Baykar displays previously little-known one-way attack UAV

A loitering munition now identified as the Sivrisinek is seen during the Albanian Air Force's 74th anniversary celebration in April 2025. (Ministry of Defence of Albania)

Turkish company Baykar Technology has displayed for the first time a type of one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicle (OWA UAV) that was previously identified as one developed jointly with Pakistan, called the YIHA III.

A video released by Baykar on 24 April 2026 showed 16 of the OWA UAVs at the company's Keşan facility alongside five of the larger K2 OWA UAVs that Baykar unveiled on 14 March. Baykar effectively identified it as the Sivrisinek (mosquito in Turkish) as the video accompanied an announcement that this previously unknown type and the K2 would be displayed at the Saha Expo in Istanbul in May 2026.

The Sivrisinek has a simple tubular fuselage, a small piston engine driving a pusher propeller, fixed wheeled undercarriage, and a gimbaled camera on its nose that enables the operator to find targets during flight.

It appears to have been first shown when Pakistan's National Aerospace & Technology Park (NASTP) in Karachi was inaugurated in August 2023. During the ceremony it was displayed next to a small cruise missile that was labelled as the KaGem V3. The KaGem V3 looked very similar to Baykar's Kemankeş 2 and had the Turkish-company's logo on it.

Baykar announced during the inauguration that it would establish a research and development facility at NASTP.

Reports later in 2023 identified the loitering munition as a joint Baykar-NASTP development called the YIHA III. It is unclear where this name originated but it seemingly incorporates the Turkish abbreviation for UAV (İnsansız Hava Aracı: İHA), possibly with the Y-III name used to describe it in a thread on a Pakistan defence forum.