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Elbit Systems is marketing a concept to convert commercial vessels into floating drone bases carrying 9-12 Hermes 650 Spark aircraft, offering countries like Japan, Denmark and Germany a cheaper alternative to aircraft carriers for maritime surveillance.
Read the story →A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
Turkey's Baykar — family-owned, Istanbul-based — built the Bayraktar TB2 from a domestic-independence program into a combat-proven juggernaut with 1.25 million flight hours, agreements with 36 countries, and an estimated 65 percent share of the global UCAV export market.
Turkey's Bayraktar Kızılelma is a jet-powered, internally-armed, low-observable unmanned fighter that achieved the first-ever UCAV beyond-visual-range air-to-air kill in November 2025. Here's how the platform was built, what it carries, and where it's headed.
Turkey's Bayraktar TB3 is the world's first fixed-wing UCAV to operate autonomously from a short-deck amphibious assault ship — a direct consequence of Ankara's expulsion from the F-35 program and the subsequent pivot to indigenous drone aviation.
The Bayraktar TB2 put Turkey on the drone map, but two larger platforms—Baykar's Akinci UCAV and TAI's Aksungur—represent the next tier of Turkish strike capability, now operating in more than a dozen countries and carrying cruise missiles and air-launched drones.
At one-quarter the price of an MQ-9 Reaper, Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 cracked open the armed-drone export market to 36 countries — while its Ukraine combat arc exposed the real limits of what a piston-engine MALE can do against a peer adversary that adjusts.
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