New drones for Croatia: Turkish manufacturer Baykar has announced the sale of six Bayraktar TB2s to the south-eastern European country. The order is worth 67 million euros.
The contract was signed in the Croatian capital Zagreb in the presence of Croatian Defense Minister Ivan Anušić and Baykar Managing Director Haluk Bayraktar.
In addition to purely military missions, the Bayraktar TB2s are also suitable for civilian tasks such as disaster relief, search and rescue missions, monitoring irregular migration and fighting forest fires.
According to the Croatian Minister of Defense, the agreement concerns the six drone systems as well as the training of Croatian soldiers and drone operators. According to unconfirmed reports, operational deployment is set to begin as early as the end of 2025, although some media outlets are also reporting that the first TB2s will not be delivered until early 2026. The Croatian Ministry of Defense has not provided any precise details on this.
With this agreement, another member state of NATO and the European Union has added the Bayraktar TB2 to its inventory. The Turkish manufacturer now has its TB2 under contract in 35 countries, and with the TB3, the potential successor is already in the starting blocks. According to Baykar, a TB3 was only recently was the first UCAV in the world to take off and land on an aircraft carrier with a short runway.
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