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Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR

A twin-engine, twin-boom Turkish MALE reconnaissance and strike aircraft. The manufacturer’s technical table and Turkey’s naval acceptance account provide separate evidence origins. Its long-duration claims, national-engine test and payload marketing describe different conditions. The profile preserves them separately rather than implying a maximum payload can be carried for the maximum advertised endurance.[1][2]

Design origin
Türkiye[1]
Research edition
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24 m12.5 mTop view

Body length[1] · Wingspan[1]

12.5 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 TAI Aksungur, TUSAS Aksungur, Аксунгур

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

≤ 3300 kg[1]AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit

Payload

≥ 750 kg[1]AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published lower limit

Body length

12.5 m[1]AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Manufacturer claim

Wingspan

24 m[1]AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Manufacturer claim

Endurance

≤ 50 h[1]AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published upper limit41 h[1]AKSUNGUR · maker-reported TEI-PD170 test, November 2023 · 2023
Manufacturer claim

Communication distance

≥ 250 km[1]AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · line of sight · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01
Published lower limit

Same-class research profiles · published range, km · open bounds remain open

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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 · Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR1 m
Human · illustrative 1.8 m · AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table

12.5 m / 24 m[1]

Size in everyday terms

One scale. Different machines.

Top view
Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR · 12.5 m / 24 mHuman reference · illustrative 1.8 m1 m
Side view · schematic
Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR · 12.5 mHuman reference · illustrative 1.8 m1 m

Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR · AKSUNGUR · current Turkish Aerospace technical table · 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

Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR

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

Form, sound & identification limits

  • The table gives 12.5 m length, 24 m span, 3,300 kg MTOW, 750+ kg payload and up to 50 hours. The prose separately advertises one tonne of payload. Those payload claims are not averaged or treated as one measured interval.[1]
  • The manufacturer reports a 41-hour national-engine flight in November 2023. This specific test report is separate from the 50-hour table maximum. Turkey’s ministry separately records a naval acceptance ceremony in December 2023; it does not certify those flight values.[1][2]
  • The published 250+ km datalink reach and 5,000+ km SATCOM reach remain communications claims. Neither is used as a flight-range bar. Sharing avionics with ANKA is not an interchangeable-airframe claim.[1]

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. Turkish Aerospace · AKSUNGUR current technical data and flight-test narrative

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

  2. Ministry of National Defence of Türkiye · December 2023 briefing: naval AKSUNGUR acceptance

    Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Official report; not an independent test

    Consulted via search index; direct page unavailable

Cite this profile

DroneLedger. Turkish Aerospace AKSUNGUR. Research edition 2026-11-01. https://droneincidents.com/drones/tai-aksungur/

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