Turkish ANKA-3 drone passes key combat test with Super Şimşek missile VIDEO

The Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) has successfully completed another round of live-fire tests for its ANKA-3 strike drone.

According to a post on TUSAŞ’s official social media page, the ANKA-3 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by the company, completed its live-fire tests, successfully releasing the Super Şimşek target missile from beneath its wing, Caliber.Az reports.

ANKA III’ten hedefe süper atış! 🎯

ANKA III, Süper Şimşek’i kanat altından bırakarak bir başarıya daha imza attı. ✈️💪🏻

Millî mühendislik gücümüzle hedeflerimize doğru kararlı adımlarla ilerliyoruz.

Kat ettiğimiz yollarda aldığımız başarılar, gelecek için ilham olmaya… pic.twitter.com/8Hnc8yBNKX

— Türk Havacılık Uzay Sanayii (@TUSAS_TR) April 8, 2025

The company expressed its confidence in the progress made, stating, "We are making decisive strides towards achieving our goals, using our national engineering power. The successes we have achieved on this path continue to inspire us for the future."

The Super Şimşek, also referred to as Şimşek-3, is a 200 kg target missile capable of flying at speeds of 0.8-0.9 Mach. It is designed for electronic support and attack missions, as well as for creating false targets by distributing tasks across swarms of accompanying platforms. Furthermore, the missile can serve as a cruise missile, targeting critical installations such as air defense systems with its 35 kg warhead.

This success follows the ANKA-III’s previous test, where it successfully struck a target using the LGK-82 precision-guided bomb, developed by ASELSAN.

By Khagan Isayev