Kuwait recently became the 28th country to order Turkey’s well-known Bayraktar TB2 drone. At the same time, other foreign operators of the TB2 are going on to buy bigger, more advanced, and more...
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Iran And Turkey Push Ahead With Ambitious Drone Factory Projects In Russia And Ukraine
Recent reports indicate that Iran and Turkey are pushing ahead with their respective projects to build enormous factories in Russia and Ukraine for manufacturing large numbers of their homegrown Shahe...
Iran May Hope To Replicate Turkey’s Success Exporting Drones. Here’s Why It Can’t.
Recent comments from top Iranian officials strongly suggest that Tehran perceives itself as a rapidly ascending arms exporter, especially of drones. In reality, Iran, at least under the incumbent regi...
Iran, Israel, And Turkey Have Developed Some Interesting Ship-Launched Drones
The Middle East’s three premier drone powers — Iran, Israel, and Turkey — have developed a variety of naval and ship-launched drones in recent years that are worth evaluating. Iran Unlike their Israel...
Rival Middle East Powers Are Now Arming Both Sides Of A European War
On Sept. 13, Ukraine’s defense ministry tweeted photos of the remains of an Iranian-built Shahed-136 drone its forces had shot down over the country’s eastern Kharkiv province. The incident occurred j...
The Ukrainian Military Is Changing Its Tactics With The Bayraktar TB2 Drones
During the first four months of the Russia-Ukraine war, the “Most Valuable Player” award could readily go to the Bayraktar TB2 drone. This drone provided the Ukrainians with the necessary air power to...
Iranian, Turkish, And Israeli Drones Will Be Built In Other Countries
Iran’s inauguration of a factory to build military drones in Tajikistan on May 17 is the latest example of the Middle East’s leading drone manufacturers expanding the production and proliferation of t...
New Turkish Bayraktar Drones Still Seem To Be Reaching Ukraine
Snake Island saw some dramatic action last weekend, including a high-speed, low-level bombing run by Ukrainian jets and a series of strikes by Bayraktar TB2 drones which sank two patrol boats and a la...
Will Turkey Supply Ukraine S-400s And Get Back In U.S.’ Good Graces?
In recent weeks several proposals have been made to arm Ukraine with Russian-built military hardware from the arsenals of NATO member states. There was Poland’s widely-reported offer of its flee...
What Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Could Mean For Turkey’s Drone Program
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could negatively impact the future of Turkey’s drone program. After all, Ankara and Kyiv have grand plans to expand bilateral cooperation to build drones toget...