ANKA, advanced Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) class Unmanned Aerial System, performs day and night, all-weather reconnaissance, target detection / identification and intelligence missions with its EO/IR and SAR payloads, featuring autonomous flight capability including Automatic Takeoff and Landing.
ANKA fleets have been operational immediately after the first deliveries and are combat proven including operations under GNSS denied and other electronic warfare environments. ANKA has accumulated more than 37.000 flight hours (2019) with high mission availability and has taken its rightful place in the Turkish Armed Forces inventory.
System Features
- Fully autonomous operation
- Redundant flight control system
- Redundant automatic take – off and landing system
- Redundant electrical power generation
- Redundant high data rate digital datalink
- DO178B certified Software
- Encrypted communication
- Emergency base landing capability
- Return home and land capability for total link loss emergency
- Cost effective, sustainable life cycle
- Heavy fuel propulsion
- Retractable landing gear
- Redundant alternators
- Back up emergency batterries
- Mission long de-icing performance
- Enhanced capability with new developing and more powerful engine
Payload Options
- ISR Payloads
- EO/IR/LD/LRF Camera
- SAR/GMTI-ISAR Radar
- Wide Area Surveillance Camera
- Weapons
- Precision Guided Bombs
- Laser Guided Rockets
- Anti-tank missiles
- Signal Intelligence
- Operation Support
- SATCOM
- PLS
- VHF/ UHF Radio Relay
- Digital Data Recorder
- Remote Video Terminal
Dimensions
- Wing Span: 17.5 m
- Length: 8.6 m
- Height: 3.25 m
Performance
- Endurance: 24 Hours
- Service ceiling: 30.000 ft (MSL)
- Datalink range: +250 km
- Powerplant: Heavy Fuel Engine (155hp)
- Payload Capacity: 250 kg (full endurance)
