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Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle and unmanned combat air vehicle (armed variant)
Vestel Karayel is a medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle and unmanned combat air vehicle (armed variant) originating in Turkey. It was built by Lentatek. Reported operators include Turkish Armed Forces Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia.
TurkeyMedium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle and unmanned combat air vehicle (armed variant)
Turkey
Lentatek
Turkish Armed Forces Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
16+
30 April 2014
none on-board
6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
550 kg (1,213 lb)
1 × unspecified , 72 kW (97 hp)
single blade, 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) diameter
150 km/h (92 mph, 80 kn)
20 hours
6,900 m (22,500 ft)
Saudi Arabia - 6 Karayel UAVs in use, with another 40 to be deployed since 2021 in a timeframe of 5 years for the Saudi Armed forces.
Turkey - 10 Karayel-SU-TUAV-SOTM.
Hungary - The drone was tested at the Pápa Air Base on 4 November 2021. There are also plans to produce a variant of the drone in Békéscsaba in a joint German-Turkish-Hungarian operation.
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Vestel Karayel equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Turkish Armed Forces Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia
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Hungary
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Saudi Arabia