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July 3, 2017Watch TAI’s ‘ANKA’ UAV
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) shared the latest presentation video for its ANKA unmanned aerial vehicle, which was exhibited at this year's IDEF and Le Bourget fairs in its armed version.
ANKA is an advanced Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) class Unmanned Aerial System, performs day and night, all-weather reconnaissance, target detection / identification and intelligence missions with its EO/IR and SAR payloads, featuring autonomous flight capability including Automatic Take-off and Landing. ANKA incorporates a heavy-fuel engine and electro-expulsive Ice Protection System with an Advanced Ground Control Station and dual datalink allowing operational security and ease. The system is expandable with a Transportable Image Exploitation Station, Radio Relay, Remote Video Terminal and SATCOM.