Posted on Mar 11, 2020
The Air Force Is Looking for a Successor to its MQ-9 Reaper Drone
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I just read how Turkey used off the shelf drones to destroy over 100 Russian made tanks in Syria. The dropped smart munitions that used GPS. Russia is taken aback.
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Recycling a link I saw on RP yesterday. Interesting article - especially the following excerpt:
“At less than $6 million per drone, the TB2 is about a third of the cost of the similarly capable US produced Reaper MQ-9, which retails for US allies at about $16 million a piece.
Turkey's President of Defence Industries İsmail Demir, in a 2016 panel discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council, lauded the U.S. restriction on drone sales for pushing Turkey to become an independent UAV manufacturer. "I don't want to be sarcastic, but I would like to thank [the U.S. government] for any of the projects that was not approved by the U.S. because it forced us to develop our own system
https://www.insider.com/turkey-drones-syria-russia-wont-confront-directly-2020-3
“At less than $6 million per drone, the TB2 is about a third of the cost of the similarly capable US produced Reaper MQ-9, which retails for US allies at about $16 million a piece.
Turkey's President of Defence Industries İsmail Demir, in a 2016 panel discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council, lauded the U.S. restriction on drone sales for pushing Turkey to become an independent UAV manufacturer. "I don't want to be sarcastic, but I would like to thank [the U.S. government] for any of the projects that was not approved by the U.S. because it forced us to develop our own system
https://www.insider.com/turkey-drones-syria-russia-wont-confront-directly-2020-3
Turkey used a new weapon in Syria that was so effective it looks like Russia won't dare confront...
Apparently, there are some wars Russia is not willing to fight.
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