Turkey Launches New Kamikaze Drone Skydagger Toyca-05

Preparation for the launch of Skydagger Toyca-05 (Skydagger Source)

JAKARTA - Turkey's defense industry late last month introduced a new fixed-wing kamikaze drone (FPV) and successfully tested the integration of air launch with other unmanned aerial vehicles, as the country added new systems and operational concepts to its growing fleet of mini UAVs.

The new system is a product of Skydagger, which started producing FPV kamikaze drones last year and has since built a series of rotary wing systems. Now they have expanded to a fixed wing design.

Haluk Bayraktar, general manager of the drone company Baykar, said the new system was named Skydagger Toyca-05, and called it Turkey's latest kamikaze swarm UAV, reported by Daily Sabah (24/12).

A video on his social media platform, X, shows a fixed-wing drone being launched from a catapult and performing aggressive maneuvers.

Toyca-05 has a range of 70 kilometers (43 miles), a 5-kilogram high-explosive warhead, swarm mesh communication, anti-jamming protection, and FPV and full autonomous flight modes, according to Baykar.

Meanwhile, Skydagger itself is known to have the capacity to produce more than 30,000 units of fixed-wing drones every year.

The company separately also released a recording of an important trial for the Turkish defense industry: a successful air launch of the FPV Skydagger 7 kamikaze drone from Baykar's Bayraktar KALKAN VTOL UAV.

The trial marks the integration of two different UAV systems operating together.

The Kalkan VTOL drone, which is typically used for reconnaissance, surveillance, and intelligence missions, can also serve as an air launch platform for smaller munitions or kamikaze drones.

This configuration can significantly increase the range and endurance of deployed drones.