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Bayraktar Akıncı drone crashes in Libya

S4 · 01/2025 · Baykar · Libya

Record

CompanyBaykar
Categorydefense space
Typecrash
Date01/2025
Time of daynot documented
LocationLibya
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale-
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceMilitary Africa

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A Turkish-made Bayraktar Akıncı combat drone crashed in Libya (reported by Military Africa).

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