Indonesia has announced it’ll purchase 12 Turkish-made ANKA drones for $300M, with the first shipment expected to arrive in November 2025.
Drones have become some of Turkey’s highest-profile exports. Just in the last month:
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait purchased $367M of TB2 drones from the firm Baykar
- 🇽🇰 Kosovo also bought an undisclosed number of TB2s, and
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sealed Turkey’s largest ever defence export deal, buying ~$1B worth of Baykar’s newer Akinci drones.
Plus, there are another 30 countries that own and operate Turkish drones, which have appeared on battlefields around Libya, Azerbaijan, Syria, Ukraine and beyond.
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Intrigue’s take: You can see why Turkey’s drones are popular – they’re durable, effective, and cheap. Hence their reputation as the ‘Toyota Corolla of drones’.
And Turkey itself benefits, too: it needs the export revenue, plus having nations dependent on it for defence kit gives Ankara leverage.
Also worth noting:
- Foreign sales accounted for 90% of Baykar’s revenues in 2022.
- Baykar’s chair and chief technology officer is married to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s daughter.
