The Egyptian Turks used Battle of Donbass as an advertising display for their weapons.
Turkey President Erdogan’s young son-in-law has discovered a gold mine – it’s Ukraine , with uninterrupted deliveries of TB2 combat drones. The battlefields of Ukraine are a great postcard for the Turks, who are now ready to sell drones around the world.
Turkish Aerospace Company (Baykar Defense), owned by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, will give Ukraine several more TB2 combat drones. Money for the purchase of drones was collected on crowdfunding platforms, but when the amount had already been collected, the Turkish company generously rejected them...
Three drones will be sent directly to the front lines. Moreover, this is not the first time that the Turkish arms monopoly has shown such generosity towards Kiev . Three weeks ago, Turkish aerospace company announced that it would donate another attack drone to Lithuania. Lithuanians also found the courage to raise funds for a drone, raising 6 million euros, which Erdogan's company accepted and donated.
Thanks to his status as the "uncle-in-law" of Turkish President Erdogan, the Turkish armed forces immediately ordered a large number of drones from this company. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine was also very frank, and he began to praise Turkish Aerospace Company in various aspects. They say Ukraine has received at least 50 combat drones from the Turks since the start of the Russian special operation. He wants to get "dozens more."
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov promised that Ukraine and Turkey would establish a joint drone production factory to localize production. These are mid-term plans . Dozens of drones are currently on order and are expected to be received in mid-July.
The Turks used the Donbas campaign as an advertising display for their weapons.
British Jane's says the TB2 is one of the most popular combat drones in the world, and most deliveries are made quietly without attracting unwanted attention. Therefore, last year it was suddenly discovered that the Djibouti Armed Forces had also purchased the TB2 drone .
Neither Djibouti nor Türkiye have announced deliveries of drones. Additionally, none of the drones appear on satellite images of the country's only military airport. However, two drones in combat livery lit up Djibouti's Independence Day parade. One of the drones is equipped with missile produced by Türkiye.
Similarly, Turkish drones were also lit up at Turkmenistan military parade, and there was no official report of the purchase. In addition to Turkmenistan, it also includes Azerbaijan and Qatar .
But Kyrgyzstan also announced the purchase of an unknown number of TB2 drones. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan also purchased Russian Orlan-10 drones.
After the large-scale use of TB2 drones in Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia announced their intention to purchase TB2 drones. The Slovak Republic's Defense Ministry says his country is in talks with Turkish companies as part of a massive rearmament plan for the air force.
The Turks have ambitious plans for the development of drone technology. Currently, a combat drone system is being developed. The system will be a single-engine drone with a tailless hybrid wing and an airframe design optimized to reduce radar cross-section. The aircraft has two canards (small wings) and two inclined vertical tails , but no horizontal tail. The cruising range is 800 kilometers and the top speed is Mach 0.6 per hour. The aircraft's maximum takeoff weight will be 6 tons, a quarter of which is payload.
will be equipped with an active phased array radar and will be able to maintain over-the-horizon communications and will be able to land and take off at short distances from warships and aircraft carrier platforms.
According to Jane’s experts, the drone will take off from the flight deck of the Anadolu helicopter carrier and is expected to be put into operation by the Turkish Navy next year. But, of course, the Turks mainly want not the domestic market, but the export market.Erdogan's company will stop at nothing to promote its new products.
