TAI Pelikan

TAI Pelikan
Role Unmanned drone reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition
Manufacturer Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)
First flight 15 December 2003
Status Only prototypes are produced, program ended.

TAI Pelikan, aka IHA-X2, is a radio-controlled reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition drone. Designed, developed and built by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a half scale model of the tactical drone TAI Baykuş air platform. It was produced as a training and bridge platform to the TAI Baykuş.

Pelikan is the Turkish word for species pelican. TAI has some other UAV's named after birds.

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