Role & capabilities
- Multirole aircraft
- Automated short-deck and runway operations
- EO/IR; electronic-intelligence and surveillance-radar options
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Baykar
- Origin / production countries
- Türkiye
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Land and maritime configurations
- Operators / programme customers
- Turkish naval exercise deployment reported by Baykar
Evidence & current status
Status and performance are attributed to the supplier. They do not establish an independently audited fleet size or effectiveness rate.
Role & programme
A folding-wing, ship-compatible aircraft developed for short-deck operations. Baykar reported a deployment aboard TCG Anadolu during NATO’s February 2026 Steadfast Dart exercise.
The exercise report is newer and more specific than the product page’s broad development wording. It supports an account of naval demonstration and deployment, not an independently verified fleet-wide operational capability. The table uses the current TB3 product page; its land and maritime versions should be tracked separately when customer-specific information becomes available.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Folding-wing fixed-wing naval/land aircraft | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Automated short-deck and runway operations | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | 170 hp turbodiesel | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | 14 m span; 8.35 m length; 2.6 m height | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Mass | 1,600 kg maximum take-off mass | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | 24+ h | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Speed | 110 KTAS cruise; 130 KTAS maximum | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | 20,000 ft operational; 25,000 ft ceiling | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Payload | 280 kg | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | EO/IR; electronic-intelligence and surveillance-radar options | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | LOS and BLOS links | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
Documented milestones
NATO exercise demonstration
Baykar reported TB3 activity from TCG Anadolu; supplier account published 15 February.
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Publication history
- — Expanded catalogue profile with sourced specifications, variant distinctions, programme evidence and explicit public data gaps.
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