Turkish drone maker Baykar “dominates” the software program of its tech, the corporate’s CTO mentioned
Türkiye’s defence firm Baykar has disregarded worries that, because it ramps up exports, its assault drones might be turned in opposition to Ankara sometime, with the corporate’s prime government suggesting that each one the mandatory precautions had been taken in opposition to the navy know-how falling into the fingers of a possible foe.
Talking in an interview with TV100 earlier this week, Baykar chairman and chief know-how officer, Selcuk Bayraktar, defined that firstly the corporate sells fight drones solely to nations which have “shut relations” or a “strategic alliance” with Türkiye, and thus doesn’t “anticipate” a stab within the again.
“You additionally know that these are high-tech units, and also you equip high-tech units with software program. Solely those that develop that know-how dominate the software program,” he added, with out elaborating.
Baykar has additionally taken steps to stop hackers from taking on and inflicting hurt with its UAVs, the CTO defined. “After all, we have now particular measures concerning info safety,” Bayraktar advised host Candas Tolga Isik. “Now that on this period, states are additionally hacked. We’re taking particular measures in opposition to all these, and that is additionally a race.”
The drone maker was propelled into the worldwide highlight after Azerbaijan deployed its Bayraktar TB2s in opposition to Armenia to nice impact within the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh battle. The flagship UAV is already being offered to over a dozen nations, with Baykar’s exports leaping 78% final yr to $1.18 billion. On the identical time the corporate makes certain that Türkiye’s navy will get UAVs at one-third the costs it costs in overseas nations, Bayraktar mentioned.
Ukraine additionally bought dozens of TB2 strike drones even earlier than the battle with Russia started final February, with officers in Kiev claiming the weapons would give them an edge on the battlefield in opposition to the Donbass areas. Over the previous yr, Kiev reportedly acquired an unspecified variety of further drones, regardless of Türkiye’s official neutrality over the battle.
Since Russia started its navy operation, most of Ukraine’s fleet of TB2s has been destroyed, the Russian Protection Ministry has claimed. On a prank name in October, one Ukrainian official described them as “firstly a PR mission” and mentioned “they had been all shot down inside per week.”
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