Bayraktar TB2

Bayraktar TB2[1] is a Turkish-made drone.

It is a Turkish-made medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which has ability to be remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations. The UAV made in 2014. It is manufactured by the Turkish company Baykar Company, mainly produced for the Turkish Armed Forces.[1][2][3] The credit for the development of the UAV has been given to Selçuk Bayraktar.[4]

TB2 drone had globally passed 400,000 flight hours in 2021.[5][6] Even though the main user is the Turkish Army, TB2 also sold to the other countries like Azerbaijan, Poland, Libya and more.[7][8] Bayraktar TB2 has a big operational past since its production, the biggest examples are the attacks on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and People's Protection Units (YPG/SDF) targets in Iraq and Syria.[9][10][11][12] TB2 also used by armies during the other conflicts in the world like a number of other nations around the world, most likely Azerbaijan in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine,[13][14] as much as by the Ethiopian National Defense Force during the Tigray War and Government of National Accord during the Libyan civil war of 2014-2020.[15][16][17]

By 2023, 600 Bayraktar drone has been produced by Baykar company.[18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Léo PÉRIA-PEIGNÉ (17 April 2023). "TB2 Bayraktar Big Strategy for a Little Drone" (PDF). Institut français des relations internationales. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2025. Baykar Makina's TB2 Bayraktar–meaning "standard-bearer" in Turkish–...
  2. ↑ Brandon J. Weichert (8 January 2025). "Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 Drone is a Sky Demon". The National Interest. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  3. ↑ "Bayraktar TB2". Military Factory. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Baykar İnsansız Hava Aracı Sistemleri | Selçuk Bayraktar". Baykarsavunma.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  5. ↑ BAYKAR [@BaykarTech] (26 November 2021). "#BayraktarTB2 UAV has successfully completed 400,000 flight hours!" (Tweet). Retrieved 26 November 2021 – via Twitter.
  6. ↑ "Bayraktar TB2 SİHA'dan 400 bin uçuş saati". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 26 November 2021.
  7. ↑ "How drones are changing the game". Israel National News. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Droning On in the Middle East". American Purpose. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drones enable swift, precise victory against YPG/PKK in Syria's Afrin". Daily Sabah. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  10. ↑ Gatopoulos, Alex (2 March 2020). "Syria's War News: Battle for Idlib: Turkey's drones and a new way of war". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  11. ↑ Crino, Scott; Dreby, Andy (16 April 2020). "Turkey's Drone War in Syria – A Red Team View". Small Wars Journal.
  12. ↑ Sabbagh, Dan; McKernan, Bethan (27 November 2019). "Revealed: how UK technology fuelled Turkey's rise to global drone power". The Guardian.
  13. ↑ "Ukraine credits Turkish drones with eviscerating Russian tanks and armor in their first use in a major conflict". Business Insider. 28 February 2022.
  14. ↑ Gatopoulos, Alex. "The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is ushering in a new age of warfare". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "Turkish Drones Join Ethiopia's war, Satellite Imagery Confirms – Peace Organization PAX". paxforpeace.nl. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  16. ↑ Bearak, Max; Kelly, Meg; Lee, Joyce Sohyun. "How Ethiopia used a Turkish drone in a strike that killed nearly 60 civilians". Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  17. ↑ "Ethiopia Shows Off Combat Drones at Military Ceremony". The Defense Post. 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  18. ↑ Bayraktar TB2'deki SATCOM detayı dikkatinizi çekti mi? (in Turkish)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.