Why Some Countries Are Buying More Than One Turkish Drone Type

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...

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...

More Countries Are Diversifying Their Drone Arsenals

Morocco’s reported purchase of Chinese Chengdu Wing Loong II is merely the latest example of a country diversifying its drone fleet. With the addition of these armed Chinese unmanned aerial vehi...

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...

Greece Is Deploying Israeli Systems To Counter Turkish Drones

Turkey’s vaunted domestically-built drones pose a significant challenge for Greece, a challenge Athens has recently begun addressing with Israeli know-how. Greece has secretly implemented a R...

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...

Supplying Ukraine Russian-Built Military Hardware Will Help Kyiv And Enhance NATO Interoperability

The United States will work with its allies to transfer Russian-built tanks to Ukraine, according to an Apr. 1 New York Times report. The move came after a specific request from Ukrainian President Vo...

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...