Bayraktar Mini UAV
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TurkeyManufacturer: Baykar
Portable Mini UAV developed by Baykar: the first military drone designed in Turkey, it won the Turkish Army tender in 2007 against Israeli and US competitors.
Portable Mini UAV developed by Baykar: the first military drone designed in Turkey, it won the Turkish Army tender in 2007 against Israeli and US competitors.
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Identity
- Designation
- Bayraktar Mini UAV
- Alias
- Bayraktar Mini İHA
- Manufacturer
- Baykar
- Country
- Turkey
- Year
- 2007
- Category
- ISR (Reconnaissance)
- Class
- Mini (< 2 kg)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 20 km
- Endurance
- 1 h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 3,500 m
- Propulsion
- Elettrico, elica spintore
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 4.5 kg
- Payload
- 0.5 kg
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- EO/IR day-night gimbal
- Datalink / control
- Datalink LOS criptato
- Launch
- Lancio a mano
- Recovery
- Paracadute / atterraggio profondo
Combat use
- ▸Anti-PKK operations in south-eastern Turkey (2007-present)
- ▸Border security along the Syrian frontier (2014-present)
- ▸Supplied to Ukraine as a portable ISR drone (from 2022)
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History
Designed by brothers Selçuk and Haluk Bayraktar, the Mini UAV is the first fully Turkish UAV system to enter operational service with the armed forces.
Its victory in the 2007 TSK tender laid the industrial foundations for Baykar's later rise with the Bayraktar TB2.
On the development side, the Bayraktar Mini UAV is the first military drone fully designed and built in Turkey: its 2007 TSK tender victory against Elbit (Israel) and AAI (USA) broke Turkey's reliance on foreign suppliers and laid the industrial foundations of the Bayraktar family.
Designed by brothers Selçuk and Haluk Bayraktar, it introduced the portable mini-UAV concept to the Turkish infantry, with a modular architecture for platoon- and company-level ISR missions.
Over 1,000 units have been produced and fielded by Turkish special forces and gendarmerie in counter-insurgency operations against the PKK in south-eastern Anatolia.