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This seems kind of pointless. Once you have a turbojet powered land attack missile that you can fire from outside the envelope of air defenses, why bother using a drone to fire it?

Gözde LGM capable against moving targets:


Siper LRSAM firing test:


Akkor APS firing test:


Tayfun BM test:


Cenk BM:

sequ said:

Gözde LGM capable against moving targets:

Siper LRSAM firing test:

Akkor APS firing test:

Tayfun BM test:

Cenk BM:

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Cenk seems to be an MRBM with a +1000km range and a maneuverable reentry vehicle. I'm surprised why there's no chatter about it considering such a capability has the potential to change the geo-strategic balance in the region.

gelgoog said:

This seems kind of pointless. Once you have a turbojet powered land attack missile that you can fire from outside the envelope of air defenses, why bother using a drone to fire it?

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Air attacks against targets in Iraq/Syria in peace time have been a heavy burden on TuAF's F-16 fleet. Considering how heavy every country in the region invests in Air Power, Turkey can't afford to lose any aircraft that can't be replaced.

TuAF's pivot towards advanced UAV based strikes is for saving airframe lives of F-16s until indigenous aircraft become available.

Other than that, every air to air capable asset is very critical in a wide spread conflict. Giving SEAD/DEAD as well as land and sea attack missions to UAVs enables more F-16 wings to commit to Combat Air Patrol.

gelgoog said:

This seems kind of pointless. Once you have a turbojet powered land attack missile that you can fire from outside the envelope of air defenses, why bother using a drone to fire it?

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As @CasualObserver said, Turkey is not one of those countries that can obtain and modify fighter aircraft whenever it wants. It has an aging fleet. Thus using domestically made aircraft like UAVs for as many missions as possible is important.

Short summary:

- The purpose of this prototype is to test the flyability (they already tested it with a smaller model)
- There are many countries, who want to develope this drone together with TAI (because it is not a well-known technology and hard to obtain)
- After this prototype, TAI will apply stealth features, like a hidden nozzle, RAM paint, etc.
- ANKA 3 will be a family of flying wing drones, there will be lighter and heavier versions, as well as a naval version (the idea of a naval version was known during the design phase)
- TAI has no problem to integrate different engines and sensors to ANKA 3 (a big plus for export)
- There will be a version with TOYGUN and AESA radar
- TAI can integrate all kind of sensors to ANKA 3, which they already have integrated to ANKA and AKSUNGUR
- Avionics are the same as in Anka and Aksungur but with different control law. Code is completely national.
- All systems including Anka and Aksungur have cooperative targeting/engagement with other platforms, manned and unmanned (including Kaan & Hurjet). Whole system is planned like this from the beginning.
- Two IWBs can hold 82/83 series bombs or similar, and maybe Cakir and similar. EWBs can hold 1 tonne. External SOM carriage may be possible.

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