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Baykar

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Turkish drone maker (Istanbul; family-owned) of the Bayraktar TB2, the most combat-proven armed drone globally (800+ Built, 34+ countries), plus the Akinci…

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Founded
1984
HQ
Istanbul, Turkey
Status
private (family-owned)

The verified answer

As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Baykar: 4 models, 11 deployments across 7 regions. 4 sources back the record.

CategoryDrones

Appears inMilitary & defense drones

Models

4

Deployments

11

Overview

Turkish drone maker (Istanbul; family-owned) of the Bayraktar TB2, the most combat-proven armed drone globally (800+ Built, 34+ countries), plus the Akinci HALE UCAV and Kizilelma jet UCAV.

Verified record

Verified deployments
11 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Founded

2004, Istanbul, Turkey

Leadership

Haluk Bayraktar (CEO), Selcuk Bayraktar (CTO) - brothers

Product

Bayraktar TB2 tactical UAV (combat proven in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Libya); Akinci heavy strike drone; Kizilelma unmanned fighter jet

Customers

Turkish Armed Forces, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Morocco, and 20+ export customers

Patents

UAV flight control, autonomous landing, satellite communication links, swarm coordination

Significance

One of most combat-proven tactical drone manufacturers globally; TB2 changed modern warfare in Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine

CEO

Haluk Bayraktar

Revenue

.5 billion (2025)

Exports

.2 billion (2025)

R&D investment

00M for jet engine development

Data & sources

Web sources

4

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Models (4)

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Current platform

Bayraktar Kizilelma

Unmanned combat aircraft with serial production beginning August 2025. First BVR air-to-air kill by UAV in November 2025.

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Current platform

Bayraktar Akinci

High-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned combat aerial vehicle. Joined Turkish Armed Forces in August 2021. 110 delivered by January 2026.

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Previous platform

Bayraktar TB2

Medium-altitude long-endurance tactical armed UAV. 27-hour endurance, precision-guided munitions. Extensive combat use in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and counter-terrorism operations.

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Current platform

Bayraktar TB2

Baykar, a privately held Turkish family firm founded in the 1980s by Ozdemir Bayraktar and led today by chief technology officer Selcuk Bayraktar, who developed the platform, and chief executive Haluk Bayraktar, makes the Bayraktar TB2, the most combat-proven armed drone in the world. The TB2 is a medium-altitude armed uncrewed aircraft with more than twenty hours of endurance, a 150-kilogram payload, and Roketsan laser-guided munitions, flown with triple-redundant flight control that handles autonomous taxi, takeoff, cruise, and landing. More than 800 have been built, accumulating roughly a million flight hours by December 2024, and they have seen combat in Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, and Ethiopia, the deepest verified combat record of any armed drone and the platform's distinguishing registry fact. The company also builds the larger twin-engine Akinci, with 110 delivered by January 2026, and the jet-powered Kizilelma, which has five prototypes and two serial aircraft with a first Turkish Armed Forces delivery expected in the first quarter of 2026, and it reported a 2.2-billion-dollar export record in 2025. Honestly characterized, the TB2 is remotely piloted with autonomous flight functions but a human in the loop for targeting and weapons release, not a fully autonomous AI strike drone, while Kizilelma is being developed toward higher autonomy but remains pre-fielding. The registry records the TB2 and Akinci at production maturity and Kizilelma as an early, pre-fielding sibling, and notes that the export-country count has a thirty-four-versus-twenty-eight discrepancy across sources, that the 250-per-year production figure is an unaudited capacity claim, and that the 2.2-billion-dollar export figure is company and Turkish-media sourced.

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Partnerships

Every company Baykar has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

4 total2 operating2 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Leonardo1× joint
  2. 2Microsoft1× joint350 total
  3. 3NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
  4. 4Safran1× joint

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Relationships

MMicrosoftTechnology partnerNNVIDIATechnology partnerSSafranPartnerLLeonardoPartnerBBaykarCustomer

Current leadership (2)

Founders (1)

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Baykar.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Baykar in third-party press

Leonardo CEO says Baykar drone venture begins aircraft integration in Italy, with first customer deliveries due this year

Aug 16, 2026

M-346 Military Jet Leads Baykar UCAV in Autonomous Formation Flight - Aviation International News

Jun 23, 2026

Leonardo and Baykar test M-346 and KIZILELMA teaming in first live K-SWARM autonomous formation flights - Defence Industry Europe

Jun 22, 2026

Peers

99 peers across 1 segment. Every Baykar competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

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