Bayraktar KIZILELMA successfully completes medium altitude system identification test
Bayraktar KIZILELMA's tests in the sky continue. In this context, Türkiye's first unmanned warplane made its third flight at the AKINCI Flight Training and Test Center in Çorlu, Tekirdağ.
- Turkey
- Published Date: 12:24 | 31 March 2023
- Modified Date: 12:40 | 31 March 2023
In the third flight conducted under the management of Baykar Chairman of the Board and Technology Leader Selçuk Bayraktar, Bayraktar KIZILELMA successfully completed the Medium Altitude System Identification Test by ascending to an altitude of 20 thousand feet.
Bayraktar AKINCI, accompanying the flight test, watched Bayraktar KIZILELMA in the sky with its camera.
Baykar Chairman of the Board and Technology Leader Selçuk Bayraktar made statements about the flight after the test was successfully completed.
"Bayraktar KIZILELMA has successfully completed the medium altitude system identification test. This was the third test we performed. From now on, many tests will continue as part of our development activities. Hopefully, at the beginning of 2024, we aim to start the mass production of KIZILELMA.'' Bayraktar said.
''In addition to this, we are preparing for the first flight of Bayraktar TB3, which will be the world's first SIHA capable of landing and taking off from ships with short runways, whose first flight we are eagerly awaiting. Good luck to all these developments for our country and our nation." he added.
Selçuk Bayraktar invited all of Türkiye to TEKNOFEST: "Bayraktar TB3 and Bayraktar KIZILELMA will hopefully meet our nation at TEKNOFEST, which will take place between April 27 and May 1 in Istanbul. We are waiting for our entire nation at TEKNOFEST, Istanbul, Atatürk Airport, which is the center of the National Technology Move, where the heart of technology beats."
Bayraktar KIZILELMA project, which Baykar set out with 100 percent equity capital, started in 2021.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA, with the tail number of TC-ÖZB, which came off the production line on November 14, 2022, was transferred to AKINCI Flight Training and Test Center in Çorlu.
After successfully completing the ground tests here, it made its first flight on 14 December 2022. Bayraktar KIZILELMA met with the sky in a record time like a year. It successfully completed the System Identification Test with its second flight on January 23, 2022.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA will be a platform that will revolutionize the battlefield with its landing and take-off capability, especially for ships with short runways.