The Downfall of Bayraktar Rise Hype and Fall of the Turkish Drone

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Get Great Books at • Naval Institute Press: 25% off with MILAVHIS at https://www.usni.org/press/books • A lot of footage (alleges) that Bayraktar TB-2 took out air defense, radar sites, tanks and vehicles in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yet recently, far less footage has been released. Let's analyse the proliferation of Bayraktar, the hype behind TB-2, the operational context and how social media generate a misleading image of the effectiveness of drone warfare. • Check out my books • Ju 87 Stuka - http://stukabook.com • STG-44 Assault Platoon - http://sturmzug.com • German Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com/ • Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de/ • Support • Patreon: / milavhistory • Channel Memberships: / @militaryaviationhistory • PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/MilAvHis • Social Media • Twitter: / milavhistory • Instagram: / milaviationhistory • Sources • ATP-3.3.8.1, 'Minimum Training Requirements for Unmanned Aircraft (UAS) Systems' Edition B, Version 1, May 2019 (Graphs). • Axe, David, and Forbes Staff. ‘Ukraine’s TB-2 Drones Are Back In Action. That’s An Ominous Sign For Russia.’ Forbes, 3 September 2023. • Barrie, Douglas, and Niklas Ebert. ‘Armed UAVs: An Asset, but Not Alone All-Conquering’. IISS Military Balance Blog, 5 July 2021. • Barrie, Douglas, Niklas Ebert, Oskar Glaese, and Franz-Stefan Gady. ‘Armed Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and the Challenges of Autonomy’, December 2021. • ‘Bayraktar Manufacturer Site’. Baykar, 25 September 2023. • Bronk, Justin, and Jack Watling. ‘Mass Precision Strike: Designing UAV Complexes for Land Forces’. RUSI Occasional Paper, April 2024. • Cook, Ellie. ‘Why Ukraine’s Once-Feared Bayraktar Drones Are Becoming Obsolete’. Newsweek, 2 November 2023. • Droin, Mathieu, Tina Dolbaia, and Abigail Edwards. ‘A Renewed Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Reading Between the Front Lines’. CSIS, 22 September 2023. • Helou, Agnes. ‘With Turkish Drones in the Headlines, What Happened to Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2s?’ Breaking Defense, 6 October 2023. • Ichaso Franco, Rafael “Russian Air force’s Performance in Ukraine” Vol. 35. The Journal of the JAPCC. JAPCC, 2022. • Gady, Franz-Stefan. ‘Useful, but Not Decisive: UAVs in Libya’s Civil War’. IISS, 22 November 2019. • Khachatryan, Davit. ‘Beyond the Drone Hype: Unpacking Nagorno-Karabakh’s Real Lessons’. EVN, 27 March 2024. • Malo-Gosselin, Elisabeth “Are the once-vaunted Bayraktar drones losing their shine in Ukraine? Defense News, 31 October 2023. • Mitzer, Stijn. ‘The Idlib Turkey Shoot: The Destruction and Capture of Vehicles and Equipment by Turkish and Rebel Forces’. Oryx, 25 September 2024. • Mitzer, Stijn, Joost Oliemans, and Jakub Janovsky. ‘A Monument Of Victory: The Bayraktar TB2 Kill List’. Oryx, 25 September 2024. • Nolan, Beatrice. ‘Demand Is so High for the Legendary Bayraktar Drones Used to Defend against Russia’s Ukraine Invasion That Their Turkish Maker Has a 3-Year Waitlist’. Business Insider, 15 August 2022. • Péria-Peigné, Léo. ‘TB2 Bayraktar: Big Strategy for a Little Drone’. IFRI, 17 April 2023. • Reynolds, Nick, and Jack Watling. ‘Your Tanks Cannot Hide’. RUSI Defense System 22 (5 March 2020). • Roblin, Sebastien. ‘Turkish Drones Over Nagorno- Karabakh—And Other Updates From A Day-Old War’. Forbes, 28 September 2020. • Satam, Parth. ‘Bayraktar Dream Ends For Ukraine; “Angry” Ankara Backs Out Of Setting Up TB2 Factory In War Zone — Reports’. Eurasian Times, 31 October 2022. • Stein, Aaron. ‘The TB2: The Value of a Cheap and “Good Enough” Drone’. Atlantic Council, 30 August 2022. • Todhunter, Matty. ‘Insight: Is the Bayraktar TB2 UAV Living up to Expectations?’ Shephard, 15 September 2023. • Townsend, Jim and Rachel Ellehuus. “The Tale of Turkey and the Patriots” War on the Rocks, 22. July 2019. • Vogt, Kim, and Andre Haider. ‘Challenged Air Superiority Adapting to the Drone and Missile Age’. Joint Air Space Power Conference 2024 Read Ahead, August 2024. • Watling, Jack. ‘Meatgrinder: Russian Tactics in the Second Year of Its Invasion of Ukraine’. RUSI Special Report, 19 May 2023. • Whelan, Chris. ‘The 2020 Nagorno Karabakh War: Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles in Modern Warfare’. Air and Space Power Review 25, no. 2 (n.d.). • Witt, Stephen. ‘The Turkish Drone That Changed the Nature of Warfare’. The New Yorker, 9 May 2022. • Timecodes • 00:00 - Drone Warfare • 00:20 - Bayraktar TB-2 • 03:15 - TB-2 in War • 06:00 - Company: Baykar • 07:40 - Turkey's Arms Industry • 09:38 - Bayraktar Operations: The Context • 12:58 - Sales Pitch: Bayraktar's Bang for Buck • 13:37 - Sources and Sponsor • 14:41 - Operations in Libya • 15:24 - Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia vs Azerbaijan • 16:55 - Ukraine War (+2022 period) • 19:19 - Capable not Exceptional • 20:20 - Leave YOUR Comments • Audio • Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

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