Bayraktar TB2
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The Bayraktar TB2 is a Turkish combat and reconnaissance drone . It was developed by the company Baykar Technologies together with the Turkish land forces and has been in use with them since at least 2016.
drone
The fully autonomous drone can remain in the air for 30 hours without interruption and reaches an altitude of 9144 meters. It can take off in autonomous mode without ground control of a coordinator, fly to a programmed target, spy on it, return and land independently. At the end of November 2014, after successfully completing the test phase, six drones and two control centers were delivered to the Turkish armed forces . Six more drones should be delivered by mid-2015.
Bayraktar means "standard bearer".
Experts estimate the production costs of the TB2 to be rather low. This puts it in competition with the larger Chinese Wing Loong .
During combat operations, the drone can be equipped with up to four laser-guided mini-bombs of the types MAM-L (22 kg) and MAM-C (2.5 kg) or with the L-UMTAS rocket (37.5 kg).
Operations and export
In December 2015, the successful launch of an air-to -surface missile from a Bayraktar TB2 drone was reported.
Syria
During the Euphrates shield military operation, the Turkish air force bombed positions of the Islamic State terrorist militia in al-Bab, using the Bayraktar drone. In addition to reconnaissance flights, it fired air-to-surface missiles at targets.
In 2017, according to Syrian sources, a Bayraktar was shot down in Syria by a Syrian Panzir S-1 .
When Turkish troops increasingly clashed with Syrian government troops in Syrian Idlib at the end of February / beginning of March 2020, the Bayraktar-TB2 and ANKA-S drones were deployed in large numbers. An agreement with Russia that does not allow Turkish aircraft over parts of Syria but allows drones promoted the deployment.
Ukraine
In early 2019, it was announced that Turkey would sell Ukraine's Bayraktar BR2 combat drones. The then Ukrainian President Poroshenko said he wanted to buy 12 combat drones and three ground stations for his country. The deal is part of an agreement between Prime Minister Erdoğan and Poroshenko on increased military cooperation. The drones should be equipped with missile systems to destroy armored vehicles, fortifications or sea targets.
Libya
According to media reports, Bayraktar drones are also used in the Libyan civil war and contributed to the military successes of the GNA in summer 2020. Two of the drones are said to have been shot down by LNA air defense units. The LNA itself lost several Panzir air defense systems to attacks by TB2 drones. An LNA An-26 transport aircraft may have been destroyed on the airport premises by TB2 drones.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turkish military gets first fully autonomous drone. (No longer available online.) German Turkish newspaper, November 14, 2014, archived from the original on November 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 3, 2020 : “The Turkish army has so far been dependent on foreign reconnaissance drones. The Turkish government experienced the consequences of the dependency bitterly with the «Heron» drone. "
- ^ The UAV and Military Doctrine . In: Unmanned . Pluto Press, ISBN 978-1-78371-147-5 , pp. 48-66 , doi : 10.2307 / j.ctt183p2c5.7 .
- ↑ David Donald: "Roketsan Expands Weapons Portfolio" ainonline.com of November 11, 2017
- ↑ BAYRAKTAR ARMED UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE. www.ssb.gov.tr, accessed on June 29, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Monitor.com: Turkeys Drones ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Milliyet.com:Son dakika… El Bab'ın kalbine girildi! (Turkish)
- ↑ Jeremy Binnie: Russia claims Pantsyr-S1s in Syria have shot down foreign UAVs. (No longer available online.) In: IHS Jane's 360 . August 30, 2017, archived from the original on August 30, 2017 ; accessed on August 31, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Mariya Petkova: Turkish drones - a 'game changer' in Idlib aljazeera.net from March 3, 2020
- ↑ Volker Pabst in NZZ : Turkey has become a secret drone superpower Article from March 11, 2020 (accessed on March 15, 2020).
- ↑ Florian Rötzer: Ukraine is buying Turkish combat drones. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Alex Gatopoulos: 'Largest drone war in the world': How airpower saved Tripoli. In: aljazeera.com. May 28, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Haftar's Pantsir System Shoots Down Libyan Army's Bayraktar TB2 Drone. In: defenseworld.net. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Harro Ranter: ASN Aircraft accident Antonov An-26 registration unknown Tarhuna. In: aviation-safety.net. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .