On Wednesday, December 14, the chairman of the board of the Baykar company and its technical director Selcuk Bayraktar shared a video of the take-off of Turkey's first unmanned fighter jet Kızılelma.

He published footage of the successful test on Twitter.

"We couldn't keep it on the ground any longer! Thank God..." - commented Selchuk Bayraktar.

Daha fazla yerde tutamadik uçtu!


Rabbimize kukkler olsun...#KIZILELMA ✈️



We could not keep it anymore on the ground.

It flew!

Thanks to our Lord.

pic.twitter.com/kfQAoKzrKz

— Selçuk Bayraktar (@Selcuk) December 14, 2022

According to Turkish media, this drone will be a platform that will revolutionize the battlefield thanks to the ability to land and take off on ships with short runways.

One of them, the Turkish-built TCG Anadolu, is currently undergoing cruise trials.

Also, Kızılelma can conduct aerial combat with aggressive maneuvers and the use of air-to-air missiles.

The new drone is equipped with an AI-25TLT turbojet engine from the Ukrainian Motor Sich company.

Thanks to this, it can develop a maximum speed of up to 800 km/h.

Its maximum flight duration is 5 hours, and its upper flight limit is 12 km.

The combat load of the fighter drone is 1 ton.

It will be recalled that earlier the unmanned fighter successfully passed the test on the way to the first flight, spending about six seconds in the air. 

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