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Exercise · Completed

Exercise Ateş Serbest-2026

The Turkish Land Forces show drone swarms, a counter-drone laser and drone-launched munitions.

On the observer day (13 October) Baykar showed AKINCI controlling a swarm of about 30 SİVRİSİNEK loitering munitions, and 10 K2 munitions attacking autonomously. MKE’s 20 kW laser for the TOLGA counter-drone system shot down a quadcopter at 760 m (per TurDef).

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