Saudi Crown Prince Salman, Turkey and Anka-B UAV
Posted on: Fri, May 24, 2013

Saudi Crown Prince Salman, who also acts as Deputy PM and Defence Minister, is said to have agreed with Turkish officials, during his visit to Turkey earlier this week, to order unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of type Anka, including the type of Anka-B which can fire air-to-ground missiles. The following 408-word report sheds more light on the subject and tells what about the Saudi-Turkish agreement. Note that Anka UAV variants are made by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

http://www.tacticalreport.com/view_n...nka-B_UAV/3362

Anka-B UCAV Spec
ANKA-B will have the following payload:

16- Roketsan Cirit 70mm Semi-Active Laser guided missiles and
4 - UMTAS anti-tank missiles/ or Hellfire missiles
ASELFLIR-300T (next generation also used in the Agusta/TAI T-129 Attack helicopter and Turkish Heron's)
Electro-Optical Day Camera (EO Day TV)
Day Camera (EO-Electro Optic)
Thermal Camera (IR-Infrared)
LRF-Laser Range Finder
LD-Laser Designator and Spotter
SAR-Synthetic Aperture Radar
MTI- Moving Target Indicator
ISAR-Inverse SAR