Akinci & Aksungur and Turkish Unmanned Fighter Aircraft Program

[AKINCI]

Turkey's 1st MALE UAV Makes Test Flight

ANKARA - Turkey's first medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV made its first test flight Dec. 31.

Dubbed the ANKA, the 600-kilogram URL]

wrong 1600 kg.

 

[[TR]AHMET]

great specs.. but I wish Range was more than 150.. probably nearing 500Km. Possible?

Karayel is a Tactic UAV. 150 km is nice range

 

[[TR]AHMET]

TAI officials said the ANKA would eventually fly up to 23,000 feet for 23 hours.

This is wrong information, offical features are as follows.

TURKISH AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES INC.

 

[altor]

Update: TAI’s Anka UAV continues ground tests

TAI Anka unmanned aerial vehicle during a test flight without its Aselsan-built FLIR system.

Turkish Aerospace Indurstry’s (TAI) first MALE (medium altitute-long indurance) class unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) “Anka” completed its maiden flight on December 30, 2010 in Sivrihisar. According to reports by well-placed TRDEFENCE sources, this first flight lasted for 14 minutes and was generally deemed successful.

This much celebrated flight’s one and only mishap, however, apperantly took place during the first actual runway landing of the Anka UAV.

Sources within TAI reported that a sudden and unexpected loss of propulsion, only seconds before touch down of the landing gear, might have subjected the aircraft to more shock than the landing system’s suspension mechanism was designed to handle. Technicians insist that the damage was minor and the flight was still considered a success because the reported near “crash” landing happened within allowed parameters of decend per second.

No critical parts were damaged and the hull of the aircraft, weighting well over a ton, remains intact and capable of further flights.

With the exception of the engine from Germany, Anka was fully designed and manufactured by TAI to meet the Turkish and allied forces’ requirement for strategic reconnaissance capability that require bigger unmanned aircraft that feature heavy payloads and long loiter time over enemy territory.

TAI’s sister company, TEI, is currently working on an indigenous Turkish engine to power the Anka and other similar platforms in the near future.

TAI plans to equip the aircraft by August 2011 with Aselsan’s AselFLIR 300T electrooptics complex for infrared surveillance and mobile target designation capability and a miniature SAR radar developed by the same company. These two instruments will constitute the main standard payload of the aircraft.

Anka is capable of flying at an altitude of 10 kilometers with an endurance of 24 hours, giving the aircraft a superior loiter time beyond the reach of most short to medium altitude defence guns and missiles.

Deliveries to Turkish Armed Forces will start in the first quarter of 2012.

TAI plans to also capitalize on export prospects to certain Caspian and Middle Eastern countries.

TRDEFENCE

 

[AKINCI]

A German made engine has been using on tests of first prototype. Indigenous engine is coming for ANKA in August.

 

[Faheka]

Turkey’s Anka Male UAV has begun its flight test programme following a maiden flight undertaken on 30 December.

TAI is developing the type to answer a requirement of the Turkish armed forces, but it is also to be offered for export.

TAI (Hall 10, Stand A12) received a development contract in December 2004 under the TIHA (tactical UAV) programme, and the first Anka air vehicle was rolled out in July. It has a 1,600kg maximum take-off weight, with a 500kg fuel load and 200kg payload capacity. In prototype form, at least, it is powered by a 116kW Thielert heavy fuel engine.

TAI has funding to provide a complete Anka prototype system. IOC with the Aselsan Aselfir 300T EO/IR payload is planned for later this year, and a full capability that adds an Aselsan SAR/ISAR/GMTI radar is scheduled for the end of 2012. The radar is in full development and will be flight-tested on the company’s manned Tracker platform.

Turkey plans to acquire 30 Anka systems to fulfil its medium-altitude/long endurance (MALE) UAV needs.

Each system comprises three air vehicles and associated ground elements, including a radar based automatic take-off and landing system with differential GPS back-up, ground control system and mobile imagery exploitation system. The system includes portable streamed imagery terminals that can be used by soldiers in the field.

Currently the air vehicle has a dual-redundant high-data rate line-of-sight datalink, but it has been designed with the option of accepting satcoms, as well as weaponry.

IDEX2011

 

[AKINCI]

Second flight test of Anka

 

[Saithan]

test flight was on 1½ hour. If all goes well I hope they'll proceed to some live weapon tests.

 

[Faheka]

 

[Archdemon]

test flight was on 1½ hour. If all goes well I hope they'll proceed to some live weapon tests.

If you haven't noticed the flight test so far were without any payload. Weapons are the most complex payload form, they inflict dynamic stresses on airframe, shift center of gravity change aerodynamic flow on release, you wont see anka with weapon for years, if at all.

 

[ovarel]

test flight was on 1½ hour. If all goes well I hope they'll proceed to some live weapon tests.

we will not test weapons because we havent produced an ucav..it will take time.

 

[AKINCI]

Already ANKA-B (armed version of anka) will produce on a completely different design, and it will be bigger than ANKA-A. There is not any payload on Anka because it could not land successfully yet. First time it made a hard landing, this time right gear didn't opened. All of other systems tested successfully and i hope it will land on third trial.

 

[khanz4996]

If you haven't noticed the flight test so far were without any payload. Weapons are the most complex payload form, they inflict dynamic stresses on airframe, shift center of gravity change aerodynamic flow on release, you wont see anka with weapon for years, if at all.

the same people used to say that pakistan cant devolp a nuke for 10 years in 1996 but pakistan tested it in 1998 thats the quality of turks as well they produce and manufacture weapons in a short space of time not like israel getting 10 billion from us per year but made heron in 10 years and turks made one within a year when u betrayed turks.turks and pakistani lon live 4eva

 

[Cerian]

the same people used to say that pakistan cant devolp a nuke for 10 years in 1996 but pakistan tested it in 1998 thats the quality of turks as well they produce and manufacture weapons in a short space of time not like israel getting 10 billion from us per year but made heron in 10 years and turks made one within a year when u betrayed turks.turks and pakistani lon live 4eva

Well not exactly, project was under way since 2004. Urgent needs of TuAF for to observe mountainous region of south eastern part of Turkey led to an agreement to buy Heron's which was signed in 2005.

 

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Image taken from Aselsan's prototype SAR radar, which will be integrated into Anka UAV