Bayraktar TB2 Hits Targets With Air-Launched Skydagger FPV Drones

Baykar said a Bayraktar TB2 lifted from the Keşan Flight Training and Test Center in Edirne province on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, carrying 16 Skydagger first-person-view kamikaze drones. Over the range it released two. The TB2 then acted as the radio relay so operators, not a ground mast, could fly those two into marked targets.

The company called the hits pinpoint. FPV drones show the operator a camera view from the airframe. The test is an add-on to a type that has been in Turkish Armed Forces service since 2014 and armed since 2015 with laser designation and up to four Roketsan MAM-L or MAM-C munitions.

Key details

• Sixteen Skydagger drones were loaded; two were expended in the published trial.
• Baykar said the TB2 fleet passed 1 million flight hours in 2024.
• Export tally given by Baykar: 36 countries for TB2, 16 for Akıncı, 39 countries across both, $2.2 billion export volume in 2025, about 90% of revenue from exports in recent years.

Baykar said operators independent of the ground steered the two released drones through a TB2 relay and struck the designated targets.

Why it matters

Until now the published TB2 strike kit was the MAM family hung on the wing. An air-launched FPV that still talks through the mothership is a different shot: many small warheads, one relay aircraft, no extra ground antenna on the range.