Facts

• Company: Baykar
• Product type: UAV
• Status: commercial
• Website: https://baykartech.com/en/uav/bayraktar-akinci/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Supply / Components
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Bayraktar AKINCI is Baykar twin-engine unmanned combat aircraft for long-endurance strategic missions. It is built for ISTAR, strike and maritime roles, carrying larger payloads than the TB2 and operating across land and sea mission sets.

Overview

Bayraktar AKINCI is Baykar twin-engine unmanned combat aircraft for long-endurance strategic missions. It is built for ISTAR, strike and maritime roles, carrying larger payloads than the TB2 and operating across land and sea mission sets.

Market context

Bayraktar AKINCI is a twin-engine UCAV developed by Baykar for high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned missions.

• Target environment: Defence operational environments including forward operating bases and contested airspace.
• Workflow context: Strategic intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, armed strike and maritime patrol missions with multi-payload capability.
• Customer context: Defence customers including national militaries requiring heavier UCAV capability.
• Deployment model: Deployed defence product with active military procurement and operational use.
• Commercial maturity: Deployed UCAV platform with growing defence procurement and international export.
• Adoption constraints: Defence procurement cycles, export controls and integration with existing command structures.
• Market position: Baykar's move from tactical MALE drones into heavier strategic UCAV operations. Complements the Bayraktar TB2 as a higher-capability platform.
• Adjacent products: Bayraktar TB2, strategic UCAV systems

Audience

Defense

Workflow

Strategic intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, armed strike and maritime patrol missions with multi-payload capability.

Capability

Remote operation

Deployment environment

Defence operational environments including forward operating bases and contested airspace.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Defense
• Workflow: Strategic intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, armed strike and maritime patrol missions with multi-payload capability.
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment environment: Defence operational environments including forward operating bases and contested airspace.

Specifications

• Communication: LOS and BLOS communication
• Range: 6,000 km operational range
• Endurance: 24+ hours
• Speed: 150 to 240 KTAS maximum cruise speed
• Max Takeoff Weight: 6,000 kg MTOW
• Payload Capacity: 1,500 kg
• Launch Recovery: Autonomous takeoff, landing, cruise, and taxi
• Propulsion: 2 x 450 hp / 2 x 750 hp / 2 x 850 hp twin turboprop
• Payload Options: Simultaneous EO/IR/LD, multi-mode AESA radar, SIGINT, laser-guided munitions, missiles, and long-range weapons
• Task Scope: ISR, strike, and long-range unmanned combat missions
• Ceiling: 12,192 m / 40,000 ft service ceiling; 9,144 m / 30,000 ft operational altitude

Tags

• Peer Group: Tactical ISR UAV
• Workflow: Drone ISR
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment Environment: Defence operational environment
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Deployed platform
• Market Signal: Defence procurement signal

Timeline / Research

• 2025-03-11 - Capability - Bayraktar AKINCI surpasses 100,000 flight hours - Baykar reported that Bayraktar AKINCI surpassed 100,000 flight hours.
• 2024-05-07 - Capability - Bayraktar AKINCI hits moving and fixed naval targets in firing tests - Baykar said Bayraktar AKINCI successfully completed firing tests against moving and fixed targets at sea.

Supply / Components

• Bayraktar AKINCI - Smart Micro Munition - Manufacturing - Roketsan - Roketsan MAM-T, MAM-C, and MAM-L smart micro munitions are integrated on Baykar Bayraktar AKINCI - source: roketsan.com.tr
• Bayraktar AKINCI - Turboprop Engine - Power Systems - Ivchenko-Progress - Ivchenko-Progress turboprop engines are used on Baykar Bayraktar AKINCI unmanned combat aircraft - source: baykartech.com

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