Bayraktar Akıncı
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TurkeyManufacturer: Baykar
Twin-engine HALE UAV of top-tier performance: capable of 12,000 m altitude, 1.5 t weapons load and launching cruise missiles and air-to-air missiles, it is the first Turkish drone with genuine strategic capability.
Twin-engine HALE UAV of top-tier performance: capable of 12,000 m altitude, 1.5 t weapons load and launching cruise missiles and air-to-air missiles, it is the first Turkish drone with genuine strategic capability.
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Identity
- Designation
- Bayraktar Akıncı
- Alias
- Akıncı (Raider)
- Manufacturer
- Baykar
- Country
- Turkey
- Year
- 2021
- Category
- UCAV (Combat UAV)
- Class
- HALE (High-altitude / long-endurance)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 7500 km
- Endurance
- 24 h
- Top speed
- 361 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 12,200 m
- Propulsion
- 2 × turboelica AI-450T / TEI PD-222T, 450 hp ciascuno
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 6000 kg
- Payload
- 1500 kg
- Hardpoints
- 8
- Weapons
- SOM-A (cruise), MAM-L/T, Bozdoğan, Gökdoğan (AAM), Roketsan TRG-230, JDAM-class
- Unit cost
- 30 M USD
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- ASELSAN CATS EO/IR, radar AESA MURAD, SAR, SIGINT
- Datalink / control
- SATCOM Ku-band + LOS
- Launch
- Pista
- Recovery
- Pista
Production & inventory
- Annual production
- ≈ 24/anno (2024)
Combat use
- ▸Operations against PKK in northern Iraq (2022-present)
- ▸Intelligence operations in northern Syria
- ▸Anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq (Pençe-Kilit, 2022-present)
- ▸Intelligence operations in northern Syria
- ▸Pakistani demonstration operations along the Line of Control (Kashmir)
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History
Maiden flight in December 2019, operational service with the Turkish Air Force in August 2021. It was the first drone in the world to successfully launch a cruise missile from high altitude (SOM-A).
In March 2023, a Pakistani Akıncı set the world endurance record for propeller-driven UAVs with 25 h 46 min of continuous flight.
The Akıncı (Raider) is the most powerful twin-engine HALE drone ever built in Turkey: with its 6-tonne MTOW and 1,500 kg weapons payload, it bridges the gap between the tactical TB2 and the large US strategic UCAVs such as the MQ-9 Reaper.
Developed from 2018, it made its maiden flight in December 2019 and entered Turkish Air Force service in August 2021. It is the first drone in the world to integrate a national AESA radar (ASELSAN MURAD) and to successfully launch a SOM-A cruise missile from high altitude.
In March 2023 a Pakistani Akıncı set the world endurance record for propeller-driven UAVs with 25 h 46 min of continuous flight, showcasing the platform's strategic surveillance reach. The drone has been exported to Pakistan, Libya and Azerbaijan and signed for by Saudi Arabia in 2024.