Skydagger Unveils TOYCA-10E, a 250 km Turkish Kamikaze Drone
Skydagger, the Baykar-backed drone maker that built its business exporting disposable FPV attack drones by the tens of thousands, has unveiled a considerably longer-legged weapon. The TOYCA-10E, announced on September 20, is a fixed-wing, catapult-launched loitering munition rated for a 250-kilometre strike range with a 10-kilogram warhead — a five-fold range increase over the TOYCA-05 that started the product line less than a year ago.
The announcement, carried by Turkish outlets including RayHaber and ShiftDelete.Net, gives a partial technical picture. Skydagger says the TOYCA-10E flies on electric propulsion, launches from a portable catapult rail with no runway required, and can complete its entire mission — launch, cruise and terminal dive onto the target — autonomously through the company’s in-house “Flight Planner” software. The company also cites anti-jam protection intended to keep the drone functional in contested electronic-warfare environments, a feature increasingly demanded by militaries watching drone warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Dimensions, cruise speed, endurance and the exact guidance package were not disclosed at launch, and Skydagger has not announced a Turkish Armed Forces order or an export customer specific to the 10E variant. Those gaps are worth flagging plainly: this is a manufacturer unveiling, not a confirmed contract.
From FPV drones to a family of strike systems
Skydagger only began producing drones in 2024, growing out of Baykar‘s practice of bundling low-cost FPV kamikaze drones with Bayraktar TB2 export packages. The company has since become a standalone manufacturing story: Turkish officials and company executives have described annual FPV production capacity around 120,000 units, and Skydagger says it has shipped drones to more than a dozen countries, including a widely reported delivery to Kosovo’s security force in October 2025 — part of the broader wave of Turkish drone exports that has made low-cost UAVs one of Ankara’s most competitive product categories.
The TOYCA line marks Skydagger’s move beyond short-range FPV munitions into fixed-wing, GPS-independent loitering munitions with genuine standoff range. The TOYCA-05, unveiled in November 2025, carries a 5-kilogram warhead out to roughly 70 kilometres and uses mesh networking to operate in drone swarms; Skydagger has said it can build more than 30,000 units of that model a year. The TOYCA-10E extends the family toward the medium-range strike category — closer in profile to systems like Russia’s Shahed-136/Geran-2 or Ukraine’s homegrown long-range attack drones than to a tactical FPV quadcopter. It also joins a growing shelf of Turkish loitering and interceptor drones from multiple manufacturers, including STM’s TUNGA-X and TOGAN families, as Türkiye’s unmanned-systems sector diversifies well beyond Baykar’s own product lines.
Why it matters beyond Türkiye
Long-range, low-cost, autonomously guided strike drones have become one of the most closely watched categories in defence procurement since 2022, and demand is running well ahead of what established Western suppliers can produce cheaply. Türkiye’s drone industry — led at the top end by Baykar’s Bayraktar and Akıncı platforms — has built its export success on the same formula the TOYCA-10E is chasing: credible performance at a fraction of the unit cost of comparable Western munitions, with fast production ramp-up and few political strings attached to sales.
A loitering munition with a 250-kilometre reach sits in a market segment that has historically been dominated by Iranian and Russian designs on one side and expensive precision-guided Western missiles on the other. If Skydagger can back the TOYCA-10E’s announced specifications with a public test and a qualification programme, it would give Turkish industry — and by extension, its export customers — a mid-tier option that few other suppliers currently offer at scale.
What to watch next
The obvious open questions are the ones Skydagger did not answer this week: a live-fire demonstration, a Turkish Armed Forces evaluation or order, and confirmation of which export customers are being offered the system. Skydagger’s general manager, Mehmet Öztekin, has said the company is targeting exports to around 20 countries by the end of 2026, up from roughly 14 a year earlier — a pace that, if the TOYCA-10E performs as advertised, this new variant is clearly designed to accelerate. It mirrors a pattern seen elsewhere in Türkiye’s unmanned-systems push, from TUSAŞ’s ANKA exports to joint production of Turkish-designed naval drones in Azerbaijan: land a first customer, then scale.
