Turkish company Pasifik Technology has signed a contract to supply 100,000 MERKUT FPV kamikaze drones and four additional types of unmanned systems to an undisclosed country.
According to the website Defence Blog, the contract, which represents one of the largest publicly announced single drone export agreements by a Turkish defense company, covers five different unmanned platforms across the air and ground domains.
The centerpiece of the deal is 100,000 units of the MERKUT FPV kamikaze drone system, complemented by 10 ALPIN unmanned helicopters, 25 DUMRUL mini unmanned helicopters developed by Titra Technology, 500 DELİ tactical kamikaze drones, and 500 KORGAN autonomous ground support and surveillance units.
It is a package of 101,035 unmanned systems for an undisclosed buyer country. The value of the contract was also not disclosed in the company’s announcement.
The MERKUT FPV kamikaze drone offers 20 to 30 minutes of flight endurance and an operational range of up to 8 kilometers. It features a thermal camera that enables day and night engagements regardless of weather conditions, a high-security fuze system, and an automatic detonation feature with proximity sensors that trigger the warhead without requiring the operator to make a manual detonation decision at the moment of impact.
With that in mind, an order for 100,000 units of a system with these specifications signals that the buyer country intends to field FPV drones not as a supplementary capability, but as a mass attrition weapon in the same way Ukrainian and Russian forces have used them since 2023.
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