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Turkish Aerospace ANKA

A compact selection from this profile, with sources and limits. Other configurations and additional measurements remain in the full profile.

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A Turkish medium-altitude, long-endurance reconnaissance and strike family, including the satellite-linked ANKA-S. A Kazakh defence-ministry account of troop trials provides a separate user-side evidence origin. The current manufacturer table defines this edition’s numerical baseline; it does not establish every export configuration and must not be applied to the unrelated flying-wing ANKA III.^[1][2]

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

Schematic top view of the general configuration. Not to scale and not an exact depiction of the model.

The numbers, with their sources

Body length	8.6 m^[1]ANKA · current Turkish Aerospace web table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01 Manufacturer claim
Wingspan	17.5 m^[1]ANKA · current Turkish Aerospace web table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01 Manufacturer claim
Take-off mass	≤ 1700 kg^[1]ANKA · current Turkish Aerospace web table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01 Published upper limit
Payload	≥ 350 kg^[1]ANKA · current Turkish Aerospace web table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01 Published lower limit
Endurance	≤ 30 h^[1]ANKA · current Turkish Aerospace web table · Publication year unknown · consulted 2026-11-01 Published upper limit

Form, sound & identification limits

The current web table says up to 30 hours. Older “30+” brochures are not merged with it. Length 8.6 m and span 17.5 m belong to the same current table; all remain manufacturer claims.^[1]
Kazakhstan’s ministry says ANKA passed experimental troop trials and entered service. This confirms its own acceptance account, not the outcome of every test or the accuracy of all advertised performance figures.^[2]
Line-of-sight datalink and satellite communication ranges are communication metrics, not total flight distances. A common ground segment with AKSUNGUR does not mean the aircraft have the same mass, payload or endurance.^[1]

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

Source notebook

Turkish Aerospace · ANKA current technical data
Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Manufacturer claim
Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan · Year review: ANKA passed troop trials and entered service
Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Official report; not an independent test
Consulted via search index; direct page unavailable

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DroneLedger. Turkish Aerospace ANKA. 2026-11-01. https://droneincidents.com/drones/tai-anka/editions/2026-11-01/

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