RobotRisk / Turkish Aerospace Industries / 2025-06

TAI Anka-3 UCAV prototype lost in hard-landing crash near Konya

S4 · 06/2025 · Turkish Aerospace Industries · Konya, Turkey

Record

Company	Turkish Aerospace Industries
Category	defense space
Type	crash
Date	06/2025
Time of day	not documented
Location	Konya, Turkey
Severity	S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale	-
Confidence	medium
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	Aviation Week / Militarnyi

What happened

One of two TAI Anka-3 unmanned combat aerial vehicle prototypes was lost in a hard-landing crash in the Selcuklu district near Konya, Turkey, during the Anatolian Eagle 2025 exercise; the prototype made an emergency landing in an open field rather than a controlled recovery.

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