25.02.2025 11:52
Turkey's first UAV, the Bayraktar TB2 with tail number J11, has successfully completed 10,000 flight hours in the inventory of the General Command of Gendarmerie.
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The aircraft with tail number J11 from the Bayraktar TB2 fleet, Turkey's first UAV, has successfully completed 10,000 flight hours in the inventory of the Gendarmerie General Command. The national UAV that has completed its mission will be used for training and test flights. A new Bayraktar TB2, produced by Baykar from the production line, has been gifted to the Gendarmerie General Command free of charge to replace the UAV that has been removed from the inventory.
The aircraft with tail number J11, part of the Bayraktar TB2 fleet, which has reached over 1 million hours of flight experience in the sky, transitioned to a new mission period after successfully completing 10,000 flight hours since its entry into the inventory in 2016.
868 SUCCESSFUL SORTIES
Since joining the inventory of the Gendarmerie General Command, the Bayraktar TB2 J11 UAV has successfully served in critical missions such as counter-terrorism, security and public order, border security, search and rescue, and protection of strategic infrastructures, completing 10,000 flight hours with 868 successful sorties. Baykar presented a certificate to the command in honor of the outstanding contributions of the national UAV with tail number J11 in the inventory of the Gendarmerie General Command.
BAYKAR GIFTED A NEW UAV
The Bayraktar TB2 UAV with tail number J11, which has completed its mission, will now be used as a training and test aircraft within Baykar. Baykar gifted a new Bayraktar TB2 with tail number J60, produced from the production line, to the Gendarmerie General Command free of charge to replace the UAV that has been removed from the inventory. The removed Bayraktar TB2 UAV played critical roles in 8,370 hours of counter-terrorism, 246 hours of combating smuggling and narcotics, 107 hours of monitoring social events, 1,012 hours of border security, 151 hours of search and rescue, and 114 hours of protecting strategic infrastructures. Bayraktar TB2 UAVs operate within the Turkish Armed Forces, National Intelligence Organization, Gendarmerie General Command, General Directorate of Security, Coast Guard Command, and the General Directorate of Forestry for combating forest fires.
HOLDER OF RECORDS
Bayraktar TB2, which holds significant records in our aviation history, broke the altitude record for Turkey in its class at 27,030 feet. The national UAV set another record by flying continuously for 27 hours and 3 minutes under challenging geographical and climatic conditions, such as high temperatures and sandstorms, during a demo flight in Kuwait on July 16, 2019.
A FIRST IN WORLD AVIATION: UAV PERFORMING A BARREL ROLL
The national UAV Bayraktar TB2, which has achieved firsts in Turkish aviation history, made its name in aviation history once again as the first and only UAV in the world to successfully perform an autonomous barrel roll maneuver during its test flights on May 31, 2024. The barrel roll, one of the important escape maneuvers of fighter jets, has never been successfully performed by any UAV in the world until now.
HERO OF KARABAKH
In addition to the critical roles that Bayraktar TB2 UAVs have undertaken in Turkey's fight against terrorism, they have also proven their superior performance in international operations. National UAVs operating in every corner of the world played a key role in ending the 30-year occupation of Karabakh, as well as in the wars in Libya, Ukraine, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
IN THE SKIES OF NATO AND EU COUNTRIES
The Bayraktar TB2 UAVs, developed by Baykar in a national and original manner, have managed to enter the inventories of countries around the world as a result of competitive processes in many locations. The Bayraktar TB2, which was the winner of the competitive process conducted by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense the previous year, signed an important export contract, surpassing American, European, and Chinese competitors. This success reinforced Baykar's global impact and further strengthened its presence in NATO and EU countries in 2024. Thanks to the agreement signed with Croatia on November 19, 2024, Bayraktar TB2 entered the inventories of 6 NATO member countries and 4 EU member countries.
FROM EARTHQUAKES TO FIGHTING FOREST FIRES
In addition to security duties, national UAVs also play an active role in civil missions such as disasters like earthquakes and floods, search and rescue operations, irregular migration monitoring, and combating forest fires. Bayraktar TB2 UAVs, which participated in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Elazığ Sivrice on January 24, 2020, flew for 2,417 hours and 6 minutes during the earthquakes that occurred on February 6, 2023, in Kahramanmaraş. In this context, a total of 42 Bayraktar TB2s, 8 of which were integrated with Baykar Rapid Mapping Pod, participated. In the fight against forest fires, 4,091 fires were detected and extinguished by Bayraktar TB2 UAVs before they could grow between 2020 and 2024.
EXPORT CHAMPION
Baykar, which has carried out all its projects with its own resources since the beginning, has obtained 83% of all its revenues from exports since the start of the UAV R&D process in 2003.
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In 2023, Baykar, which achieved an export of 1.8 billion dollars, ranked among the top 10 companies with the highest exports in all sectors in our country. As the largest company in the global unmanned aerial vehicle export market, Baykar continued its global success in 2024, achieving an export of 1.8 billion dollars by obtaining 90% of its revenue from exports.
HIGH TECHNOLOGY EXPORT TO 36 COUNTRIES
Baykar, which received the Export Champions Award, became the export leader in the defense and aviation sector according to the data from the Presidency of Defense Industries in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Having accounted for one-third of the sector's exports alone the previous year, Baykar is expected to carry Turkey to a leading position in the global UAV export market by achieving one-quarter of the total exports in the defense and aviation sector in 2024. Currently, 97.5% of the contracts signed by Baykar, the world's largest unmanned aerial vehicle company, are export-related. Export agreements have been signed with a total of 36 countries, including 34 countries for the Bayraktar TB2 UAV and 11 countries for the Bayraktar AKINCI TİHA.
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