Baykar Technology

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Baykar is an engineering company that took steps towards producing unmanned aerial vehicles in the 2000s. Bayraktar Mini UAV was the first unmanned aerial system produced entirely with domestic capital, included in the Turkish Armed Forces inventory in 2007.

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Having launched R&D activities for this purpose, Baykar has realized pioneering productions in its field and by producing subsystems, it has achieved to provide technical support to Turkish national defence industry, as the latter has grown and started exporting weapons including Baykar drones.

Baykar’s portfolio of advanced UAVs includes Bayraktar Tactical UAS (Bayraktar TB1), Bayraktar TB2 UCAV, Bayraktar Akıncı UCAV. It is also developing a flying car (quadricopter) which it started testing in 2020. Haluk Bayraktar stated that Baykar is considering spending $1 billion in the development process of Bayraktar Kızılelma, a jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle.

In 2022 Baykar has announced plans to build a UAV factory in Ukraine and stated it is planning to use Ukrainian-made engines for its UAVs.