Turkish UAVs to integrate SUNGUR missiles of local production PHOTO

At the SAHA EXPO-2022 exhibition in Istanbul, the Turkish defence companies ROKETSAN and Baykar Teknoloji signed an agreement to integrate the SUNGUR anti-aircraft missile into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of local production.

Defence Turk reported about the relevant agreement on Twitter, according to Caliber.Az.

🛡️🇹🇷SUNGUR hava savunma füzesi SİHA'lara entegre edilecek!

🔸ROKETSAN ve Baykar Teknoloji SUNGUR hava savunma füzesinin SİHA'lara entegrasyonu için sözleşme imzaladı
🔸AKINCI, Bayraktar TB2 ve KIZILELMA'ya SUNGUR hava-hava füzesi
🖇️@BaykarTech @roketsan https://t.co/g5f4iHd6Ru

— DEFENCE TURK (@Defence_Turk) October 27, 2022

The SUNGUR anti-aircraft missile can be used as an air-to-air missile not only in Bayraktar TB2 and AKINCI drones but also in KIZILELMA, possibly with BOZDOĞAN and GÖKDOĞAN in the future, which will provide new opportunities.

The integration of SUNGUR missiles into AKINCI and TB2 could pave the way for a low-cost air patrol concept to deal with threats such as attack helicopters and enemy UAVs. In particular, Israel's use of expensive Python-5 air-to-air missiles from F-16 aircraft against kamikaze drones, or Ukraine's interception of kamikaze drones used by Russia with MiG-29 aircraft, underlines the need to find new ways to counter low-cost, but currently high-cost threats such as UAVs.

Given the duration of the UAV's stay in the air, long and low-cost patrol flights can be carried out against such threats. SUNGUR, which has a current hit range of 8.5 km, will be able to achieve a greater range and higher altitude if launched at a certain altitude and muzzle velocity.