Turkish company Baykar, known for its Bayraktar drone lines, has conducted another test phase of the long-range strike drone K2. As the company announced on August 2, ten UAVs performed an autonomous group flight in formation.

According to a statement by Baykar chairman Selçuk Bayraktar on X, the K2 Kamikaze drones maintained their positions in a “swarm” thanks to autonomy algorithms. In footage released by the company, all ten aircraft take off simultaneously and then perform several formations during the test.

This is the second public swarm test of the K2: the first trials took place in March 2026 at the Keşan Flight Training and Test Center in Edirne province. According to Baykar, the K2 platforms used AI, sensors, and software to determine their position relative to other aircraft in the swarm, holding formation without errors and fully completing assigned tasks.

The K2 Kamikaze was first unveiled on March 14, 2026. The drone features a pusher-propeller configuration, a maximum takeoff weight of 800 kg, of which 200 kg is allocated to the warhead. The aircraft has a wingspan of 10 m and a fuselage length of 5.1 m. The company’s stated maximum range exceeds 2,000 km, maximum speed exceeds 200 km/h, and endurance exceeds 13 hours.

The drone is equipped with an electro-optical and infrared gimbal camera for day and night reconnaissance and surveillance, as well as a visual target acquisition function for terminal guidance.

The company separately emphasizes that the K2’s navigation architecture is designed to operate in conditions where satellite navigation systems are unavailable or jammed. Among its stated capabilities are GNSS-denied positioning, adaptive route planning based on environmental conditions, and autonomous emergency response in the event of thrust loss.

Similar developments are underway not only in Turkey. Ukrainian company Swarmer has developed software that allows groups of drones to autonomously distribute targets and adapt mission execution. According to military personnel, the system has already been used in combat conditions over a hundred times. A similar approach was demonstrated in January 2026 by Auterion and Ukrainian company Airlogix: a single operator managed the mission of three autonomous strike drones while the software independently handled navigation and targeting. Unlike the heavy long-range K2, Ukrainian developments are primarily focused on mass-produced FPV drones.