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Two Turkish-made unmanned aerial vehicles have performed a formation flight for the first time at Teknofest, Türkiye’s largest aerospace and technology festival, with Selçuk Bayraktar, the producing company’s chief technology officer, serving as the second pilot.

Türkiye’s unmanned fighter aircraft, Bayraktar Kızılelma, has been showcased at Teknofest, Türkiye’s largest aerospace and technology festival, attracting great attention despite ongoing design and development efforts.

Few countries work on this kind of fighter drones, Selcuk Bayraktar says

The Bayraktar TB2, Türkiye's first national and domestically developed unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), set a new record in the history of Turkish aviation by successfully completing 500,000 flight hours.

Volunteers show solidarity with people of Ukraine, with campaigns launched in countries such as Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Canada
 

The Speakers of Parliaments of Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Pakistan, met in Istanbul for the “Second Trilateral Meeting of the Speakers of the Parliaments”, visited Özdemir Bayraktar National Technology Center.

Following similar steps by Lithuania and Poland, the people of Norway and Canada have started crowdfunding campaigns to buy Turkey-made Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) for Ukraine.

"We are very proud, and it is very touching for us to be one of the symbols of this big resistance in Ukraine," Bayraktar TB2 drone-maker Baykar's CEO, Haluk Bayraktar said, talking to CNN in an interview, answering a question on how it feels to attract this much attention around the world.

Norway has launched a fundraising campaign to purchase the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drone for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Lithuanians earlier collected €6M to procure TB2 for Ukraine, Türkiye’s Baykar instead gifted drone free of charge