TAI Baykuş

The TAI Baykuş is a radio-controlled tactical unmanned aerial vehicle designed, developed and built by Turkish Aerospace Industries between 2003 and 2004. Its name is the Turkish word for owl, and it is one of several drones of the company named after birds. It was developed from the experience gained with its half-sized model, the TAI Pelikan. The shoulder-winged aircraft has an all-composite airframe with metal twin tail booms and is propelled by two two-cylinder two-stroke gasoline engines of 20 horsepower each, in either a pusher or a tractor propeller layout. It carries a two-axis gimbaled electro-optical and infrared camera that relays video in real time, flies autonomously by inertial and satellite waypoint navigation, and takes off and lands conventionally on wheels.