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Rise of a “Drone Superpower?” Turkish Drones Upending Russia’s Near Abroad
Though 2020 will be defined in the history books by the COVID-19 pandemic, a story that ought to not go unnoticed is the ascendance of...
This rise was by no means peaceful and comes as a result of various confrontations between Russian and Turkish proxies in the Near East.
- Nicholas Velazquez
- Geopolitical Monitor
Initially, the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) struck at Russian-backed forces in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars.
However, the successful usage of the Bayraktar TB2 UAV by Azeri forces in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War demonstrates a paradigm shift for the Russians whereby Turkey…