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Bayraktar Kızılelma

A Turkish jet combat-aircraft programme from Baykar, distinct from its propeller-driven TB2 and TB3. Reuters covered the 2022 maiden flight and separately checked public flight data. The current manufacturer page describes a later specification and several proposed versions; those numbers must not be retroactively assigned to the first prototype or treated as combat certification.[1][2]

Design origin
Türkiye[1]
Research edition
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10 m14.5 mTop view

Body length[1] · Wingspan[1]

14.5 m · Side view · schematic
Top-view bounding dimensions share one metre scale. Internal contours and side profiles are schematic; height is not inferred. Ranges show their largest outline and retain their labels.

Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.

also known as Bayraktar Kizilelma, KIZILELMA, Kızılelma, Кызылэлма, Кизилэлма

Public-source profile. Performance claims are attributed; type links do not verify an incident identification.

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The numbers, with their sources

Intervals preserve the published bounds; they are not statistical confidence intervals. A blank lower or upper bound stays open. Values belong to the named configuration, not every aircraft.

Published flight range

Unknown in reviewed sources

Take-off mass

≤ 8500 kg[1]KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1 · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Payload

≤ 1500 kg[1]KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1 · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Body length

14.5 m[1]KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1 · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Manufacturer claim

Wingspan

10 m[1]KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1 · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Manufacturer claim

Endurance

≥ 3 h[1]KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1 · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published lower limit

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Turn the scale plane

A flat, schematic outline in perspective, not a 3D model. Only sourced length and span are scaled; height and internal geometry are unknown. For intervals, the upper endpoints are drawn.

Turn the scale plane · Bayraktar Kızılelma1 m
Human · illustrative 1.8 m · KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1

14.5 m / 10 m[1]

Size in everyday terms

One scale. Different machines.

Top view
Bayraktar Kızılelma · 14.5 m / 10 mHuman reference · illustrative 1.8 m1 m
Side view · schematic
Bayraktar Kızılelma · 14.5 mHuman reference · illustrative 1.8 m1 m

Bayraktar Kızılelma · KIZILELMA · current Baykar web table, not PT-1 · Body length[1] · Wingspan[1]

Human height is an illustrative 1.8 m; bus length an illustrative 12 m. Car length uses the cited MINI specification. Vehicle heights and drone side contours are schematic. Top views preserve published length and span; an absent dimension is never guessed.

One car length here is 3.821 m: MINI Cooper 3 door, March 2020 specification.

In our archive

Not yet named as a model in this archive — sources usually say only “drone” or name the family.

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Where this type appears

Counts follow model/family links in the archive. A general register link does not identify a model.

Family & configurations

Bayraktar Kızılelma

No sourced family relationship recorded in this edition. Similar roles do not establish a common design.

Form, sound & identification limits

  • The current table gives 14.5 m length, 10 m span and 8,500 kg MTOW. Its 1,500 kg payload capacity is separate. These are manufacturer claims for the present web configuration, not measurements repeated by Reuters.[1]
  • Baykar publishes cruise and maximum speeds in Mach and a 500 nautical-mile combat radius. Neither is converted into a universal km/h speed or a total-flight-range observation: air conditions and mission definitions matter.[1]
  • The maiden-flight report concerns the development programme, not independent verification of stealth, autonomous combat or carrier qualification. The canard-jet silhouette is schematic; no radar cross-section is inferred from it.[1][2]

Shape or sound alone cannot identify a drone. Follow local public-safety alerts; do not approach wreckage.

No licensed, model-attested recording is available in our sound library.

What does it cost?

Published USD figures use different price bases and years. Airframes, export packages and support are not equivalent. These are not current offers or verified production costs.

Unknown in reviewed sources

Countermeasures in public analysis

No type-specific, independently supported summary is included in this edition.

Source notebook

  1. Baykar · KIZILELMA current technical specifications

    Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Manufacturer claim

  2. Reuters (via MarketScreener) · First jet flight and separate public flight-data observation

    2022-12-15 · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Firsthand reporting

    Consulted via search index; direct page unavailable

Cite this profile

DroneLedger. Bayraktar Kızılelma. Research edition 2026-11-01. https://droneincidents.com/drones/bayraktar-kizilelma/

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