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🇹🇷 Bayraktar Mini İHA
Air · Baykar (kökeni Kale-Baykar ortak girişimi) · 2007
Türkiye's first indigenous mini-class (reconnaissance) UAV to enter inventory — a hand-launched, electric, day/night camera mini-UAV carried in a soldier's backpack; Baykar's founding product.
Specifications
- Type: Mini, hand-launched, electric ISR (backpack system)
- Weight: ~4.5–5.8 kg (by version)
- Dimensions: Wingspan ~1.9–2.45 m · length ~1.2 m
- Range: ~15+ km (antenna/relay up to ~20 km)
- Endurance: ~60–100 min (by version)
- Ceiling: ~8,000–12,000 ft
- Payload: 2-axis gimbal; interchangeable day/night (thermal) camera
- Launch/recovery: Hand launch; parachute or belly landing; autonomous return on link loss
Beats: Manga/küçük-birlik seviyesinde anlık keşif-gözetleme, Ucuz ve çok sayıda, eğitimli operatörle yaygın kullanım
Loses to: Her türlü muharip rol (silahsız keşif), menzil/dayanma/ağır yük (mini sınıf sınırı)
Baykar's founding product (Selçuk Bayraktar's early mini-UAV work). Contract signed Oct 4, 2006 (first 19 aircraft), entered TAF inventory in Dec 2007. Türkiye's first indigenous mini-class reconnaissance UAV — not 'first indigenous UAV' since the target drone TAI Turna entered inventory in 2001, but first in the mini/ISR class. 300–500+ deliveries, tens of thousands of flight hours; first indigenous UAV export in 2012 (Qatar). Early program was a Kale-Baykar joint venture (both Turkish firms). Current version is Mini UAV D; specs vary by version (A/B/D).
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Baykar (kökeni Kale-Baykar ortak girişimi)): Bayraktar KIZILELMA, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Bayraktar TB3, Bayraktar KEMANKEŞ, K2 Kamikaze İHA, Sivrisinek, Bayraktar KALKAN
Related systems (Air): KAAN, ANKA-3, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM, ÇAKIR, MAM-L, MAM-T
