{"id":10287,"date":"2017-11-15T18:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/15\/turkeys-newest-armed-drone-makes-debut-at-dubai-airshow\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:34:56","slug":"turkeys-newest-armed-drone-makes-debut-at-dubai-airshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/uas\/2017\/11\/15\/turkeys-newest-armed-drone-makes-debut-at-dubai-airshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s newest armed drone makes debut at Dubai Airshow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 After less than a year of development, a new extended-wing, armed version of the Karayel UAV by Turkey-based Vestel Defence Industry made its international debut among the static displays at this week\u2019s Dubai Airshow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a 13-meter wingspan and an endurance of eight hours when fully armed with a 120-kilogram payload, the Karayel-SU is the latest in a family of UAVs built by Vestel for the Turkish Armed Forces and the export market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are focusing our marketing efforts on the Middle East and Africa region, and we are beginning efforts to secure our first export customer,\u201d Oner Tekin, Vestel\u2019s general manager, told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vestel executives said the armed and unarmed shorter-winged (10.5-meter wingspan) versions of the automated takeoff and landing Karayel UAV have flown a total of some 3,000 hours, primarily through a power-by-the-hour-type leasing arrangement with the Turkish Armed Forces. The extended-wing version is not part of that agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without weaponry, the new extended-wing aircraft carries a 50-kilogram day\/night sensor in its fuselage bay and is designed to fly for a constant 20 hours at altitudes reaching 18,000 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a contract to give them services, and were proud that our aircrafts have flown more than 3,000 flight hours without incident,\u201d Tekin said of the earlier-model unarmed Karayel and lightly armed Karayel-S.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2017\/11\/03\/drone-wars-turkey-ups-homegrown-options\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/anka-22.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Drone wars: Turkey ups homegrown options<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Turkey is seeking to counter threats on both sides of its border, and local industry is preparing to fulfill that demand.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flight tests on a partially weaponized Karayel-SU are set to begin in January 2018, said Suha Dinner, the firm\u2019s deputy general manager. \u201cWe will commence fight tests with weapons on two of the four hard points the first week of January.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vestel executives said weaponry by Ankara-based Roketsan has already been integrated on the four hard points under the wing and that armed flight tests will begin soon. The UAV displayed here for the first time outside of Turkey was shown with two types of miniaturized, anti-tank missiles \u2015 the MAM-L and the laser-guided MAM-C \u2015 developed by Ankara\u2019s state-owned Roketsan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hudai Ozdamar, Roketsan\u2019s director for market development, said the firm\u2019s miniature smart munitions \u2015 both capable of striking targets within an 8-kilometer range \u2013 are optimized to meet what he characterized as a growing global demand for unmanned precision-strike capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll the armies are interested in combat UAVs, and it\u2019s only a matter of time until we see this interest translate into export sales,\u201d Ozdamar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Roketsan is supplying its miniature missiles to all three Turkish firms now manufacturing UAVs: Turkish Aerospace Industries, Baykar Machine and Vestel. And because the missiles are completely indigenous, Ozdamar said export licensing issues are not a problem to end users approved by the Turkish Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe UAV companies supply their UAVs, and we are arming them. We try to design all our systems to be self-sufficient. We don\u2019t want to be limited by export licensing restrictions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MAM-L, a motorless version of Roketsan\u2019s laser-guided, long-range, anti-tank missile, was declared operational by the Turkish Army in the past year. The smaller caliber MAM-C, which first debuted at the International Defence Industry Fair in Istanbul last May, is undergoing final developmental tests and should be operational \u201cin some months\u2019 time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both are offered in high explosive and tandem penetrating warhead versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Vestel\u2019s newest Karayel-SU UAV, executives in Dubai indicated their first export customer could be Saudi Arabia. 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