How did Turkey become an UAV superpower?

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In recent years, Turkey has proliferated as an international supplier of unmanned aerial vehicles. And their product roster is growing ever larger and more interesting. How did they manage to squeeze past the industry behemoths such as the US, Israel and China? Watch this video to learn more about it all.

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[sapphyrus]

We should also mention that Turkish companies like Roketsan producing relatively cheaper ammunition for these systems plays an important part in supplying a whole complete package for the buyers.

[ahmetturan]

Thank you USA and EU, without your embargos since 74 non of these would have been possible

[godofchaoskhorne]

Small correction. Even though TB2 for sure is the most selling Turkish drones. Turkey also sold numerous ANKA, Akıncı and other larger and more expensive systems to multiple countries. Just a day or two ago it sold a batch of Akıncı drones which have much higher payload capacity than the TB2 to Kazakistan

[bek]

Hello to every Turkic and Turkish brothers and sisters from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬. Turkic Union is close! Alga menin kardaşlarım! ❤🇹🇷

[Sayang-mu]

Akinchi drone design is so beautiful, it looks like eagle. I hope my country, Indonesia buy that drone. 😍

[wishwewere]

The fact that Europeans and Americans don't really trust Turkey nor see them as their own "People" pushed Turkey to be self sufficient and get ahead in fields it could realistically get ahead in.

[nathanruben-tvlf]

Turkiye is already under non written sanctions from west. They delay delivery of sold subsystems, they give too long delivery dates for new subsytems, ask horrendous prices, simply do not sell etc. For example, Italian company gave too long delivery dates and horrendous prices for Otomelara 76/62 Naval Gun for Turkish Istanbul finagates which impacted delivery dates of the ships. Turkiye took the risk and developped the guns itself. As soon as Turkiye started to developped the gun, the same company showed up with early delivery dates and the fraction of precious price. Turkiye of course showed no interets.

[nathanruben-tvlf]

Akıncı is the star of the Africa. It is being used in anti terror operations in Sahel. Because of that Mali, Burkino Faso were able to kick of France out which was faking anti terror operation.

[jondo]

As a Turk (with mainly Turkish but also Kurdish roots) I support every kind of collaboration between Türkiye and Ukraine 🇹🇷🇺🇦. Sure I also like that we get less dependent from other countries and that we are on our way to replace the motors with our own ones but this doesn't mean that we can't further cooperate at other fields. Ukraine is among the more loyal countries out there, they don't stab you in the back like other "allies". I knew that they would make it hard for the Russians and that the Russians did a miscalculation (they started to believe their own propaganda lol) but the Ukrainians even surpassed my expectations with their defense.

[sebresludolf]

*Love and respect to Türkiye from Bangladesh. Thanks for selling us TB2 drones 🇧🇩❤️🇹🇷 😘*

[AbdullahEl]

Necessity is the mother of all innovation. Good job Turkiye

[nenenindonu]

The Karabakh war of late 2020 was indeed the career peak for the TB-2 drones. The most efficient and worthy performance to this day 🇦🇿

[supertoroism]

One missing fact that there is an engine company called TEI(Turkish engine industries) which already produced and certified local engines for TAI Anka and Aksungur drones. They also built local engines for both Akıncı and Kızılelma drones but those engines are under certification tests. Kızılelma will enter service with local engines and 2nd version of Akıncı will replace does ukrainian engines with local ones but other engines will be on offer for the customer country so that they can decide either Ukrainian or Turkish engines. TEI even built engines for 6 to 10 tones class of helicopters and they are currently working on a stealth new generation engine to replace GE F110 engines which are used in both Turkish F16s and the first prototype of TF-X( so called MMU which means national fighter aircraft in Turkish.)

[jamesmcmichael]

This video is not just a great explanation of Turkey's UAVs, but also a great explanation of military UAVs.

[nikaawan]

Ohh yeah they aren't just making UAVs and Drones they are making corvettes, frigates, 5th generation fighter jet(1st prototype almost ready) helicopters, SAMS, AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS, Amunitions and what not...WE HAVE ALSO BOUGHT THEM AND THEY ALSO HELPED US UPGRADING OUR SUBMARINES....WE ARE GLAD THAT OUR BROTHERLY COUNTRY IS DOING WONDERS IN THE DEFENSE AREA....lots of love and respect from Pakistan 🇵🇰❣️🇹🇷❣️🇦🇿

[robinsonbratz]

Its been 2 months that this video has been released and Turkey introduced its new deep assault ghost drone Anka 3 :))))

[aktolgalbeylerbeyi]

The cost of the war vehicles that Bayraktar TB 2 has destroyed so far is 3.2 billion dollars.

[FENDI]

Turkey alone has more drones than the entirety of Europe combined! No country in Europe has a functional drone made in Europe that is combat ready

[GalaShare]

Okay, I read the comments. Despite all the criticism, the drone that destroyed the most military and armored units in the world belongs to Turkey. Now you understand why this video was made.

[mmad]

Lets count

1-) Anka-S ( Anka 1): to give coordinates and lazer pointing for the t129 attack I for the altitudes of t129 cant go near because of manpads so instead of loosing an attack helicopter we can easily point with Anka-S then helicopter can shoot without getting near to threat and it can also carry some weapons. It is rival of mq-1. Some models of it is linked to satallite some of them is using different communication device.

2-) Aksungur (Anka 2) : It can fly many many hours and can reach up to too high altitude that no drone can reach in real life. In theory they claim but cant do. This drone is very special for navy in two reasons it can carry light torpido, orka and can locate Submarines with a sonar which is made again by turkey

3-) Anka-3 : wingless design drone. It is expected to fly its first flight in late of 2023. It will be the rival of X47B drone. It has the duty of striking ground targets it will be mainly made about air to ground tasks

4-) Kargı : It is the rival of harpy. It can do whatever a harpy can do

5-) Şimşek : It is subsonic target drone for testing many air weapons. But it has an ability that can change the war which is to be seen as f16 in enemy radars. Think what can be done with this deception. First you can run their air defense system out
Second you can shoot a fighter while it is distracted with a fake f16

6-) tb2 : all i can say is it is the death of every ground vehicle
It is making a job of A-10. It has an artifical intelligence that provides a drone to come back to its base which suprised ukrainian

7-) tb3 : bigger and better. Desinged for the navy and aircraft carriers

8-) Akıncı : It is big brother of tb2 but it is very deadly because it can carry cruise missiles manpads air to air missile can shoot helicopters and big drones of enemy and has 9 stations with lots of weapons

9-) Kızılelma : stealth drone and it has the ability to make an air to air fight can carry air to air missiles cruise missiles

10-) bayraktar diha : it is a vtol drone that needs no pists to launch or take off. It is small and used for observing

11-) bayraktar mini iha : for observing of local military bases and small units

12-) boyga : drone that can carry mortar bombs on enemy. It is small and effective

13-) Kargu : self attack drone, kamikaze

14-) Karayel : ……

Last point, Everybody thinks that Türkiye is making 5th generation fighter but with kızılelma and Anka-3, Türkiye is making 6th generation fighter in silience. TF-X will fly with kızılelma and Anka-3. While kızılelma helps tfx for air combat Anka-3 will help with ground attacks.