Bayraktar TB2

Baykar, a privately held Turkish family firm founded in the 1980s by Ozdemir Bayraktar and led today by chief technology officer Selcuk Bayraktar, who developed the platform, and chief executive Haluk Bayraktar, makes the Bayraktar TB2, the most combat-proven armed drone in the world. The TB2 is a medium-altitude armed uncrewed aircraft with more than twenty hours of endurance, a 150-kilogram payload, and Roketsan laser-guided munitions, flown with triple-redundant flight control that handles autonomous taxi, takeoff, cruise, and landing. More than 800 have been built, accumulating roughly a million flight hours by December 2024, and they have seen combat in Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, and Ethiopia, the deepest verified combat record of any armed drone and the platform's distinguishing registry fact. The company also builds the larger twin-engine Akinci, with 110 delivered by January 2026, and the jet-powered Kizilelma, which has five prototypes and two serial aircraft with a first Turkish Armed Forces delivery expected in the first quarter of 2026, and it reported a 2.2-billion-dollar export record in 2025. Honestly characterized, the TB2 is remotely piloted with autonomous flight functions but a human in the loop for targeting and weapons release, not a fully autonomous AI strike drone, while Kizilelma is being developed toward higher autonomy but remains pre-fielding. The registry records the TB2 and Akinci at production maturity and Kizilelma as an early, pre-fielding sibling, and notes that the export-country count has a thirty-four-versus-twenty-eight discrepancy across sources, that the 250-per-year production figure is an unaudited capacity claim, and that the 2.2-billion-dollar export figure is company and Turkish-media sourced.

Bayraktar TB2 is listed at $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an actual sale price on record.

Yes. Bayraktar TB2 is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Bayraktar TB2's recorded specifications on the DEPLOY registry: Range: 300 km; Endurance: 27 h; Max speed: 110 KTAS; Weight: 700 kg; Payload: 150 kg. See the Specs section for the full sourced set.

Bayraktar TB2 is made by Baykar, based in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1984.

4 verified deployments of Bayraktar TB2 are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kuwait.

Bayraktar TB2 is available for purchase - a real sale price is on record (see the pricing section for the figure and its source).

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable aerial robots to Bayraktar TB2 include Wing Delivery Aircraft, Skydio X10, Zipline Platform 2 (P2), Prime Air MK30.

Bayraktar TB2 and Wing Delivery Aircraft (Wing · 35 deployments) are both aerial robots on the DEPLOY registry. Bayraktar TB2 has 4 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Bayraktar TB2 ranks in roughly the top 8% of aerial models tracked by the registry.

Bayraktar TB2 is at the production stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Production stage means high-volume manufacture and commercial-scale deployments are sustained.

Bayraktar TB2 has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

The Bayraktar TB2 is not obsolete, but its role has shifted. By June 2023 in Ukraine, remaining TB2 drones transitioned from attack missions to reconnaissance, staying out of range of Russian air defenses. The TB2 remains combat-proven and in active production, but its frontline strike role has been largely supplanted by newer systems. BAYKAR is developing extended range and payload upgrades to extend its service life.