Baykar AI-Enabled Drone Swarms and Missiles Destroy Targets in Turkish Military Exercise
2026-10-15 | TUR | hazard | economic
Our take
The drones found the targets and destroyed them, which was the plan. The tag on this entry says ECONOMIC.
The facts
During the Ateş Serbest-2026 military exercise in Polatlı, Turkey, Baykar's AI-powered unmanned aerial vehicles and munitions—including autonomous drone swarms and AI-guided missiles—coordinated to identify and destroy targets. The exercise demonstrated the operational use of lethal autonomous AI systems, resulting in the destruction of designated targets.