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Vestel Defence is getting ready to introduce its new MALE-class unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) following the company’s successful debut with the Karayel tactical UAV, defence systems general manager Mr. Aziz Sipahi said in an interview with Zaman.

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Karayel is a proven platform capable of cruising at 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) and carrying a payload of 35 kilograms, with a flight endurance of 10 hours. Payload generally consists of advanced electro-optic sensors (daytime camera and FLIR systems), navigation module, telemetry systems and encrypted communications equipment. Karayel can become airborne from a specialized catapult-type launcher or take off from a regular runway and land automatically.

One Karayel system consists of 6 UAVs, 3 land-based command and control stations and 1 launcher.

The new platform, dubbed Karayel-2, is being designed as a larger, more advanced successor to the Karayel and will be capable of reaching an altitude of 22,500 feet (6,900 meters) with a flight duration of 20 hours, bringing the platform to ‘Medium Altitute Long Endurance’ (MALE) class.

UAVs are extremely important assets in counter-terrorism operations in Turkey’s mountainous southeast, where manned flights (with F-16s and F-4s) are significantly more expensive to perform and pose an unavoidable risk of loss of human life. UAVs provide a valuable alternative in especially area patrol and reconnaissance missions by loitering over a given area for hours and alerting the authorities of any illegal movements thousands of meters below. Most UAVs, including Vestel’s Karayel, is capable of seeing and identifying targets at night. Because UAVs are generally smaller and quieter, and fly at high altitutes, they are extremely hard to spot by terrorists.

Turkey currently has only one operational unmanned combat aerial vehicle, or UCAV, which is TAI’s Mosquito helicopter system armed with two Roketsan-made Cirit laser-guided missiles. TAI is also working on an armed version of its MALE-class UAV Anka, dubbed Anka-B.

Vestel Defence will introduce the 3rd Turkish UCAV.

“Following requests from certain Middle Eastern countries, we’ve started the design process of an UAV capable of carrying weapons,” said Mr. Sipahi.

UCAVs are a growing breed of weaponary slowly replacing manned combat aircraft in critical anti-terrorism operations. USAF actively uses Predator armed drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan against Al Queda installations.

With the introduction of a 3rd typoe of UCAV, Turkey is expected become one of the leading nations in the production of these drones, capable supplying a growing demand from around the world.

Vestel to develop Karayel-2, UCAVs | TR Defence
 
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Upgraded Karayel ready for delivery

07 May 2013

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Karayel II

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Karayel I

The Turkish Land Forces is due to receive the first of six Karayel tactical UAVs following a series of improvements implemented by manufacturer Vestel Defence.

The company expects to deliver the first example of what had been known as ‘Version II’ but is now the baseline version of the Karayel by mid-year, with the following five by the end of 2013.

Now 6.5m in length and featuring a 10.5m wing span, the upgraded Karayel has a maximum take-off weight of 550kg, doubling its payload and endurance, to 70kg and 20 hours respectively.

Speaking at the IDEF exhibition in Istanbul on 7 May, a company spokesman said after the earlier version had been demonstrated to the Turkish armed forces, the army determined it needed a slightly bigger, more capable aircraft and placed an order instead for six of the upgraded aircraft.

Vestel is confident that should the army determine it needs additional platforms, it has the capacity to be able to increase production to one aircraft per month.

The spokesman noted that while there was early interest from international customers, the company was ‘trying to keep everyone calm’ until the testing regime had finished and the current deliveries are made to the Turkish armed forces.

Vestel also used the exhibition to publicly unveil the smaller Bora UAV, which it is using to derisk the avionics, autopilot and datalink communications of the Karayel.

The company spokesman said many of the critical technologies were first demonstrated on the Bora before being integrated with the larger airframe.

However, the Bora will also be offered to the Turkish Armed Forces as a training aircraft for operators moving onto the Karayel as well as being marketed as a stand-alone product.
 
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I am afraid this is a plastic mock up to fool fanboys.
Do you care to show a picture of it while flying?

Made in turkey imported image intensifier tubes
Made in turkey imported engines and now
Made in turkey plastic mock up.

Don't fall for the propaganda of your leaders. You deserve more.

Just show a picture of it flying.
 
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You are an uber-moron. It's VESTEL DEFENSE, any idea what they are capable of? You better stay back in Egypt and grow chick peas.

I am afraid this is a plastic mock up to fool fanboys.
Do you care to show a picture of it while flying?

Made in turkey imported image intensifier tubes
Made in turkey imported engines and now
Made in turkey plastic mock up.

Don't fall for the propaganda of your leaders. You deserve more.

Just show a picture of it flying.
 
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I am afraid this is a plastic mock up to fool fanboys.
Do you care to show a picture of it while flying?

Made in turkey imported image intensifier tubes
Made in turkey imported engines and now
Made in turkey plastic mock up.

Don't fall for the propaganda of your leaders. You deserve more.

Just show a picture of it flying.

Whatever dude.

Whatever makes you sleep at night.
 
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You are an uber-moron. It's VESTEL DEFENSE, any idea what they are capable of? You better stay back in Egypt and grow chick peas.
All I see is a plastic mock up. They are capable of fooling fanboys
 
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I am afraid this is a plastic mock up to fool fanboys.
Do you care to show a picture of it while flying?

Made in turkey imported image intensifier tubes
Made in turkey imported engines and now
Made in turkey plastic mock up.

Don't fall for the propaganda of your leaders. You deserve more.

Just show a picture of it flying.

Kid, you are totally braindead, obsessed with Turkey...Your only contribution to PDF is mere trolling, all your comments here are worthy of nothing...Please share your non-existing wisdom pearls somewhere else
 
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Farag's butt is paining so bad cause of the truths I throwed into his desperate face regarding their propagana toys Mollah's reveal. He is a Persian as well, not Egyptian. :)
 
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The first prototyp had a retractable landing gears why not the improved version. Any one an idea.
 
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I am afraid this is a plastic mock up to fool fanboys.
Do you care to show a picture of it while flying?

Made in turkey imported image intensifier tubes
Made in turkey imported engines and now
Made in turkey plastic mock up.

Don't fall for the propaganda of your leaders. You deserve more.

Just show a picture of it flying.

They do manufacture first class military products, nevertheless not all components of those products are home-made, and it's not only in Turkey, for instance, Israeli Merkava has a German engine, Russian T-90 has French optical devices, US frigates have Italian 76 mm Super Rapid Guns, and the last but not least the Egyptian Abram M1A1 has about 10% of foreign components. Even new 5th & 4.5 gen jets like F-35 and Europhiter components and parts are manufactured in several countries.
 
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