Bayraktar TB-2 is ready for a new mission! 868 successful sorties, over 10 thousand flight hours...

Having reached over 1 million hours of flight experience in the skies, the first UCAV of Turkey, Bayraktar TB2, the aircraft with tail number J11, entered the inventory in 2016 and successfully completed 10 thousand hours of flight time, thus entering a new period of duty.

868 SUCCESSFUL SORTIES

Bayraktar TB2 J11 SİHA, which has been successfully serving in critical missions such as combating terrorism, security and public order, border security, search and rescue and protection of strategic infrastructures since the day it was added to the Gendarmerie General Command inventory, has completed 10,000 flight hours with 868 successful sorties. Baykar presented a certificate to the command in memory of the outstanding contributions of the national SİHA with tail number J11 to the Gendarmerie General Command inventory.

BAYKAR PRESENTED A NEW SIHA

Having completed its mission, Bayraktar TB2 SİHA with tail number J11 will now be used as a training and test aircraft within Baykar. Baykar presented a new Bayraktar TB2 with tail number J60, which came off the production line, to the Gendarmerie General Command free of charge, instead of the SİHA that completed this important mission. Bayraktar TB2 SİHA, which was removed from the inventory, undertook critical roles in 8370 hours of combating terrorism, 246 hours of combating smuggling and narcotics, 107 hours of monitoring social events, 1012 hours of border security, 151 hours of search and rescue, and 114 hours of protecting strategic infrastructures.

EXCEEDED 1 MILLION HOURS

Bayraktar TB2 SİHAs, which entered the inventory in 2014, were produced with a 93% local content rate and are operating all over the world, successfully surpassed 1 million hours of flight time in December 2024. Thus, Bayraktar TB2 became the national aircraft that has stayed in the sky for the longest time in our aviation history. Bayraktar TB2 SİHAs are operating within the Turkish Armed Forces, National Intelligence Organization, Gendarmerie General Command, General Directorate of Security, Coast Guard Command and General Directorate of Forestry for the purpose of combating forest fires.

THE OWNER OF THE RECORDS

Bayraktar TB2, the holder of important records in our aviation history, broke the altitude record in Turkey with 27 thousand 30 feet in its class. The national SİHA broke another record by flying continuously for 27 hours and 3 minutes in difficult geographical and climatic conditions such as high temperature and sandstorm in the demo flight it participated in Kuwait on July 16, 2019.

A FIRST IN WORLD AVIATION: A BARREL-DROPPING UCAV

The national SİHA Bayraktar TB2, which has made its mark on Turkish aviation history, has once again written its name in aviation history as the first and only SİHA in the world to successfully perform the autonomous barrel roll maneuver during the test flights carried out on May 31, 2024. The barrel roll, one of the important escape maneuvers of fighter jets, has not been achieved by any SİHA in the world so far.

HERO OF KARABAKH

Bayraktar TB2 SİHAs have proven themselves with their superior performance in the international operations they have participated in, as well as the critical roles they have played in Turkey's fight against terrorism. Operating in every corner of the world, the National SİHAs have played a key role in the wars in Libya, Ukraine, Mali, Burkina Faso, as well as in ending the 30-year Karabakh occupation.

IN THE SKIES OF NATO AND EU COUNTRIES

Bayraktar TB2 UAVs, developed nationally and originally by Baykar, have managed to enter the inventories of countries at the end of competitive processes at many points around the world. Bayraktar TB2, which was the winner of the competitive process conducted by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense the previous year, left its American, European and Chinese competitors behind and signed an important export contract. This success strengthened Baykar's influence on a global scale, while further strengthening 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 SİHAs also play an active role in civilian duties such as disasters such as earthquakes and floods, search and rescue operations, irregular migration monitoring, and combating forest fires. Bayraktar TB2 UAVs , which took part in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Sivrice, Elazığ on January 24, 2020, flew for 2417 hours and 6 minutes in the earthquake centered in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2023. In this context, a total of 42 Bayraktar TB2s, 8 of which were integrated with the Baykar Fast Mapping Pod, took part. Within the scope of combating forest fires, 4091 fires were detected by Bayraktar TB2 UAVs at the first moment and extinguished before they grew larger between 2020 and 2024.

EXPORT CHAMPION

Baykar, which has carried out all its projects with its own resources since the beginning of the UAV R&D process in 2003, has obtained 83% of all its revenues from exports. Baykar, which exported 1.8 billion dollars in 2023, was among the top 10 companies that exported the most in all sectors in our country. Baykar, the largest company in the world unmanned aerial vehicle export market, continued its success on a global scale in 2024 and achieved 1.8 billion dollars in exports, obtaining 90 percent of its revenues from exports.

HIGH TECHNOLOGY EXPORT TO 36 COUNTRIES

Baykar, which received the Champions of Export Award, became the export leader of the defense and aviation sector in 2021, 2022 and 2023 according to the data of the Presidency of Defense Industries and the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM). Baykar, which made one-third of the sector's exports in the previous year, made one-fourth of the total exports of the defense and aviation sector in 2024, and carried Turkey to the leading position in the global UCAV export market. 97.5% of the contracts currently signed by Baykar, the world's largest unmanned aerial vehicle company, are export-based. Export agreements have been signed with 34 countries for the Bayraktar TB2 UCAV and 11 countries for the Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV, for a total of 36 countries.