It became known when the Bayraktar drone production plant in Ukraine will be completed.

The Turkish company Baykar plans to complete the construction of the Bayraktar drone production plant in Ukraine by August 2025, reports Reuters.

According to the CEO Haluk Bayraktar, the plant is already 80% ready, and the necessary equipment has been ordered. The start of production will depend on the development of the war, but the facility will be ready by the specified date.

The plant will produce Bayraktar TB2 drones or their upgraded version, the TB3, which is capable of carrying a larger payload.

The Baykar company is also investing 300 million dollars over the next five years in developing a turboprop engine for the Akinci drone. After this, the company will develop a turbojet engine for the Kizilelma - an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for air combat, which is currently undergoing flight tests.

The Akinci and Kizilelma currently use Ukrainian-made engines. Recently, the company also signed an agreement with the Ukrainian SE Ivchenko-Progress for the joint development of a turbojet engine, noted Bayraktar.

In the long term, the company is betting that autonomous drones capable of air combat will replace fighter jets.

"There are 13,000 manned fighter jets in the world, and we believe that over the next four decades all of them will become autonomous," said Bayraktar.

"They will be smaller, used in more risky missions, and easier to produce. Their numbers will be an order of magnitude higher than the number of fighter jets we have today," he added.