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Baykar's Kizilelma unmanned fighter aircraft (UFA) has completed a performance verification test with Aselsan's Toygun 100 electro-optical targeting system (EOTS), successfully tracking a moving vehicle on a highway and demonstrating the sensor's precise targeting capabilities, designed for Turkish stealth platforms.
"Platform-integrated Electro-Optical Sensor and Targeting System: Aselsan Toygun—the game-changing national eye of Bayraktar Kizilelma," Aselsan said.
The test saw Toygun track a moving truck on a highway from aboard Kizilelma, keeping the target dead-center and demonstrating the system's ability to maintain precision lock during dynamic conditions.
Aselsan CEO Ahmet Akyol described Toygun as a "force multiplier national eye" and "a game-changing capability for the most critical missions requiring low observability."
Toygun is a body-integrated electro-optical sensor and targeting system specifically designed for manned and unmanned fixed-wing combat air platforms.
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The system is fitted with an HD mid-wave infrared (MWIR) thermal camera with 1,280x1,024 pixel resolution and a laser designator with a range of 35 kilometers.
The system features four-axis mechanical plus two-axis optical stabilization, single and multi-target tracking, automatic target recognition and laser range finding and target designation capabilities.
Toygun is compatible with both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.
In addition to its primary use as an air-to-surface intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance sensor, Toygun can function as an infrared search and track system for air-to-air use, complementing the dedicated KARAT IRST in terms of elevation coverage.
Toygun is one of three targeting sensors planned for Kizilelma, alongside the MURAD 100-A active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, which is in initial production, with the MURAD 200-A featuring improved low-probability-of-intercept capabilities planned, and the KARAT infrared search-and-track system.
The tests with Toygun aboard Kizilelma also contribute directly to the fielding of the EOTS on the KAAN fifth-generation fighter jet and TAI's ANKA-III stealthy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), sharing critical integration data across multiple stealth platforms.
Defense analysts noted that the rapid integration and "fly and test" approach significantly accelerates the product development cycle.
They also emphasized that body-integrated EOTS systems, such as Toygun, are fundamentally different from pod-mounted systems, such as the Aselpod, and require more complex integration to maintain low-observable characteristics.
Another milestone in the first quarter of 2026 for Kizilelma is the integration of Aselsan's FEWS-U electronic warfare self-protection system, which has completed its first flight test after integration on the unmanned fighter.
The FEWS-U system features 360-degree coverage, high accuracy in direction-of-arrival detection and fast threat detection and identification capabilities.
The combination of Toygun's precision targeting, MURAD AESA radar, KARAT IRST and FEWS-U electronic warfare suite positions Kizilelma as a fully sensor-equipped unmanned combat platform capable of operating in contested environments.
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