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Turkey is actively advancing the technology of its military unmanned planes. Currently, Turkish military drones “learn” to use high-precision bomb guidance kits.
Bayraktar Akıncı unmanned attack aircraft. Image credit: ArmyInForm via Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0
In the most recent test, Bayraktar Akıncı unmanned attack aircraft used a new generation guidance system called the Gökçe Guidance Kit to hit the dummy target. The video of the experiment was posted on Twitter by the Turkish company Baykar Defense, manufacturer of Bayraktar drones.
Bayraktar Akıncı TİHA’dan TÜBİTAK SAGE Gökçe Güdüm Kiti atış testi başarıyla gerçekleştirildi pic.twitter.com/sZQYky7rYZ
— ANADOLU AJANSI (@anadoluajansi) December 22, 2022
Gökçe Guidance Kit operates very similarly to the famous JDAM conversion kit developed in the U.S. that can be used to convert unguided or “dumb bombs” into “smart bombs”, augmenting them with active guidance capabilities.
Gökçe Guidance Kit provides active guidance capabilities to regular unguided munitions. Image credit: Baykar Defense
An MK-83 bomb weighing 1000 pounds (about 453 kg) with a Gökçe kit mounted on it was launched from the Akinci drone and hit a marked target. The munition landed slightly off the center, but still in the target area.
Image showing the hit performed on a test target by an unmanned drone equipped with the Gökçe Guidance Kit. Image credit: Baykar Defense
The strike was performed from a height of about 6000 meters, and another UAV, namely Bayraktar TB2, observed the test. This was the first time when the Gökçe conversion kit was tested using a drone.
The Turkish developer says that with the new Gökçe kit, drones will be able to accurately hit stationary targets at a distance of 18 km, and at a distance of more than 37 km when launched from a fighter jet.
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