Turkish Aerospace Industry delivers new radar equipped drone to Turkish Naval Forces

On August 24 2020, the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has supplied another ANKA a long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an automatic identification system and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), to the Turkish Naval Forces.

Turkish Navy received new Anka-S drone from TAI (Pic Source: Turkish Navy)

Task

The ANKA that can be deploy in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas with its SAR and camera load for surface reconnaissance and surveillance missions, can gather intelligence from a distant range and above clouds with its new radar system.

Features

The ANKA-S System is developed for day and night reconnaissance, surveillance, fixed/mobile target detection, identification, tracking and real-time image intelligence tasks. It can also under all-weather conditions. The ANKA-S System has a payload of 200 kg and an altitude of 30,000 feet and is capable of 24 hours of flight time.

Turkish Fleet

The UAV's fleet of the Turkish Naval Forces includes 110 Bayraktar TB2 drones domestically-produced by Turkey’s leading aviation company Baykar Makina, 4 ANKA drones and 10 Israeli Heron-TP UAVs.