The first prototype of Bayraktar AKINCI TİHA (Attack Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), called PT-1, developed by the BAYKAR company, reached an altitude of 30 thousand feet. UAV has thus successfully completed the High Altitude System Identification Test. With this altitude, Akıncı İHA has reached the usual cruising altitude of passenger aircraft.
Bayraktar AKINCI TİHA PT-1 took off at 06.16 as part of the High Altitude System Identification Test after the preparations that started at night. The flight, which exceeded the targeted altitude of 30 thousand feet (approximately 9.15 km), took 3 hours and 22 minutes. Bayraktar Akıncı TİHA successfully landed at 09.38 after the tests. Bayraktar AKINCI TİHA thus achieved its fifth successful flight in the tests that continued with two prototypes.
211216-N-QI061-1222 NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. (December 16, 2021) An MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), assigned to Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 (VUP-19), sits on the flight line at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, Dec. 16, 2021. VUP-19, the Navy’s first Triton squadron, will continue to maintain and operate the aircraft off the East Coast to further develop the concept of operations and refine tactics, techniques, and procedures. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan T. Beard/ Released)