Ukraine has been living a life of miserable life since the conflict with Russia at the end of last year. As the backstage boss, the United States not only did not give them any practical support (except for sending several ships to , Black Sea and finally drove them out in a mess by Russian warships), but instead actively pushed the Ukrainians to the front line as cannon fodder.
Because the Russian army in front of them had an overwhelming advantage in their strength, the Ukrainian army could not gain any advantage at all. At this time, another NATO country went online in time. They exported a high-profile investigation and attack drone to the Ukrainian army. This country changed its position many times in the Syrian war, and whenever there were immediate interests, they bite Turkey like a vicious dog.
According to the latest report by Ukrainian national media on March 21, on the same day, the Ukrainian army received two Turkish TB-2 reconnaissance and attack drones, which were produced by Turkey's company Bellakta, which were the first batch delivered by Turkey to Ukraine.
As early as January this year, the two countries signed an arms sales contract for the TB-2 drone. Kiev will spend nearly US$70 million to purchase 6 of this aircraft and a supporting ground control center.
It is worth mentioning that the product brought out in Türkiye this time is a complete copycat. After learning about the CH-3A type of reconnaissance and attack integrated drone independently developed and produced by my country, they quickly launched reverse engineering on it without authorization.
Turkish goods are very close to CH-3A in terms of take-off weight, aerodynamic shape design and power system power. However, Turkish does not master the essence of CH-3A's design, resulting in the maximum load of TB-2 is only 55 kilograms, which is only one-third of that of CH-3A.
In fact, this is not the first time Turkey has imitated domestic weapons. As early as the turn of the century, they imitated the WS-2 long-range large-caliber rocket launcher exported by my country, and imitated the copycat version of the T-300 and frantically robbed our business in the international military trade market. Now it seems that Turkey still owes us a patent fee. And the same is true for this TB-2 drone.
This time, Türkiye exported drones to Ukraine, in addition to a simple arms business, the deeper purpose behind it is to use Ukraine to check and balance Russia. Now they are at a loss when they are criticized by Russia on the Syrian battlefield, and they can only try to open up the situation in other directions. It is conceivable that in the future, Moscow will inevitably put more pressure on Erdogan on the Idlip province and Kurdish issue. Türkiye is clearly playing with fire.
