Turkey to Start VTOL Cargo Drone Production in 2021

Turkey plans to commence serial production of its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Cargo UAV next year.

Turkish Aviation and Space Industry

Ismail Demir, Turkey’s President of Defense Industries (SSB) tweeted Monday.

The drone is designed to provide logistics support to soldiers in battlefield. It can remain in the air for an hour and has useful load capacity of 50 kg, Demir claims.

“We continue our work on the system that will carry 150 kg of useful load in our projects,” he added.

Turkish Aerospace tweeted:With our Vertical Landing and Take-off Cargo UAV project, the logistics support of our Turkish Armed Forces needs in mountainous lands will be met quickly and safely.

Sources: Defense World; Twitter