The SATCOM version of the Karayel UAV was exhibited for the first time in the EFES-2022 exercise

Lentatek exhibited the UAVs it developed in different classes in the exhibition area created as part of the EFES-2022 Combined Joint Actual Fire Field Exercise. In this context, Karayel UAV, which gained control over satellite (SATCOM) capability, was introduced for the first time.

Boundaries have been removed with SATCOM

Karayel product family, which gained SATCOM feature; It will be able to maintain its instant target detection, tracking and destruction capabilities beyond the line of sight, in day and night conditions, by autonomous flight and navigation, independent of range limitations.

Lentatek General Manager Öner Tekin stated that they exhibited the latest version of Karayel with a long wing, maximum load carrying capacity and SATCOM integrated at the same time within the scope of EFES-2022, and said:

“Our Armed Forces is in the form of service procurement. He used Karayel between 2015 and 2017. Since then, we have continuously made new developments on Karayel. Karayel has capabilities above its tactical class. It has become an optimum aircraft in terms of the load it carries according to its weight. It can serve for many different purposes. Observation, mapping It can be used in a wide range of areas such as security, forest fire detection and monitoring.”

Noting that Karayel’s flight time is approximately 40 thousand hours, Tekin said, “Because it has superior features and triple redundant avionic architecture, Karayel has not experienced any technical failures so far. This is actually a world record. “We made it an aircraft produced in accordance with NATO standards, which is the most basic international criterion, so that it can be flown in a civilian environment. This made our product very competitive in the world and carried it to a different place.” said

Emphasizing that communication is the most basic need of a UAV, Tekin used the following expressions:

If you can carry it, you expand the area where you can operate or use your vehicle effectively. With SATCOM, we have taken this to the next level. Thus, it has removed the limit created by the communication system on the range of the aircraft. This is a very critical technology for the UAV. Our friends have successfully integrated it “As it stands, it is one of the few systems in the world. Karayel can work and be used with SATCOM.”

can operate with 120 kilograms of ammunition

Armed, long range Karayel can operate with a total of 120 kilograms of ammunition, with 4 stations each capable of carrying 30 kilograms of ammunition. The stations on the wing can be developed in a modular structure and can carry different loads besides ammunition.

Karayel, with its unique triple redundant distributed avionics architectural feature that provides protection against all kinds of uncontrolled crashes, brought systematic error safety, which has only been used in manned aviation worldwide, to a UAV for the first time.