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The TAI Anka is a family of unmanned aerial vehicles developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries for requirements of the Turkish Armed Forces. Currently, the Turkish military is actively employing the Anka-S version of the UAV for strikes on the Syrian Army in the region of Greater Idlib.
This is another version of the Turkish drone. :D
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Signed with Arrogants signature. No shit. He sighed that aircraft and it was shot down, what irony.
He probably wrote “Death to Assad” on it. You know how that backfires on people
Yes this is a much better version in this state.
Loadout seems to be a pair of Roketsan 22 kg MAM-L (HE Frag, tandem HEAT) and a pair of 6.2 kg MAM-C (tandem HEAT, thermobaric) glide bombs – neither use any kind of rocket engine. They are RF guided on release and have IR and laser homing for terminal phase. You can just barely see the IR laser scintillation on some of the targets, but others seem out of range and must use terminal IR homing. Very effective for precision bombing, but limited to the four munitions for now. Future turboprop version of ANKA may double munitions load; current version is turbo diesel.
Some older pictures showed two MAM-Ls mounted in tandem (front, back) on a single, long hardpoint. Not sure if that was a variation of an ANKA or another UAV.
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These must be the same glide bombs that Israel uses. They can be released from 60 miles away, as long as they know the approximate GPS coordinate of the thermal target, for example some military hardware with a hot engine.. I’m sure that the CIA supplies the GPS info to Turkey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0624iLH8EA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09uoOvi1tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkILRocZKGc