Bayraktar confirms that the story of the drones that he developed started from a small workshop, and it was a small project to manufacture aircraft that can fly automatically, and the first version of it was small planes (Bayrakdar Mini), which have a short flight range and can fly in the sky for one hour and carry out direct reconnaissance It can also fly up to 15 km.

He adds that work on the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aircraft project began in 2010, then the Ministry of Defense Industries advisory began working in 2014 on these aircraft, to be included in the list of weapons of the armed forces for the first time in 2014, and Bayraktar says that they were effective Very much in the process of combating terrorism and in the operations that took place outside Turkey.

While work began on the "Akinci" drones in 2016, which are large planes containing 100 computers, unlike the "Bayraktar TP2", which contains 40 computers.

Turkish drones specifications

According to the guest of an episode (20/2/2022) of the "Al-Muqabala" program, Turkey used to buy drones from Israel, but the planes rented from abroad in 2009 were not able to go up and down automatically, and the Israeli pilots used to make the drones go up and down by means of a control device. Manual.

However, Turkey - as the guest of the episode says - was later able to manufacture drones, starting with the smallest, and its planes could climb and land automatically based on software it had developed.

The Turkish engineer reveals the specifications of the drones produced by Turkey, and describes the "Bayraktar TB2" as the most famous drone in the world, operating with 16 countries, with a range of hundreds of kilometers, and can stay in the air for 27 hours, and it can carry a payload of up to 130 kilograms, And equipped with very smart and sensitive military equipment.

As for the "Akanji" drones, they are more advanced than the "Bayraktar TB2" drone, as they have very high capabilities and can carry out strategic missions, and they can also carry cruise missiles, and they also have the ability to engage in air strikes, and can be controlled via industrial numbers.

One of the specifications of the Turkish drones is that they are difficult to detect by radar, and they have achieved great success against tanks and defensive systems in the places where they were used;

Such as the Syrian Idlib and the war in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

dependency on the outside

As for the secret of the transformation that Turkey has achieved in the field of independent defense industries during the past 20 years, the mastermind of the Turkish drone industry links it to the issue of dedication to work and freedom from dependence on the outside.

He reveals that his country used to depend on the outside by 85% in the field of defense industries, but it has become able to rely on itself, stressing that all work designs and core components have been developed, and Turkey no longer has any dependency on the outside in the issue of securing materials or core components in the field of defense. defense industries.

He says that all the computers and electronic software are of local production.

Selcuk Bayraktar - who is also the technical director of the Bikar factory - places Turkey among the top three in the world in the field of drone manufacturing, as this field is acquired by America, China and Israel, and adds that Turkey has drones that are the best in their accuracy and has unmanned warplanes that work is underway. on it currently.

According to the Turkish guest, Europe does not have platforms comparable to Turkey's, and currently Turkish drones are exported and sold even in European countries.