Vestel Karayel

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Karayel
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RoleMedium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle and unmanned combat air vehicle (armed variant)
National originTurkey
Manufacturer Lentatek
First flight30 April 2014
Primary users Turkish Armed Forces
Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
Number built16+[ citation needed ]

The Vestel Karayel is a surveillance, reconnaissance and later combat unmanned aerial vehicle system developed by Lentatek. The drone is currently operated by Turkish Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia. [1] [2]

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Design

The Karayel is designed and manufactured in accordance with NATO ‘Airworthiness’ standard; STANAG 4671. The Karayel system has novel triple redundant distributed avionics architecture which ensures protection against all kinds of uncontrolled crash. With this feature, systematic fault safety used only in manned aviation around the world until now, has been carried to an unmanned aerial vehicle for the first time with the Karayel. The aerial vehicle has the ability to protect against lightning thanks to the aluminum network grid on its composite structure. A de-Icing system automatically detects icing conditions allows operations in cold climates. The Karayel, which is an aerial reconnaissance and surveillance platform, can perform target marking, lighting and ammunition direction by its laser sensors and day/night target detection and identification by its camera system which it carries as payload. [3]

Specifications

Data from Vestel Savunma [4] [5]

General characteristics

Performance

Karayel-SU TUAV

Karayel-SU (SU; standing for Armed-Extended Wing) has a longer wingspan, as well as end-plates on its wing tips and two hardpoints for payload under each wing. Each one of the hardpoints can carry 30 kg, meaning that the total payload capacity of the Karayel-SU under its wings is 120 kg. The wing hardpoints can also be equipped with payloads other than munitions. The Karayel-SU also retains the ability to carry 50 kg EO/IR payload at the fuselage payload bay [6]

Technicial Specifications

Other variants

CTech SATCOM On-The-Move terminals for unmanned aerial vehicles

Armaments

Operators

Possible sales

Operational history

See also

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