Air Forces

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Naval Group, MESKO and TELESYSTEM Sign Agreement to Integrate Piorun MANPADS onto Rampart Naval Launcher

Naval Group, MESKO and TELESYSTEM Sign Agreement to Integrate Piorun MANPADS onto Rampart Naval Launcher

Naval Group, Polish defense manufacturer MESKO and integration specialist TELESYSTEM signed an agreement on June 19, 2026 to conduct sea firing trials demonstrating MESKO's Piorun...

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Anduril Wins Production Contract for FQ-44 Fury: USAF Picks Autonomous Wingman for Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

Anduril Wins Production Contract for FQ-44 Fury: USAF Picks Autonomous Wingman for Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Anduril a production contract for the FQ-44 Fury as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Increment 1 winner, the company...

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Baykar’s Bayraktar Mini: The Drone That Started It All for Turkey

Baykar’s Bayraktar Mini: The Drone That Started It All for Turkey

Before the TB2 became a global phenomenon, before AKINCI set high-altitude records, there was the Bayraktar Mini — Turkey's first fully indigenous mini UAV system....

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Baykar’s KEMANKEŞ 1: Turkey’s AI-Guided Mini Cruise Missile Arrives

Baykar’s KEMANKEŞ 1: Turkey’s AI-Guided Mini Cruise Missile Arrives

KEMANKEŞ 1 is Baykar's answer to a recurring problem in UCAV operations: how to extend a drone's strike range beyond its air-defense exposure zone. At...

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Baykar’s KALKAN VTOL: The Hybrid Drone Redefining Tactical Reconnaissance

Baykar’s KALKAN VTOL: The Hybrid Drone Redefining Tactical Reconnaissance

Baykar's KALKAN — also referred to as DIHA in its technical designation — is a hybrid VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) drone that pairs electric...

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Baykar’s Bayraktar KIZILELMA: Turkey’s Unmanned Fighter Jet Takes Shape

Baykar’s Bayraktar KIZILELMA: Turkey’s Unmanned Fighter Jet Takes Shape

Baykar's Bayraktar KIZILELMA — "Red Apple" in Turkish — is the company's most audacious project yet: a turbofan-powered, low-RCS unmanned combat aircraft that can operate...

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Baykar’s Bayraktar TB3: The Carrier-Capable UCAV Raising the Stakes at Sea

Baykar’s Bayraktar TB3: The Carrier-Capable UCAV Raising the Stakes at Sea

Baykar's Bayraktar TB3 takes everything that made the TB2 a battlefield phenomenon and adds one transformative capability: the ability to operate from short-runway aircraft carriers....

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Baykar’s Bayraktar AKINCI: Turkey’s High-Altitude Hunter Reaches for Air Superiority

Baykar’s Bayraktar AKINCI: Turkey’s High-Altitude Hunter Reaches for Air Superiority

If TB2 put Turkey on the drone map, AKINCI is Baykar's statement that it intends to stay — and move up. Weighing six metric tons...