Nations Are Lining up to Buy Turkey’s Drones: What Makes Them Special? | From the Frontline
Turkey secured a major deal to sell is Baykar Bayraktar Akinci Drone to Saudi Arabia. This will be one of Turkey’s largest military aviation export deal. Pakistan, Libya already use Turkey’s Akinci drone. Turkye’s Baykar Bayraktar TB-2 drone is already being operated by at least 28 nations.
Turkey’s Baykar Defence is working on a stealth drone, the Bayraktar Kizilelma. However, Turkey’s drones face a stiff competition from the US drone MQ-9 Reaper and the Chinese drone Wing Loong 2.
So what makes Turkey’s drones special, and why are nations buying them? Find out here.
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Two reasons thst helped the turks drone sells:
1. They sold armed drones when other participants didn't allow export of armed drone (israel, us to non NATO countries, france, etc.) and to countries who couldn't buy "western drones".
2. They are very cheap. Also, the further the lira fell (from 8$ to 26$), the more popular the drones became.
Two reasons preventing turkish drones from western armies:
1. They weren't granted permission to fly in civilian space (see Switzerland hermes 900, UK watchkeeper, Germany IAI Heron) and they do not follow NATO protocols (see NATO universal GCS, NATO standard A/G communication, etc.)
2. They can only fit turkish weapons and electronics (like france does with their aircraft) and require turkish OEM suppliers for various changes, fixes and modifications.
What I'm interested in, is what are the turks drone sells profit margins? After deducing r&d, engines and material cost, how much do they earn per drone sell?
I belive their margin is very low, and they rely heavily on governmental funds, which is fine but problematic in the long run…
Pakistan 🇵🇰 Turkey 🇹🇷 brother Islamic countries and best friends forever 👍🌹🥰😍😘
TB2 is updated according to feedback from war front.
I can Assure you that Türkiye supplies defence equipment to carefully chosen friendly and loyal countries, for example Serbia and İndia was refused for political reasons.
Super Erdoganium 💪💪
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Unreliable Chinese drones 🤣🤣🤣nice comment
The name "beykar" actually applies to DRDO which has been puttering around with drones for 20 years without any success. Forget drones, we don't even have drone-capable munitions like smart bombs, air to ground rockets, small cruise missiles. Not even basic infantry rifles. Shameful.
Experienced gained from manufacturing the massively used suicide bombing jackets and tactics in the last 30 years transferred to suicide drones plus free American marketing. That's what.
They aren't made in India! That's what makes it special 😂
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Betrayer countrys drone for killing innocents of Armenia,Yezidis/Kurds of Syria.Allah has punished Turkey causing massive Earthquake and it will be destroyed in comming years for their Sins.
This is funny the word Baykar 😂
(बेकार) means
waste, worthless, in hindi
The funny thing is brown propaganda queen is feeling ebaraced to broadcast the news about turkish greatness and prosperity so they bring unknown reporter bcz definetly she is not happy on the news , if the news were against turkiye then brown lady must broadcast the news first😂😂😂😂
Turkeiii now bow to US 🇺🇸 because they want the stupid F16 fighters
Not anymore. Russia has tamed their drones 😂😂😂
10-15 years from now, Ai drone war.either air drone or under water drone…war conduct by one or two centre controller .. tank,ship will vanish slowly..
Stability
Nice
Russia has shot down everything. Very poor level of manfacturing.
Turkey !!! Chicken Wings
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You mentioned only Bayraktar drones. There are also toher highly quality drone manufacturers in Turkey. Check TAI
Thanks to the western sanctions, now Turkiye now has almost independent defense industry, and a major player in the drone market.
Seems like you didnt do your homework well, actually tb2 has the EW capability, and head of Aselsan said that it can jam radars from 100km away.
Also, When Turkey say it can fly 24 hr and 1 ton payload, it shows when it has the everything on it with full capability, however Chinese show it different as without weapons
Akinci is far the best dron in the marked! Why? It can lauch trg 230 IHA, which is a Supersonic air to ground missile. You can send this Missile 150 km, and even s400 will not be able to handel this Missile. It will include air to air missile very soon, and also the aesa radar. And rokedsan has many missile system which they can implement to it. As well as, Aselsan made new Elektronik warfare pots for this. If you hava akinci, it can cary any mission without having a dog Fight 😊
I liken the TB-2 to the Ak-47 of drones, easy to operate, cheap and reliable. It's going to sell like candies in the coming decades. Some say that it only worked well in the first months of the Ukraine war, but you don't know how much difference that first acclimation to the drone means. It makes a huge difference for the coming course of war. Also they continue to do recon work for Ukraine, just more silently.
In the Ukraine-Russia war we saw how bad all Turkish drones were. You haven't heard anything about Turkish drones for a long time.