Zitat:Chadian Air Force unveils Aksungur UAV

The Chadian Air Force (AAT) has revealed it has received at least one Turkish Aerospace (TUSAŞ) Aksungur unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

It released a video on 21 April that included footage of an Aksungur with AAT markings and the Turkish-format serial 23013 taking off from Adji Kosseï Air Base at N'Djamena International Airport armed with eight MAM-L small laser-guided bombs. The video also featured AAT personnel being trained by TUSAŞ in Türkiye.

The AAT operates at least two TUSAŞ Anka UAVs and three TUSAŞ Hürkuş-C turboprop light-attack aircraft, which were unveiled when President General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno visited Adji Kosseï Air Base in July 2023.

Zitat:territory in the Sahel region. The country had previously procured three HÜRKUŞ-C light attack aircraft and two ANKA unmanned aerial vehicles from Turkish Aerospace Industries for this same purpose.[


A TAI ANKA-S drone belonging to the Chadian Air Force / From the Chadian Air Force
Developed based on the TAI ANKA platform, AKSUNGUR is a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) class UAV system that can perform Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and strike missions day and night with EO/IR, SAR, and SIGINT payloads. The system, which has been actively used by the Turkish Navy, Air Force and Special Operations (National Intelligence Organization or MİT) since 2021, has been exported to Kyrgyzstan and Angola, aside from Chad.


A TAI Aksungur Unmanned Aerial Vehicle / From TAI
Aksungur has a length of 11.6 meters, a wingspan of 24 meters, a maximum takeoff weight of 3300 kilograms, and a cargo capacity of 750 kilograms. Thanks to two TEI PD-170 turbo diesel engines with three-bladed propellers, the drone has 340 horsepower and a top speed of 100 knots (180 km/h) at sea level. The drone can fly for 12 hours with 750kg of external payload during an Assault/Naval Patrol Mission, and 24 hours with 150kg of payload during a Signal Intelligence Mission. As a weapon system, Aksungur, which has 3 weapon stations with a capacity of 500kg, 300kg and 150kg on each wing, can be equipped with the TEBER-81 (Laser Guided Mk-81), TEBER-82 (Laser Guided Mk-82), L-UMTAS, MAM-L (LUMTAS Guided Missile Variant), Cirit MAM-C (Cirit Guided Missile Variant), HKG-3 (Precision Guidance Kit), KGK (82) Wing Guidance Kit and Miniature Bomb ammunition.