On Tuesday, Teknofest, Turkey's premier aerospace and technology festival, kicked off in the Black Sea city of Samsun in Turkey.. The six-day event, organized at Samsun Carsamba Airport, will include an air show featuring combat aircraft, drones and helicopters, as well as workshops, summits and competitions, Anadolu reported..

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This year, the festival will host technology competitions in more than 40 different categories, including semiconductors, UAVs, satellites, rockets, robotics and artificial intelligence..

“Our northern neighbor Ukraine continues to kill women and children in front of the whole world,” said Selcuk Bayraktar, Chairman of the Turkish Technology Team (T3 Foundation) on the opening day of the event..

While it is known that BAYKAR Teknoloji has completed the second prototype of the Bayraktar Kizilelma jet attack drone, Bayraktar from BAYKAR said.

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First flights of both prototypes are expected in 2023..

Bayraktar Kizilelma is a reactive supersonic stealth carrier-based UAV, it is expected to have an operating height of 12 thousand meters, a takeoff weight of 5.5 tons, a load of 1.5 tons.

The carrying capacity of the ammunition of the device will be 1 ton.

Recall that in November last year, the mentioned Turkish defense company ordered AI-322F and AI-25TLT jet engines from the Ukrainian state enterprise Ivchenko-Progress.

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The MIUS-A model UAV with the Ukrainian AI-25TLT engine will be close to supersonic speed, and the MIUS-B model will be supersonic with the Ukrainian AI-322F engine and the Turkish TEI TF-6000.