December 9, 2025, 3:02 pm
In late November , a live-fire test by Turkey’s drone maker Baykar captured global attention: its jet-powered unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), the Kızılelma, successfully launched a domestically developed beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile — the Gökdoğan — and destroyed a high-speed, jet-powered target.
This marked the first publicly confirmed instance of a UAV achieving a radar-guided air-to-air kill. What had once been the exclusive domain of manned fighters is now being challenged — a moment many analysts view as the dawn of a fundamentally different era in aerial warfare.
In this video, Defense Updates analyzes why Kizilelma drone downing aerial target with radar guided missile initiates new paradigm in warfare?
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Chapters:
0:00 TITLE
00:11 INTRODUCTION
01:02 SPONSORSHIP – NordVPN
01:36 THE TEST
02:34 TECHNICAL ENABLERS
04:04 A NEW AIR-WARFARE PARADIGM
07:00 ANALYSIS
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