Turkish Company To Build New Anka Engine

Turkish Company To Build New Anka Engine

צילום: TAI

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Turkish national engine specialist Tusas Turkish Engine Industries (TEI), will build a new engine for the country’s indigenous UAV.

Photo: TAI
Photo: TAI

TEI has created a task force among its more than 200 design engineers to build a new engine for the Anka, Turkey’s indigenously developed drone, and some TEI engineers are working with GE Aviation’s engine designers in Turkey.

The program became more important when the expected engine provider became bankrupt and was bought by a company that would not provide theengines. According to Defense News TEI officials said foreign sales could be possible within two years after the engine passes performance tests with the Anka. A procurement official said engine exports may not be limited to the US.

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Turkey’s procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), signed in December 2012 a contract with TEI to produce five prototype engines for the Anka. The design, production and certification tests would take four years, according to the contract.

The Anka is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drone. Such UAVs usually can operate for 24 hours at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Anka, meaning Phoenix, is the first MALE-type UAV to be produced by TAI. One of the prototypes crashed during a test flight in September but several other flight tests have been carried out successfully.