Turkish drone manufacturing giant Baykar announced on Saturday last week that it had reached a new phase in its unmanned combat aircraft project, revealing the first prototype had entered the production line. "A bigger and more agile 'fish' has hit the production line three and a half years later," Selçuk Bayraktar, chief technology officer (CTO) at the drone maker, said on Twitter. Bayraktar refers to the period when Baykar started producing the famous Akıncı combat drone, nicknamed the 'flying fish'. The National Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle System (MIUS) is named after the Bayraktar Kızılelma (red apple), referring to an expression in Turkish mythology that symbolizes a distant but more exciting goal, idea or dream.

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