ANKA UAVs will detect mines! -SDN

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Defense Industry President İsmail Demir announced that an unspecified number of ANKA UAVs in the inventory of the Turkish Naval Forces have been provided with mine search and detection capabilities, in a post he shared on his social media accounts today. Here are the details…


The Navy took delivery of the new ANKA and AKSUNGUR UAVs!

Defense Industry Presidency announced in a post that the Naval Forces Command bought 2 ANKA-S and one AKSUNGUR.

ANKA UAVs will detect mines coming from Ukraine!

İsmail Demir, in his share, stated that an integration study was carried out for ANKA UAVs for SAR-Synthetic Aperture Radars and the result was quite successful. In this way, he said that it will be used in the detection of mines that Ukraine has placed on the Odessa coast against the Russians and that spontaneously break (!) and reach the straits.

ANKA-S with satellite control

In the post shared on Twitter, which you can see below, we understand that this integration work was carried out on the first version of ANKA UAV, that is, without satellite control. It is also estimated that ASELSAN, Meteksan Defense and TUSAŞ are working together.

What is synthetic range radar (SAR)?

synthetic range radar or in short EVILIt is a type of radar that electronically combines the images collected by more than one small radar to obtain a higher resolution compared to the image normally obtained by a single larger unit. It is widely used in the fields of remote sensing, oil exploration and mining as well as the military.

ANKA features

  • autonomous flight control system
  • Automatic take-off and landing system
  • High speed data connection
  • Landing on emergency avenues
  • anti-icing ability
  • Radar: Aselsan Sar
  • Wingspan: 17.5m
  • Length: 8.6m
  • Height: 3.25m
  • Maximum speed: 217 km/h (117 knots, 135 mph)
  • Airtime: 30+ hours
  • Total Takeoff Weight: 1.500 kg
  • Useful load capacity: 350+ kg
  • Maximum altitude: 30,000 ft.
  • Antenna range: 250+km
  • ANKA-S comes with satellite connection (can be controlled from anywhere in the world)

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