Facts

• Company: Baykar
• Product type: UAV
• Status: commercial
• Website: https://baykartech.com/en/uav/bayraktar-tb2/

Profile sections

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

Summary

Bayraktar TB2 is Baykar medium-altitude long-endurance armed UAV for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions. It combines autonomous taxi, takeoff, cruise and landing with sensor fusion and triple-redundant autopilot architecture.

Overview

Bayraktar TB2 is Baykar medium-altitude long-endurance armed UAV for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions. It combines autonomous taxi, takeoff, cruise and landing with sensor fusion and triple-redundant autopilot architecture.

Market context

Bayraktar TB2 is a tactical MALE UAS developed by Baykar for remotely piloted and autonomous missions.

• Target environment: Military airspace, border areas, maritime patrol zones and tactical operating environments.
• Workflow context: Persistent ISR, target acquisition, tactical reconnaissance and precision strike support.
• Deployment model: Defence UAV system operated by military and government customers.
• Commercial maturity: Mature exported defence UAV with extensive operational use across multiple countries.
• Adoption constraints: Requires ground control infrastructure, operator training, weapons authorization where armed, airspace coordination and sustainment support.
• Market position: One of the most widely recognized tactical MALE UAV systems in modern defence markets.
• Adjacent products: Tactical MALE UAV for reconnaissance, surveillance and combat-support missions.

Audience

Defense

Workflow

Persistent ISR, target acquisition, tactical reconnaissance and precision strike support.

Capability

Remote operation

Deployment environment

Military airspace, border areas, maritime patrol zones and tactical operating environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Defense
• Workflow: Persistent ISR, target acquisition, tactical reconnaissance and precision strike support.
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment environment: Military airspace, border areas, maritime patrol zones and tactical operating environments.

Specifications

• Ceiling: 6,706 m / 22,000 ft service ceiling; 4,877 m / 16,000 ft operational altitude
• Communication: LOS and BLOS communication
• Endurance: 20+ hours
• Speed: 90 to 110 KTAS maximum travel speed
• Max Takeoff Weight: 700 kg MTOW
• Payload Capacity: 150 kg
• Launch Recovery: Autonomous takeoff, landing, cruise, and taxi
• Propulsion: 100 hp internal combustion engine
• Payload Options: Simultaneous EO/IR/LD or surveillance radar payload; laser-guided, INS/GPS-guided, IR-guided munitions and mini cruise missiles
• Task Scope: ISR and armed mission operations

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

• 2026-04-24 - Product Launch - Baykar unveils K2 Kamikaze UAV and Sivrisinek loitering munition swarm concept - Baykar demonstrated the K2 Kamikaze UAV and Sivrisinek loitering munition in a swarm flight before their pla…
• 2025-02-22 - Product Launch - Baykar flies turbo-engine Bayraktar TB2T-AI UCAV - Baykar announced the first flight of Bayraktar TB2T-AI, a turbo-engine and AI-enabled variant of the Bayraktar TB2 UCAV.
• 2024-09-11 - Capability - First Bayraktar TB2 airframe retires after more than 10,000 flight hours - Baykar retired the first Bayraktar TB2 airframe to enter service after it surpassed 10,000 flight hours.
• 2021-01-25 - Research Publication - UNMANNED IMPACT AVIATION COMPLEX TASKS «BAYRAKTAR TB2» - The article addresses operational tasks for the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aviation complex.

Supply / Components

• Bayraktar TB2 - Euroflir Optronic System For Tb2 - Perception - Safran Electronics & Defense - Safran Electronics & Defense Euroflir optronic systems and navigation technologies are being integrated on Baykar TB2 drones…
• Bayraktar TB2 - Eo Ir Payload - Perception - Aselsan - Aselsan CATS EO/IR payloads are used as domestic sensor payloads on Bayraktar TB2 UAVs after the Wescam export cutoff - source: international.gc.ca
• Bayraktar TB2 - Smart Micro Munition - Manufacturing - Roketsan - Roketsan MAM-C and MAM-L smart micro munitions are integrated on the Bayraktar TB2 strike payload stack - source: baykartech.com

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