There will be highways with UAV-SİHA runways!

Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the national highway network will be adapted to serve as takeoff, landing and deployment sites for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during disaster, emergency and extraordinary logistics operations. The plan effectively turns stretches of the road network into drone runways and staging areas, extending the transport ministry's infrastructure role beyond conventional road traffic. It matters because it gives Turkey a distributed, road-based drone capability for crisis response and logistics without relying solely on dedicated airfields. Details on cost, the number of designated sites and timelines have yet to be disclosed, and watchers should look for the ministry's technical specifications and pilot locations.