TAI Pelikan

The TAI Pelikan, also known as the IHA-X2, is a radio-controlled reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition drone designed, developed and built by Turkish Aerospace Industries. It is a half-scale model of the tactical TAI Baykuş air platform, produced as a training and bridge platform toward that larger drone, and its name is the Turkish word for pelican. The shoulder-winged aircraft has an all-composite airframe with metal twin tail booms and is propelled by two Zenoah G38 two-cylinder two-stroke gasoline engines, in either a pusher or a tractor version. It carries a two-axis gimbaled electro-optical and infrared camera, navigates autonomously by inertial and satellite waypoints and takes off and lands on wheels, with a listed endurance of six hours and a maximum take-off weight of 35 kilograms.