TAI Şimşek HEDEF
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TurkeyManufacturer: Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI/TUSAŞ)
High-performance jet-powered aerial target that simulates fighters, cruise missiles and enemy drones for training Turkish and export SAM systems and fighters.
High-performance jet-powered aerial target that simulates fighters, cruise missiles and enemy drones for training Turkish and export SAM systems and fighters.
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Identity
- Designation
- TAI Şimşek HEDEF
- Alias
- ANKA Şimşek (target drone)
- Manufacturer
- Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI/TUSAŞ)
- Country
- Turkey
- Year
- 2012
- Category
- Loitering munition
- Class
- Small (< 25 kg)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 100 km
- Endurance
- 1 h
- Top speed
- 740 km/h (M 0.6)
- Service ceiling
- 4,500 m
- Propulsion
- Turbogetto miniatura TJ-50
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 70 kg
- Payload
- 15 kg
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- Pod RCS aumentato, simulatori radar/IR per addestramento
- Datalink / control
- Datalink LOS criptato, modalità autonoma waypoint
- Launch
- Catapulta pneumatica / rampa
- Recovery
- Paracadute
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History
Developed from 2009 and operational since 2012, Şimşek is the first fully Turkish-designed high-speed jet target.
Recent versions include armed HEDEF kamikaze variants, turning the target drone into a low-cost jet loitering munition.
Şimşek is the benchmark jet target drone for training Turkey's HİSAR and SİPER SAM systems and F-16 fighters: it simulates RCS, IR signatures and flight profiles of cruise missiles and low-altitude aircraft.
The armed HEDEF kamikaze variants, unveiled at TEKNOFEST 2022, turn Şimşek into a low-cost jet-powered loitering munition with 200+ km operational range.