Bayraktar Kızılelma Completed Its 1st Flight

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Bayraktar Kızılelma

The pace at which Turkey’s Aerospace sector is making progress especially Baykar Tech. is commendable. The firm has developed Bayraktar TB2 that has been export success and had significant impact in Azerbaijan and Ukraine war. The firm has also developed Akıncı , a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) UCAV. The Kizilelma is a very different category of UCAV – described as unmanned fighter aircraft. It will be a supersonic at later stage having high degree of stealth characteristics tailored for different missions along with manned fighter jets. This program resembles very close to HAL’s CATS warrior program.

If we look at the timeline of the development of Kizilelma, On 20th July 2021 the 1st design of the UCAV was unveiled. On 20 November 2022, the UCAV carried out its first Automatic Taxi and Running Test. On 3rd December 2022, the UCAV just flown above the runway for a very short time. The UCAV got airborne over the runway at the Akinci Flight Training and Test Center. From the video clip shared by the firm it seems that the UCAV was planned for the low flight trial.

Design & Features

Bayraktar Kızılelma is going to be a jet-powered, single-engine, carrier-capable unmanned fighter UCAV. It is designed as a low observable UCAV powered by a turbofan engine & fed by two air inlets. The aircraft has delta wing and canard configuration having small forewings (canards) mounted forward of the main wings – which are triangular in shape. The tail surfaces consist of canted vertical stabilizers. The overall geometry of the airframe is consistent with contemporary stealth aircraft design with minimum protrusions and body angles seemingly optimized for decreasing the radar cross section (RCS). The UCAV will also have radar-absorbing material (RAM) coating for improved stealth characteristics.

The coupled-canard controls have been given for increased maneuverability & better controlling the main wing airflow. The UCAV also features an Internal weapons bay which will allow the aircraft to operate in contested environments while sustaining low observability.

Flight Performance Criteria

Kizilelma is powered by a non-afterburning Ivchenko-Progress AI-25TLT turbofan. This engine is planned to be replaced in later versions by an afterburning Ivchenko-Progress AI-322F which will aid to achieve supersonic performance. Even with the non-afterburning engine, the Kizilelma should offer impressive performance for a drone with near supersonic speed. At later stage the twin engine version of UCAV is also planned.

The UCAV will have operational radius of 930 km and operational altitude of 35,000 Feet with endurance of 5-6 hours. The Maximum take-off weight of the UCAV is 6 Tons with cruise speed of 0.6 Mach and maximum speed of 0.9 Mach. Its payload capacity is 1500 Kilogram where it can carry air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface anti-ship missiles, guided & unguided bombs & Anti-radiation missiles. It will also be able to carry miniaturized EW payload acting as a stand-in jammer and suppress enemy air defences to significantly increase the aircraft survivability. The UCAV will have an AESA radar for enhanced situational awareness. It will have take-off and Landing Capability from Short-Runways & Aircraft Carriers. The UCAV will be able to operate in Line of sight and beyond line of sight of ground control station. It can be launched and retrieved from aircraft carrier or helicopter carriers. It features a retractable tricycle landing gear and for deck operation a tail hook and folding wing main planes.

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