Bayraktar Akinci

Turkey’s heavy-strike HALE UCAV — a 24-hour twin-turboprop that combines a 1,500-kg payload with cruise missiles, air-launched ballistic munitions and an AESA radar, underpinning a 16-country export drive built on technology transfer and local co-production.

Overview

The Bayraktar Akinci (Turkish “Raider”) is a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) twin-turboprop unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by Baykar. Sized for strategic strike and ISTAR, the platform routinely operates at 30,000 ft with a 24-h endurance, carries 1,500 kg of sensors and ordnance on eight hardpoints, and is cleared for a uniquely broad family of Turkish-made stand-off weapons. Its combination of deep-magazine strike persistence, an AESA radar, and aggressive co-production export terms has made it the world’s most widely exported heavy UCAV, with 16 customer nations by early 2026 according to Defence Turkey.

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