'Global first': Turkey's drone shoots down aircraft with air-to-air missile - watch

Bayraktar Kizilelma, Türkiye’s archetypal uncrewed combatant jet, changeable down a jet-powered craft with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air rocket during trials, marking the archetypal clip an unmanned aerial conveyance (UAV) has achieved specified a feat.In a connection connected Sunday, Turkish defence institution Baykar, the developer of the UAV, said Kızılelma launched the locally developed GÖKDOĞAN air-to-air missile, successfully striking a high-speed pitchy target.

“The rocket was fired from nether the UAV's helping aft the people was detected and tracked utilizing ASELSAN’s MURAD AESA radar. This marked the archetypal clip successful Turkish aviation past that a nationalist craft fired a domestically produced air-to-air missile, guided by a nationalist radar, astatine an aerial target,” the connection said, according to TRT World.It added that the engagement established Kizilelma arsenic the "first and only" uncrewed level worldwide with "verified air-to-air combat capability."During the test, 5 F-16 combatant jets from the Merzifon aerial basal conducted enactment flights alongside Kizilelma successful a associated crewed-uncrewed operation.The UAV’s debased radar cross-section and precocious sensors let it to observe force craft from agelong distances portion remaining mostly undetected.

Kızılelma integrates technologies specified arsenic the MURAD AESA radar and the TOYGUN targeting strategy and tin deploy a scope of domestically produced munitions.In earlier tests, the UAV achieved nonstop hits utilizing TOLUN and TEBER-82 munitions.