First in the world ! Turkey successful shooting accurately new cruise missile from UCAV Akinci

Turkish UCAV AKINCI, success fires Roketsan-made Cakır mini cruise missile in global 1st.

The missile was deployed at an altitude of 7,000 meters, marking its inaugural flight with the indigenous turbojet engine KALE KTJ-1750.

Ismail Demir said, the missile was fired with an engine whose critical components were domestic, and hit the target with pinpoint accuracy.

Roketsan as the produsen. unveils the Cakir, a cruise missile with an over 150 km range that can be launched from land, naval, and air platforms. It is fitted with a 70 kg high-explosive semi-piercing blast fragmentation thermobaric warhead that, according to the company, makes it effective against multiple types of targets such as surface land and coastal targets.

When launched from surface platforms, the Cakir is fitted with a solid fuel booster weighing around 55 kg, which brings its weight close to 330 kg. The weight of the missile is 275 kg, which corresponds to that of the air launched version. With booster, the Cakir is 4.1 meters long, the missile having a 275 mm diameter, the air-launched version without booster being 3.2 meters long. Lift is provided by two sets of cruciform wings while a set of cruciform actuators ensures manoeuvrability. The Cakir speed is comprised between Mach 0.75 and 0.85, propulsion being provided by the KTJ-1750 turbojet engine providing a 1,750 N thrust, designed and produced by Kale ARGE in Turkey.

As we know, Kale R&D and Roketsan, signed an agreement regarding the KTJ-1750 turbojet engine to be integrated onto CAKIR, a cruise missile that is being developed by the later company. The signing ceremony took place on 31 March during a press meeting in Roketsan’s Lalahan facilities.

Murat ikinci, CEO of Roketsan, and Osman Okyay, Vice Chairman of the Board of Kale Group, signed the National Turbojet Engine Development agreement, and the ceremony was honoured by Professor Doktor ismail Demir, President of Defence Industries and Professor Doktor Faruk Yigit, Vice President of Defence Industries and Chairman of the Board of Roketsan. The agreement covers the development and delivery of KTJ-1750 turbojet engine to be used in CAKIR.

To cope with GNSS-denies scenarios, the Cakir is guided towards the target by multiple navigation systems, that of course include GNSS with anti-jam capability to which Roketsan added an inertial navigation system, radar and barometric altimeters, and a terrain-referenced navigation system. The Cakir mission is programmed via 3D waypoints, a network-based data link ensuring man-in-the-Loop capability for target update, attack-re-attack for in-flight target of opportunity, as well as mission abort. In the final phase on-board seekers will ensure pinpoint accuracy, the Roketsan missile can be fitted with infrared and-or radar seekers.

The data link also allows inter-missiles communications, which give the Cakir swarming capabilities, ensuring maximum effectiveness through enemy defence saturation. The missile survivability is enhanced by the use of radar absorbing material on the airframe, as well by its super sea-skimming and terrain masking mission profiles.

The cruise missile can be launched by fixed and rotary wing aircraft, UCAV, according to Roketsan a MALE-class airframe can carry up to four missiles, AUSV, as well as tactical wheeled Land Vehicles, a 6×6 platforms typically carrying four missiles, while bigger 8×8 vehicles can carry up to six.

The missile is now fully developed, system level tests being scheduled before year end.

While Bayraktar AKINCIı, as the carrying platform the missile, is a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) being manufactured by the Turkish defence company Baykar. The first three units entered service with the Turkish Armed Forces on 29 August 2021.
With the preliminary design phase completed in June 2019, AKINCI started engine ground run in August 2019, with a Ukrainian turboprop engine Ivchenko-Progress AI-450C. First engine test was accomplished on September 1 2019. Following the completion of other technical tests, the aircraft was moved to the Turkish Army's Corlu Airfield Command. The UCAV made its maiden flight with automatic taxiing, take-off, 16-minute flight and successful landing on December 2019.

AKINCI has 881 lb internal, and 2,094 lb external payload capacity, combining the overall combat load to max 2,976 lb. large 66 ft wingspan, ensures 5.5 tons of maximum takeoff weight.

On 22 April 2021, Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV has successfully conducted its first firing tests. During the test Akıncı was equipped with three different variants of the indigenously developed smart ammunitions, MAM-L, MAM-C and MAM-T. The test has also been the first public appearance of the Roketsan's newest smart ammunition MAM-T. The aircraft..............

[kemalyilmaz]

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Hedef kizil elma❤❤❤❤

[SixBarrel]

Terminator Is around the corner, the fighter Pilots become obsolets .

[tabuiakazeem]

Impressive piece of advanced weapon .
Keep it up
Keep rolling
Don't stop until no nation can reach your stage

[ashley]

for Gogs sake can you do some to pronounce the name of the rocket properly the c in yurkish language in this case has the sh sound like in ship