On the website of the prestigious magazine in the field of defense, the test flight of KIZILELMA was announced with the headline "The unmanned warplane of Turkey's future made its first flight".
'The drone is expected to be the air force backbone of the Turkish Navy's future flagship, LHD Anadolu.'' the report stated.
The magazine praised the speed of Baykar's KIZILELMA project by saying: ''The jet moved from prototype to maiden flight within ten months.''
In the news, details such as the unmanned fighter aircraft project introduced by Baykar in the summer of 2021, being seen on the assembly line in March 2022 and the first engine integration test for the unmanned jet was carried out in September 2022, were also shared.
In the news pointing out that KIZILELMA is a special project that Baykar has been working on for more than 10 years with its own means, features such as ammunition carrying capacity, flight altitude and speed were recorded.
Newsweek and Forbes magazines broadcasting in the U.S. also included news highlighting the success of the KIZILELMA project last week.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA project, which Türkiye-based defense company Baykar set out with one hundred percent equity capital, started in 2021.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA, with the tail number of TC-ÖZB, which came off the production line on November 14, was transferred to Akıncı Flight Training and Test Center in Çorlu.
After a month of tests there, it made its maiden flight in a record time of about a year since the beginning of the project.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA will be a platform that will revolutionize the battlefield with its landing and take-off capability, especially for ships with short runways.
