Thanks to the rapid steps taken one after another in the field of aviation by domestic defense industry companies, Turkey became the world’s top UAV-SIHA seller in 2022. With each passing day, we hear that new tools and technologies are being developed. Finally, today, Turkey’s first unmanned stealth aircraft Anka-3 / MİUS, developed by TAI, performed a taxi test.
TAI Anka-3 / MİUS taxi test!
There is a specific route and plan that Turkey follows in the fields of aviation and defense industry. Undoubtedly, the most important ones here are Hürjet, which made its first flight yesterday, and MMU, which is expected to take off until the end of the year, since the project schedule has been moved forward by 2 years.
But there are also unmanned aerial vehicles, which is the other side of the coin. While these tools have a huge impact today, the future will be theirs. Here, too, the UAV, SİHA, TİHA and MIUS systems developed by Baykar and TAI stand out.
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Moreover, both companies have achieved great export success by proving themselves in the global market with all their products. The TUSAŞ Anka-3 / MIUS system, whose idea was laid 10 years ago, which has been developed and brought to the final stage for several years, and which is performing a taxi test today, will also be Turkey’s first unmanned stealth aircraft.
TAI Anka-3 / MIUS features:
- Max. take-off weight: 6.500 kg
- Payload capacity: 1.200 kg
- service altitude: 40 thousand feet
- Airtime: 10 hours at 30 thousand feet altitude
- cruising speed: 250 knots (463 km/h) / 0.42M – 30 thousand feet
- Top speed: 425 knots (787 km/h) / 0.7M – 30,000 feet
- Common avionics architecture and YKİ with Anka/Anka2
- low radar visibility
- High speed transfer
- High payload capacity
- LOS/ BLOS (satellite control)