Bayraktar KIZILELMA, Türkiye’s first unmanned fighter aircraft developed indigenously by Baykar, has successfully completed its first live-fire test within its test program, striking with full accuracy using TOLUN and TEBER-82 munitions.

Italian Deputy Minister of Defense Matteo Perego di Cremnago, Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Antonio Conserva, Army Commander Lieutenant General Carmine Masiello, and Deputy Commander of the Navy Vice Admiral Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto, together with their accompanying delegation, examined Baykar’s game-changing technologies on site. The high-level delegation observed flight and live-fire demonstrations and received a comprehensive briefing on Baykar’s vision for the future.

The test campaign for Baykar’s indigenously developed KEMANKEŞ 1 AI-powered mini cruise missile is progressing successfully. In last week’s live-fire trial from a Bayraktar AKINCI HALE UCAV, KEMANKEŞ 1 scored pinpoint hits on airborne targets, destroying ground targets with the same accuracy.

Baykar has completed its acquisition of Piaggio Aerospace, the 140-year-old Italian aviation giant. Under the agreement, Piaggio’s facilities will serve as a strategic European hub for producing both the P.180 Avanti Evo and Baykar’s indigenously UCAVs.