The Bayraktar KIZILELMA Unmanned Fighter Aircraft, which
marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history of global aviation,
successfully completed its first firing test with an air-to-ground supersonic
missile. During the test, which took place in Merzifon, KIZILELMA S2
successfully struck its target with the JET-230 supersonic missile under its
wings.

Baykar continues the development process of Türkiye’s
first-ever unmanned fighter aircraft, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, by integrating new
capabilities. As part of ongoing work at the 5th Main Jet Base Command in
Merzifon, Bayraktar KIZILELMA fired Roketsan’s JET-230 missile for the first
time.

FIRST FIRING WITH JET-230

 Bayraktar KIZILELMA’s serial production model with the tail
number S2 departed the AKINCI Flight Training and Test Center in Çorlu,
Tekirdağ for the 5th Main Jet Base Command in Merzifon on 8 July 2026 to carry
out the firing test. Following a series of preparations and tests at the base,
the unmanned fighter aircraft took off with two supersonic JET-230 missiles
under its wings and headed toward the naval target to conduct the firing test.
Bayraktar KIZILELMA subsequently fired its JET-230 missile from a distance of 120+
kilometers to strike its target precisely. As such, Türkiye’s first unmanned
fighter aircraft passed yet another major threshold to demonstrate its ability
to conduct critical missions with air-to-ground supersonic munitions.

 BAYRAKTAR: “YET ANOTHER MILESTONE HAS
BEEN COMPLETED”

 Baykar Chairman and CTO
Selçuk Bayraktar, who personally led the test, congratulated the test team
following the successful firing: “Yet another milestone has been
completed. I wholeheartedly congratulate you, friends.”

INTEGRATION OF
INDIGENOUS MUNITIONS GAINS MOMENTUM

Bayraktar KIZILELMA has
previously completed successful firing tests with the GÖKDOĞAN air-to-air
missile, as well as TOLUN, TEBER-82 KGK, and LGK-82 munitions. Having now also
successfully struck its target with the JET-230 supersonic missile, Bayraktar
KIZILELMA is seeing the integration of indigenous munitions gain momentum. As a
result, Türkiye’s first unmanned fighter aircraft continues to increase its
effectiveness against a range of different targets.

 KIZILELMA’S FIRST
AUTONOMOUS CLOSE-FORMATION FLIGHT

In a test conducted on
December 27, 2025, Bayraktar KIZILELMA’s third prototype, PT3, and fifth
prototype, PT5, moved in coordination with one another thanks to intelligent
fleet autonomy algorithms developed by the Baykar team, carrying out a
formation flight (close-formation flight) with an autonomous combat pilot. As a
result, for the first time in the history of global aviation, two unmanned
fighter aircraft performed an autonomous close-formation flight.

 A FIRST IN AVIATION
HISTORY: AIR-TO-AIR STRIKE

Bayraktar
KIZILELMA made history in global aviation during a test conducted on November
29, 2025. In the historic test, carried out off the coast of Sinop, KIZILELMA
scored a direct hit on a target aircraft — designated by ASELSAN’s MURAD AESA
Radar — using the GÖKDOĞAN missile, developed by TÜBİTAK SAGE. In doing so,
KIZILELMA became the world’s first unmanned fighter aircraft to neutralize a
jet-powered aerial target using a beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile.

 EXPORT CHAMPION

Having
self-financed all its projects since its founding, Baykar continued to be the
world’s largest exporter in the unmanned aerial vehicle segment in 2025.
Maintaining its leadership in the global UCAV market over the past three years,
Baykar broke its own record with an export volume of $2.2 billion in 2025.
Deriving 90% of its revenue from exports in recent years, Baykar has become the
driving force of Türkiye’s high-technology exports.

 BAYKAR: THE WORLD’S LARGEST UAV COMPANY

Having
ranked among Türkiye’s top 10 exporters across all sectors in 2023, 2024, and
2025 and received the Champions of Export Award, Baykar was the export leader
of Türkiye’s defense and aerospace sector in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024,
according to data from the Defense Industry Agency (SSB) and the Turkish
Exporters Assembly (TİM). Having single-handedly accounted for one-third of the
sector’s exports in 2023, Baykar went on to account for a quarter of the
defense and aerospace sector’s total exports in 2024, propelling Türkiye to a
leading position in the global UCAV export market. As the world’s largest
unmanned aerial vehicle company, Baykar has signed export agreements with a
total of 39 countries — 36 countries for the Bayraktar TB2 UCAV and 16
countries so far for the Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV.