{"id":1354692,"date":"2022-03-02T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354692"},"modified":"2022-03-02T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:53:13","slug":"turkish-drones-playing-key-role-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turkish-drones-playing-key-role-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Drones Playing Key Role in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fturkish-drones-playing-key-role-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354692&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Turkish-made Bayraktar armed drones have proven to be a key weapon in Ukraine\u2019s arsenal against the Russian invasion, helping the defenders take out armored vehicles, eliminate artillery positions, and disrupt supply lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Kyiv Independent <\/span><\/i><span>shared a video on Monday allegedly showing a Bayraktar drone destroying a Russian rocket artillery launcher:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfaUkrainian Bayraktar TB2 has killed yet another Russian BM-21 Grad, now in Kyiv Oblast.<br \/>Wishing the best to the drone operators \u2014 they have probably saved a lot of civilian lives in Kyiv today.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GLRPBVyQli\">https:\/\/t.co\/GLRPBVyQli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAPonomarenko\/status\/1498328154989072388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Another clip was described by Sky News on Tuesday as a Bayraktar taking out a Russian Buk surface-to-air missile launcher \u2013 the same weapon <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-28357880\"><span>employed<\/span><\/a><span> by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine to shoot down a Malaysian airliner in 2014, killing 283 passengers and 15 crew members:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine has released footage of what it is says is an attack that destroyed a Russian Buk surface-to-air missile system outside of Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>The army said the strike was carried out by a Bayraktar drone.<\/p>\n<p>Latest: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X3flQUk9BR\">https:\/\/t.co\/X3flQUk9BR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I0dqtXIcwb\">pic.twitter.com\/I0dqtXIcwb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1498566206059470849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The footage that really caught the world\u2019s attention, posted over the weekend by the Ukrainian Embassy in Turkey, allegedly showed Bayraktar drones crippling a Russian military convoy:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukrayna?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukrayna<\/a> Genelkurmay Ba\u015fkan\u0131 \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Ma\u015fallah <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bayraktar?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bayraktar<\/a> TB2 S\u0130HA\u2019lar\u0131na \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/54ei1kyed6\">pic.twitter.com\/54ei1kyed6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ukraine in Turkey (@UKRinTR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKRinTR\/status\/1497857490976972804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukrayna?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukrayna<\/a> Hava Kuvvetleri, Bayraktar TB2 S\u0130HA\u2019lar\u0131 kullanarak Kherson \u015fehrine giren Rus konvoyu etkisiz hale getirdi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1HPgEEDE5\">pic.twitter.com\/L1HPgEEDE5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ukraine in Turkey (@UKRinTR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKRinTR\/status\/1497525487165480967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cNever a rose without a thorn,\u201d the Ukrainian embassy taunted, describing the convoy strike as \u201cdivine justice\u201d for Russia killing 34 Turkish soldiers in an airstrike on Syria exactly two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Numerous analysts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-02-26\/card\/ukraine-says-it-uses-turkish-made-drones-to-hit-russian-targets-DrigGO7vkGfDzbBuncnA\"><span>pointed<\/span><\/a><span> to this clip as a game-changer as more than a dozen Russian vehicles were evidently destroyed in the strike. Some observers <\/span><span>nervously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mei.edu\/publications\/new-face-war-devastating-drone-attacks-ukraine-have-implications-us-military-middle\"><span>pointed<\/span><\/a><span> out<\/span><span> that terrorists like the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen are developing proficiency with drone warfare. They could do a lot of damage if they got their hands on equipment as affordable and sophisticated as the Bayraktar, which seems capable of evading Russian surface-to-air defenses and might be equally good at slipping past American defense systems like the Patriot missile.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Turkey\u2019s <\/span><span>Bayraktar TB2 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/11\/25\/turkish-and-iranian-drone-technology-spreads-across-the-middle-east\/\"><span>drone<\/span><\/a><span> is a bestselling military export prized for its low cost and high reliability. The drones made a big splash in 2020 during Turkey\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/extremism-watch_why-turkey-involved-libyan-conflict\/6190551.html\"><span>intervention<\/span><\/a><span> in the Libyan civil war and Azerbaijan\u2019s battle with Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Russian-allied Armenians were reportedly stunned by the effectiveness of the Bayraktar drones in Azerbaijan\u2019s inventory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Besides their remarkable cost-effectiveness, with a price tag less than five percent of what a manned top-shelf warplane would cost, Bayraktars require relatively small launchers, making the system highly mobile and capable of rapid deployment.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cUkraine appears to be successfully using surviving Bayraktar TB2 drones against Russian military assets, once again proving its efficiency in combat,\u201d Turkish aviation expert Arda Mevlutoglu proudly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-01\/russia-meets-deadly-turkish-drones-once-more-in-ukraine-invasion\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Bloomberg News<\/span><span> on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Ukrainians themselves praised their drone strikes as \u201cthe jewelry work of Bayraktar TB2 crews.\u201d Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to Turkey, Vasyl Bodnar, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/defense\/turkey-made-drones-helping-fight-against-russia-ukrainian-envoy\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Sunday that the drones have proved a \u201chighly efficient\u201d weapon against Russian forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Independent military analysts told Bloomberg they were surprised Russia would leave its forces so exposed to a weapon the Armenians must have warned them about. The drones were also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janes.com\/defence-news\/air-platforms\/latest\/ukraine-uses-bayraktar-tb2-in-anger\"><span>used<\/span><\/a><span> successfully<\/span><span> against the Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas region.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was enraged by Ukraine\u2019s heavy purchases of the \u201cdestructive\u201d Bayraktars, which are manufactured by a <\/span><span>company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Politics\/International-relations\/Ascendant-and-assertive-Turkey-creates-tough-choices-for-US\"><span>run<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s son-in-law, MIT-educated engineer Selcuk Bayraktar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Putin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/ukraine-uses-turkish-drones-donbass-conflict-zone-putin-tells-erdogan-2021-12-03\/\"><span>harangued<\/span><\/a><span> Erdogan for selling drones to the Ukrainians in a December 2021 phone call, claiming Ukraine was using the Bayraktars for \u201cprovocative activity.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20055290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768836.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20055290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768836.png\" alt=\"Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. - Ukrainian soldiers repulsed a Russian attack in the capital, the military said on February 26 after a defiant President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed his pro-Western country would not be bowed by Moscow. It started the third day since Russian leader Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale invasion that has killed dozens of people, forced more than 50,000 to flee Ukraine in just 48 hours and sparked fears of a wider conflict in Europe. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY \/ AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fight with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cIn April 2021, Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Ankara to cease supplying weapons to Kyiv and encouraging \u2018militaristic sentiments.\u2019 Later that year, Ukraine deployed the TB-2 for the first time in combat by destroying a separatist artillery piece on October 26. Again, Russia criticized Turkey for \u2018destabilizing\u2019 the situation in eastern Ukraine by supplying Ukraine,\u201d Turkey\u2019s <\/span><span>Ahval News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ahvalnews.com\/tb2\/ukraines-turkish-drones-score-victories-against-russian-military-unlikely-turn-tide\"><span>recalled<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Turkish government responded that Turkey has no control over how its drones are used, and has no intention to stop selling them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/turkey-deepens-defense-ties-ukraine-drone-trade\"><span>signed<\/span><\/a><span> a batch of trade deals with Turkey in early February that included expanded production capacity for drones, and a training center for their operators, on Ukrainian soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBaykar will expand its production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine, and Ukraine will strengthen its defense capabilities with these new technologies and jobs,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said the next generation of Bayraktars would be manufactured in Ukraine using engines from fabled Ukrainian manufacturer Motor Sich. The Ukrainian government <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-seizes-motor-sich\/31161801.html\"><span>seized<\/span><\/a><span> Motor Sich\u2019s assets from Chinese investors in March 2021, declaring the company vital to national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis will, in fact, be the Ukrainian-Turkish Bayraktar in terms of technological content. Well, accordingly, they will be used in the armed forces of Ukraine and Turkey, and those countries that will be willing to buy them,\u201d Reznikov said in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine is currently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/america\/mundo\/2022\/03\/01\/los-drones-turcos-son-una-de-las-claves-en-la-resistencia-ucraniana-contra-la-invasion-rusa\/\"><span>believed<\/span><\/a><span> to have about two dozen Bayraktar systems in its inventory. The standard configuration for one system includes six unmanned aerial vehicles and two ground control stations, so the total number of drones Ukraine can put in the air could be considerably higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Poland also purchased Bayraktar drones from Turkey in the summer of 2021, acquiring a fleet comparable in size to Ukraine\u2019s and drawing some criticism from NATO because the deal could antagonize Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Germany\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Deutsche Welle<\/span><\/i> <span>(<em>DW<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/poland-continues-to-draw-eu-nato-ire-over-turkish-drone-purchases\/a-57775109\">said<\/a> Poland\u2019s Bayraktar buy was \u201calso a snub to the Biden administration after what is seen in Warsaw as Washington\u2019s renewed cozying up to Berlin over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt seems that by this transaction Poland is trying not only to strengthen its relationship with Turkey, but also to make it more tied to the security of NATO\u2019s eastern flank, as well as to drive a wedge between Turkey and Russia, at a time when that relationship is very complicated,\u201d Turkey analyst Karol Wasilewski of the Polis Institute of International Affairs remarked to <\/span><i><span>DW<\/span><\/i><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish-made Bayraktar armed drones have proven to be a key weapon in Ukraine\u2019s arsenal against the Russian invasion, helping the defenders take out armored vehicles, eliminate artillery positions, and disrupt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}