Turkey releases new drone after it's removed from F-35 programme Turkey's Defense Industries Presidency (SSB) Head, Ismail Demir in Ankara, Turkey on January 11, 2021 [Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency] May 11, 2021 at 1:32 pm The Turkish Defence Industries on Sunday announced that they have been working on deploying a new Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) after Turkey was removed from the F-35 project by the US following its purchase of Russian air defence systems. President of Defence Industries, Ismail Demir, said they have been collaborating with Turkish defense company Baykar Defence on deploying the 'TB-3 Bayraktar' UCAV on Turkey's future Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) Anadolu instead of the F-35B aircraft which has vertical take-off and landing capability.