain UAVs manufactured by the aforementioned Turkish company. The press service of Vladimir Zelensky's office called the document "a big real step forward."

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Valery Vinokurov

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12 December 2021 21: 21

these drones are children's toys, and stupid Ukrainians do not understand this and spend their last strength and money on them
All control centers have long been known to us, as well as home airfields.
In the first minutes of the conflict, they will be destroyed by our calibers
And the Khakhlov have practically no missile defense, just like there are no satellites that control drones.
I'm not even talking about the fact that we seem to be able to jam control and even intercept it
Well, let them play until they play enough
Well, how small children are, really ..
1. Shmurzik
  
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  12 December 2021 23: 18
  
  All control centers to us have long been known, as have airfields
  
  For a long time ??? And the fact that they are not yet there (I mean control centers), and if there are, then
  mobile - nothing right?
  
  I'm not even talking about the fact that we seem to be able to jam control and even intercept it
  
  The key word is "seems" Yes ?
  1. Valery Vinokurov
    
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    22 December 2021 11: 11
    
    shmurzik
    When we start to beat you, Judas, then we will see in practice which of us is right
    And so, what to pour from empty to empty, we are still not experts in these matters))
    1. Shmurzik
      
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      23 December 2021 09: 12
      
      When we start to beat you, Judas, then we will see in practice which of us is right
      
      Well, this is if you deign to leave your sweaty sofa ... and this will not take a long time to wait ...
      
      ... we are still not experts in these matters))
      
      Gold words !
NikolayN

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12 December 2021 23: 12

Well, well, there are no simple situations. Let's hope that the effectiveness of the application is not very high, after all, control from a distance ... it may be time to create a simple aircraft to destroy an uav. Half made of plastic and composites (they were plywood), lightweight, easy to operate, subsonic, with simple electronics, inexpensive weapons. Quiet engine. To resolve issues in border conflicts. Shoot down 5-6 UAVs in one sortie. Also for the use of offab 100-120.
1. Binder
  
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  13 December 2021 00: 30
  
  Quote: NikolayN
  Shoot down 5-6 UAVs in one sortie.
  
  Dreamy youth.
  
  Quote: NikolayN
  Let's hope that the effectiveness of the application is not very high,
  
  In Karabakh, UAVs and loitering ammunition worked very effectively, why would they suddenly screw up in Donbas?
  1. gunnerminer
    
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    13 December 2021 02: 36
    
    Compared to Orlan-10, the most massive Russian UAV, all these Turkish things, so-so products. Only Japanese motors, American electronics, did not end there. It turned out that only the body and the MNP-M7 navigation receiver were there from the Russian manufacturer. And even that one was created on the basis of the ADSP-BF534 microcircuit of the American company Analog Devices. The rest of the components: GPS tracker, starter generator, engine, ignition module, flight controller, telemetry transmission module and GPS module were produced in the USA, Germany, Japan, China and other countries.
  2. NikolayN
    
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    13 December 2021 22: 33
    
    Why do you think so? Airplane with one bomb! Artillery threshes and threshes day and night, threshes and threshes. Bayraktar arrived and bombed everything with one bomb. Advertising. When conducting b / actions, the work of aviation is measured by regiment sorties.
  3. NikolayN
    
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    13 December 2021 22: 42
    
    Indeed, he was modest about 5-6. In the Second World War, up to 9 Yunkesov were shot down with one salvo. And ask how many Americans were shot down by our complexes in Vietnam.
Bulanov

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13 December 2021 11: 04

A modern joint Ukrainian-Turkish plant will soon appear in the city of Vasilkov, Obukhovsky district, Kiev region, where drones will be assembled.

Will the electricity to this plant be supplied of course from the Union State - Belarus?