Türkiye Opens Bayraktar Drone Factory in Ukraine to Fight Russian Invasion

 Türkiye Opens Bayraktar Drone Factory in Ukraine to Fight Russian Invasion.

Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone is seen during a rehearsal for a military parade dedicated to Independence Day, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 20, 2021.

Ukraine's defense ministry signed an agreement with Turkish drone magnate Baykar Makina to build a drone repair and maintenance service center in Ukraine, a ministry official said Monday 30/07/2023.

Ukraine seeks to increase domestic production of drones to build an “Army of Drones” in its fight against Russian troops that invaded the country in February 2022.

"The establishment of the service center will be a significant contribution to strengthening Ukraine's defense capabilities and will help bring our victory closer," the ministry's state secretary Kostiantyn Vashchenko said in a statement.

Ukrainian manufacturers have sharply increased domestic production of drones. More than 10,000 drone operators have been trained with another 10,000 in training, said Mykhailo Fedorov, deputy prime minister in charge of the "Drone Army" last week.

Both Ukrainian and Russian forces have used a variety of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, for reconnaissance and strike purposes during the war.

Ukrainian media reported earlier this month, citing Ukraine's strategic industry minister Oleksandr Kamyshin, that Baykar had started construction of a plant to manufacture Ukraine's famous Bayraktar TB2 UAV.

The Bayraktar TB2, which has been used by Ukraine against the Russian invasion, along with conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Karabakh, is spearheading Türkiye's global defense export push.

The TB2 is especially popular in Ukraine, where it helps destroy Russian artillery systems and armored vehicles. It even became the subject of an expletive-strewn patriotic hit in Ukraine mocking Russian troops, with a chorus of “Bayraktar, Bayraktar.”

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Tuesday, 1-11-2022.

IslamTimes - Russia's Defense Ministry said it had found and analyzed fragments of a drone used by the Ukrainian military to carry out a "terrorist attack" against Russia's Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean Peninsula, coming to the conclusion that the drone was equipped with a "Canada-made navigation module." carried out near the Crimean port of Sevastopol with 16 drones on Saturday morning, with the Russian military saying it had managed to repel it.

“Specialists of the Russian Ministry of Defense together with representatives of other state agencies examined the navigation module of a Canadian-made marine drone. Based on the results of the data retrieved from the navigation receiver's memory, it was determined that the marine drone had been launched from the coast near Odessa," the ministry said in a statement on Sunday (30/10).

According to the statement, the drones had moved along the "grain corridor" security zone before changing course towards the Russian naval base in Sevastopol, the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula. "This may indicate the initial launch of this device from one of the civilian vessels chartered by Kiev or its Western customers for the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian ports."

Russia's Defense Ministry said shortly after Saturday's drone strike that Moscow was suspending its participation in a UN-brokered deal that allows grain exports from Ukraine amid a worsening global food crisis.

The ministry also accused Kiev of planning the Sevastopol drone strike with the help of British military specialists; a claim London denies.

Earlier this week, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said a drone had struck a thermal power plant near the Crimean port city.

The Russian fleet stationed at the port was also attacked by drones in July.

Crimea joined the Russian Federation in a referendum in 2014.

Russia launched a "special military operation" in Ukraine in late February, following Kiev's failure to implement the terms of the 2014 Minsk agreement and Moscow's recognition of the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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