Turkey, which has made impressive moves in the defense industry with domestic and national moves in the recent period, is getting ready to gain a new effective power. TUSAŞ General Manager Temel Kotil announced on his Twitter account that the ANKA-3 Combat Unmanned Aircraft System is preparing for the first flight. After the National Combat Aircraft and HürJet taxi, the news of ANKA-3 made us proud.
ANKA-3 Combat Unmanned Aircraft System developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries was displayed for the first time.
TAI General Manager Temel Kotil announced the first visual of ANKA-3, which will be Turkey’s new deterrent force in the sky, with a post on his Twitter account.
In his post, Kotil said, “We kept our promise to our nation in the Century of Turkey. MMU and HÜRJET taxied, ATAK 2 will start the engine soon, and ANKA 3 will take its first flight. We present our products, which we have created with thousands of colleagues and business partners, to our Çanakkale martyrs.”
Temel Kotil said in a previous statement, “When you remove the tail of the plane, you eliminate the place where the radio waves will reflect. Without a tail, it does not go. It is difficult to do without a tail. When the tail is gone, the stability of the plane deteriorates. We made a small model of it and flew it. The pilot fires his own missile, and the missile of the unmanned aircraft that goes next to him. That’s why ANKA 3 is being made for this purpose. It will be March or April. We have a promise. We are working to death. There is a great gain, a serious number of engineers have been trained. A lot of people have grown up in this hasty hurry. People are the biggest success. Turkey is currently TUSAŞ He brought in 6000 engineers. If you have trained people, you can do everything. How did Germany recover, it had people, we gained people,” he said.
Engine start expected in April 2023
ANKA-3, in the form of a flying wing developed with domestic resources, is expected to make its first flight this year. In the shared photo, it is seen that there are 2 Supersonic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at the external weapon stations of ANKA-3.
ANKA-3 is expected to start taxiing by starting the engine around April 2023 and to make its first flight in the middle of the year.
ANKA-3, which has a speed of about 0.7 mach (800 km/h) and a take-off weight of up to 7 tons, and a high payload capacity with its under-wing weapon stations, will have a very important place in showing Turkey’s position in the new generation unmanned aerial vehicles.
With ANKA-3, reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence gathering, air-to-ground attack with national ammunition, hunting enemy helicopters, planes and UAVs with air-air ammunition, neutralizing enemy radar and air defense systems with low radar trace (stealth ucav). can take place.
ANKA-3 MIUS features
-Jet engine
-Weighs 7 tons
-0.7 mach (800 km/h) speed
-Low radar signature
-Able to perform air-ground, air-air tasks.
In addition, it is stated that the ANKA-3 jet-powered UAV, developed on the ANKA unmanned aerial vehicle platform, will have a low radar trace due to the absence of any horizontal and vertical stabilization in the tail design and the weapon station in the fuselage.
ANKA-3, which has a speed of about 0.7 mach (800 km/h) and a take-off weight of up to 7 tons, and a high payload capacity with its under-wing weapon stations, will have a very important place in showing Turkey’s position in the new generation unmanned aerial vehicles.
