{"id":9183,"date":"2024-11-20T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9183"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T06:42:25","slug":"turkiyes-bayraktar-tb3-drone-makes-history-with-short-deck-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/security\/turkiyes-bayraktar-tb3-drone-makes-history-with-short-deck-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Bayraktar TB3 drone makes history with short-deck launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Bayraktar TB3 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) became the first drone in world aviation history to successfully take off and land on a short-deck ship Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Bayraktar TB3 has made history as the first unmanned aerial vehicle to successfully take off and land on the short-runway carrier TCG Anadolu,&#8221; said producer Baykar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish Defense Ministry celebrated the achievement, calling it the realization of an &#8220;exciting wait and dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haluk Bayraktar, Baykar&#8217;s chief executive officer, attributed the success to Turkish engineers&#8217; commitment to developing &#8220;the world&#8217;s best&#8221; technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drone entered mass production in October and exports are expected to begin within six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developed by Baykar, a Turkish defense company, the TB3 has completed over 700 flight hours in tests, including a notable 32-hour continuous flight in December 2023 covering 5,700 kilometers (3,541 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baykar&#8217;s flagship unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci, are widely recognized in the global defense market for their technological innovation and operational effectiveness.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Bayraktar TB3 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) became the first drone in world aviation history to successfully take off and land on a short-deck ship Tuesday. &#8220;The Bayraktar TB3 has made history as the first unmanned aerial vehicle to successfully take off and land on the short-runway carrier TCG Anadolu,&#8221; said producer Baykar. The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}