Developed by Baykar, the domestic unmanned warplane-MİUS Bayraktar Kızılelma first cut a wheel from the ground and then made its first flight last December. Of course, as the prototype progresses, the questions in mind increase. For example, if Bayraktar Kızılelma is exported, can it be used against Turkey? Here are the details…
Can Bayraktar Kızılelma be used against TB2 and Akıncı Turkey?
Thanks to the experience gained in warships and planes that Turkey has procured from abroad for many years, it has realized how important it is to have its own software. Because even if you buy these tools, you cannot use them freely.
We saw the biggest example of this during the NATO exercise in 1992. The US aircraft carrier named USS Saratoga fired missiles targeting Turkey’s Muavenet and Kılıçalipaşa ships and the Spanish ship Numancia.
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Although there is no indication that the incident was done deliberately, it is not possible for this software to target allies and to fire missiles by locking on the target without going through the control of 6 different people and without the key approval of the commander.
Of course, although the Turkish ships, which were fired upon during the exercise, wanted to protect themselves, the software was helpless as it did not allow it to lock onto the US ships. If a similar situation had happened in the air, we would have seen that the F-16s could not assign radar locks to the US planes.
Turkey has also developed enough to sell many advanced vehicles such as UAV, SİHA, helicopter, ship and armored-tracked to its allies. But there were questions about whether they could one day be used against us. As a matter of fact, Baykar CTO Selçuk Bayraktar said that they have the software control of the products sold. In other words, these vehicles cannot take off from the ground unless Turkey wants to.
In the statement made by Selçuk Bayraktar, it was said:
“These are high-tech devices. All of them are equipped with high-end software. Only those who develop the technology can control these software.”
Bayraktar Kizilelma properties:
- Flight time/ Airborne time: 5 hours
- Maximum take-off weight: 6 tons
- operational altitude: 35 thousand feet
- Mission radius: 500 NM (nautical miles) / 900+ km
- Cruising speed: Mach 0.6 (may increase to Mach 0.8+ and Mach 1.2+ in the future)
- Payload capacity: 1500 kg (with internal weapon stations)
- High maneuverability
- Automatic take-off and landing
- Low radar signature
- SATCOM communication
- Take off from short-runway aircraft carriers
- Compatible with AESA radar
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