Lol some idiot thinks Turkey is a 'power'. It's a strawman who has never stood on its own since the 18th Century. You're as nuts as Saddam was. Stick to bullying Greece and a few Syrian refugees; you will just get yourselves wiped out if you try and take on Putin without the West holding your hand and patting you on the head. Putin can find plenty of allies in a war against you.
Pentagon website
The beginning of 2020 nearly witnessed Russia and Turkey in direct kinetic war, initially due to a successful Syrian offensive against Turkish-backed rebel forces. (...)
It was truly a transformational confrontation that will definitely be added into military handbooks and manuals around the globe. The UAVs in this full-scale military operation were not merely an element of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) but rather instruments of combat, fully integrated into the operational strategy of three countries: Syria, Russia, and Turkey. (...)
Sources indicate that Turkish electronic warfare systems (EWS) allowed Turkish forces to undertake all necessary tasks during the conflict with the Syrian Army,
despite Russian and Syrian government forces’
closure of the airspace over Idlib. (...)
Turkish operations in Idlib involved the tactical Bayraktar TB2 and multipurpose TAI Anka mediumaltitude, long-range (MALE) UAVs.1 The massive employment of these UAVs ensured the unprecedented success of the Turkish Army, sending a message not only to Russia but also to Ankara’s Western allies—and more importantly, to the regional powers with whom Turkey is competing for regional hegemony—that Turkey had made great leaps in this new war domain. (...)
The Turkish EMS system enabled Ankara to listen into Syrian Army telephones, allowing them to detect the coordinates of the Syrians. Then Turkish forces transmitted those locations to the TAI Anka UAVs, which relayed data to the combat Bayraktar TB2s for target elimination. Naturally, Russian specialists blame their adversary’s success on the Syrians, saying their allies did not know how to run EMS warfare—naïvely using their cell phones. The immediate countermeasure for the Syrian Army and its local allies was primitive but effective— terminating the use of cell phones and anything that allowed others to detect their location. Orders were subsequently issued on paper, and subsequently, neither Turkish UAVs nor EMS systems could identify the Syrians.
Importantly, Western specialists completely disagree with the Russian assessment. (...)
Thanks to restrictive measures on Western drone technology toward Ankara, Turkey has arguably become
the leading state with combat-proven UAVs in the Middle East. Some experts are even calling Turkey a “drone superpower,” but it is too early for such claims—despite the
obvious momentum in that direction. (...)
Moscow was forced to reconsider its situation in Syria. Taking a new angle, Russia seeks a long-lasting strategy toward improving relations with Turkey and
avoiding direct confrontation with Ankara.
Libya as the Largest Drone Battlefield in the World
In Libya and Syria, the incessant use of combat UAVs allowed Turkey to
alter the situation on the ground. (...)
Additionally, Turkey deployed its KORAL
EWS, which is an integral component of the abovementioned air-defense and radio-electronic warfare complex. The KORALs are able to jam the work of the Pantsir-S1 and Chinese UAVs and can be used for jamming other target sets, including communications and other emitters, such as line-of-sight drone control links. The system also has useful direction-finding capabilities that could geolocate enemy forces by zeroing in on their radiofrequency emissions. These systems actually cover Tripoli and its outskirts to a radius of 124 miles (200 km). (...)
Thanks to Turkey’s ability to demonstrate its UAVs combat-proven capabilities, Ukraine, Qatar, and Tunisia have already purchased Turkish drones. Turkish UAVs now compete with Chinese, American, Israeli, and other major UAV-producing nations’ products in the international market. Given their respective performances in Libya,
nations are more likely to turn to Turkish drones than Chinese ones, which are offering a similar package. (...)
Drone technology has brought Russia and Turkey to the fore of modern warfare, on a par with the United States.
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