TAI Anka

The TAI Anka (English: Phoenix ) is an unmanned aircraft of the Turkish producer Turkish Aerospace Industries ( TAI ). There are two variants of the planned Anka: A specific for the reconnaissance version Anka -A as well as an armed variant Anka -B.

History

In the past, the Turkish military was due to foreign policy upsets repeatedly problems in the procurement of military equipment. To increase the independence and strengthen the domestic industry, signed on 24 December 2004, the Turkish Ministry of Defence and TAI an agreement to develop an unmanned aircraft for the Turkish Air Force. The contract has a volume of about 107 million U.S. $ and includes development, production, flight test and delivery of three prototypes, including the associated ground systems.

The Anka took off on the Sivrihisar Air Base on its first flight on December 30, 2010. The flight time was 14 minutes.

On 23 November 2011, the Anka started at 09:35 clock to a 6- hour test flight. During the flight test 240 test points were dealt with before they landed at 15:35 clock again. During the flight, she climbed to an altitude of 18,000 ft ( 5486 m). The launch and the landing was by the autopilot system.

Construction

The Anka has wings with high aspect ratio and a V-tail. Due to the detachable wings and tail, the aircraft with a C -130 air-transportable is. The structure of the aircraft consists mostly of fiber composites. In addition, the Anka has a retractable landing gear and de-icing equipment. Powered aircraft is powered by a turbo diesel engine manufacturer Thielert in print assembly.

The control of the aircraft from a redundant flight control system. For this, the Anka is equipped with GPS receivers for navigation, INS, air data sensors and other sensors. Control surfaces and actuators are redundant. To enable integration of the UAV into the normal air traffic, the Anka is equipped with a radio to communicate with air traffic controllers and other aircraft.

The aircraft in flight follows a programmed path, but which may be modified during the flight.

The payload of the Enlightenment variant Anka -A comprises optical and IR cameras ( ASELSAN AselFLIR 300T ), laser rangefinder and laser target illuminator. The scaffolding of SAR sensors is planned. For the transmission of payload data to the ground station, the Anka has a wideband data link.

The armed variant Anka -B will follow a little later and expected to have a larger span. Possible weapons CIRIT and UMTAS be called by Roketsan.

TIHA

Anka is the flying component of the Unmanned Aircraft System ( UAS) TIHA. It comprises a total of:

  • 3 Anka aircraft
  • One ground station ( Ground Control Station GCS)
  • 1 automatic takeoff and landing system (Automatic Take- Off & Landing System, ATOLS )
  • 1 image analysis station ( Portable Image Exploration Station, TIES )
  • 1 Mobile Video Terminal (Remote Video Terminal, RVT)
  • Other equipment ( Ground Support Equipment, GSE)

Use

Currently, the Anka program is still in the prototype stage. Later, a use of the aircraft, among other things in the border region with Iraq is planned.

Operator

Specifications

1 ) Range of the data links

Comparable aircraft

  • General Atomics MQ -1
  • IAI Heron
  • General Atomics MQ-9
  • DRDO Rustom
  • Vestel Karayel
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