“Türkiye has 65 percent of the global UAV market”

The “Take Off Istanbul” event, organized under the leadership of the Turkey Technology Team Foundation, under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and Technology and the Presidential Investment Office, and within the framework of the global communications partnership of Anadolu Agency (AA), ended after the Graduation ceremony.

Baykar CEO Selçuk Bayraktar, who attended the closing ceremony, visited the companies that opened stands at the Istanbul Fair Center as part of “Take Off Istanbul” and took a commemorative photo with the participants.

At the closing ceremony, Bayraktar told Baykar's story and said: “In 2004, when unmanned aerial vehicles were not yet known in the world, Baykar developed Turkey's first robotic guidance system and the first mini unmanned aerial vehicle. In 2007, the first national.” “The unmanned aerial vehicle was accepted into the inventory of the Turkish Armed Forces.” “The vehicle gradually became Bayraktar Mini UAV, this platform grew and Bayraktar TB1 flew in 2009.”

“Türkiye has 65 percent of the global UAV market”

Explaining that Bayraktar TB2, the world's most famous UAV, flew in 2014, Bayraktar said: “Bayraktar AKINCI made its first flight in 2019. AKINCI has already been exported to 10 countries. Bayraktar TB2 takes the title of the UAV that is exported to the “In most countries in the world, Turkey has 65 percent of the global UAV market, and Baykar alone has almost 60 percent of this market. “We are an unmanned aviation company,” he said.

Bayraktar explained that Turkey's first unmanned combat aircraft, KIZILELMA, made its first flight in 2022, about a year ahead of the promised date: “Bayraktar TB3 made its first flight in 2023. Bayraktar TB3 became the world's first UCAV platform “The first trials were carried out last month and Bayraktar TB3 has started mass production,” he said.

“Baykar has been the world’s largest unmanned aerial vehicle company for three years.”

Emphasizing that Baykar's story is an entrepreneurial story that starts with a small team and continues until it becomes a large family, Bayraktar said: “This is an entrepreneurial story that continues and grows without giving up its original values , and then encompasses the whole thing.” With our Turkey Technology Foundation, Baykar has been the world’s largest company for unmanned aerial vehicles for three years. It is now three times larger than its nearest American rival, which has been preparing for yesterday's or today's races. Questions arose: As a continuation of this vision, we founded our space company called Fergani. If you ask where all these resources come from, more than 90 percent of Baykar's revenue comes from export work to invest in technology,” he said.

Bayraktar explained that as Baykar, they have been working in the field of artificial intelligence for years. One of them is that we make robotic vehicles that we call situational awareness. “It senses the environment with its sensors and develops situational awareness,” Bayraktar continued:

“Another work we are working on is that we have tools that can increase flight safety, make it easier to navigate the aircraft or interpret the data read by the aircraft's sensors and check if they are erroneous, and the Accident statistics of the aircraft can be transmitted.” The aircraft continues, which happens once in 100 million hours. There is artificial intelligence that can help with short- and long-term planning.” Additionally, our work on natural language processing continues, especially recently. We will now give KIZILELMA commands by speaking. “If the conditions are suitable, start the engine and start the transmission by obtaining the necessary authorizations from the tower.” “It will decipher all the language, talk to the tower and perform this advanced function according to the instructions from there. “

Bayraktar stated that they started working on the Turkish language model T3 AI a year ago to develop a large language model specifically for Turkish and that they developed the model as an open source language model.

After Bayraktar's speech, the award ceremony took place in the program. The companies Novus, Harikatech, Nanomik and Nanocycle won prizes worth $250,000 at Take Off Istanbul.