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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