Illustrative image. Source: the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Russian air defenses have shot down about 90 Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 of Kiev forces since the beginning of the country’s special military operation in Ukraine, an informed Russian source told RIA Novosti on May 25.
“Starting from February 24, about 90 Turkish-made Bayraktar combat drones have been destroyed by air defense systems of the Russian Armed Forces. This is not counting those destroyed in hangars on the ground by high-precision cruise missiles,” the Russian news agency quoted the unnamed source as saying.
According to the source, the relatively large size, low speed and poor maneuverability of Bayraktar drones made them are easy targets easy targets for Russian short and medium-range air-defense systems like the Pantsir-S1, the Tor-M2 and the Buk-M3.
The Bayraktar, which was developed by Turkey’s Baykar, gained much fame between 2019 and 2020 after taking part in several Turkish-led operations in Syria and Libya as well as in the Azerbaijani attack on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The combat drone has an endurance of up to 24 hours and an operational range of less than 300 kilometers. The drone’s main armament is the laser-guided MAM-C and MAM-L munitions made by Turkey’s Roketsan.
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Turkey exported dozens of Bayraktar drones to Ukraine before the beginning of the Russian special military operation. More drones were shipped to the country after the beginning of the operation, likely under a secret deal with Kiev.
Kiev forces used Bayraktar combat drones in the May 7 failed attack on Snake island. Russian air defenses shot down at least eight of the drones near the island in just two days.
While the Bayraktar succeeded to some extent in low-intensity wars where the threat of air defense fire is not prominent, it failed dramatically in Ukraine when it was confronted by the fire power of the Russian military. Kiev is now trying to use the drone in one-way, or suicide, missions with no real success.
Gayrectums are getting shit fucked on a regular basis.
The bay_actor or may I say bay_actress left the scene , or more precisely got taken out of the scene.
bayraktar behind you 💥
Bayraktar is a flag bearer in turkish and surname of Erdogan’s daughter husband — Selchuk Bayraktar, owner of “Baykar makina” company. By the way, there is helicopter “Erdogan” created by “Kamov” for tender, Ka-50-2.
As usual Russian propaganda. Ukraine don’t have that much bayraktar.NEXT
The irony of what you write! I would love to think you were that clever.
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“… Ukraine does not have that many bayraktars.” would be mieux. 😊
in your dreams… Your wake up will be very painefull in the ass… Brainwashed moron…
So now to be renamed Ebaycrapter drones!
I prefer Gayrectums. Kinda self explantory
That’s what they do, they get shot down.
That’s what happens when your ally is USA
Its added Russian inflation. If 80 are true they probatly has about 1500 of them and start passenger transportation.
Next model might be a Putin dumper.
senile nazi moron jens—more external revenue in Russia 2022 than ever- in history–inflation triple in EU /angloshere than Russia
poor imbecile
look at the netherlands, where they say they have 6% inflation while all the data indication 33-35%
who is the liar?
I think this conflict has proven how useless so much of the western “wonder weapons” have been.
In my opinion its both a combination of the US and western European weapons not being as effective but also its a case of Russia’s personnel, weapons and military strategists being vastly superior to that of the US and NATO. I am not surprised that Russia is winning this conflict and quite comfortably. What surprises me is the humiliating way in which Russia is embarrassing over 30 nations single-handedly. Russia has literally boomeranged all of the US and EU sanctions against their creators, transformed the Ruble into one of the world’s most powerful and emerging currencies and defeated the biggest and most battle hardened NATO military in all of Europe. All with an army of a few hundred thousand. Just to put things in perspective when Hitler invaded Poland in WW2 he did so with 1.5 million Nazi soldiers.
Russia has risen to their challenges.
TB-2 can be used better, if to give this UAV in proper hands, to RAF (RusAF) for example. And Turkey is not the west.
NATO gave a bunch of second rate drone parts to Turkey to assemble and advertise as a Turkish product in order to create plausible deniability when useful idiot Turkey hands out these pieces of junk to various pro-NATO states or conflicts.
Did they?
Bayraktar f****** you left right and centre make sure you enjoy it 🖕
No, not only that, we also raised gasoline prices in America by 300% (remember Biden’s words “Putin did it”) As well as record inflation in the EU countries, and complete dissonance regarding sanctions, the 6 package has stalled, and they are being paid 100 billion euros for gas. So the successes are much more than one Popasnaya, Mariupol and the Kherson region, part of Zaporozhye and others, and a bunch of captured fascists fed by NATO. And if we take into account that Ukraine screamed that they were the best army in Europe, then the rest of Europe is doing even worse. And their weapons are burning here for a lot of money. Oh, and would not forget the food crisis in Europe and the USA, anything else? In Russia, EVERYTHING is there, both food and energy, in Russia we pay $ 40 per 1000 cubic meters. And parallel imports will bring every luxury. And there is no more petrodollar, the Sheikh of the UAE called Moscow a second home. But the gas ruble is getting stronger, 49 countries are already paying for gas to OUR banks. Is there something else?
“in Russia we pay $ 40 per 1000 cubic meters”
~75 actually and in rubles.
The Turks are angry. Ukrainians are worthless bayraktar operators, a lot of photos with damaged bayraktars with an unflagged bc. Hence the conclusion, and they will also handle NATO weapons in the same way. Well, then that’s fine, let the weapons burn in the inept hands of the Ukrainian reservists of the 5th wave of mobilization.
Turks have no reason to be angry. They got their money and new contracts after destroying first shipments. I would have no wonder, if Erdogan sends coordinates of warehouses with new shipments to Russia.
Wonderful comment.
The point is gayraktor is a worthless drone. It performs well only where there is no air defence.
There’s been image confirmation of 10 bayraktars shot down. What about the rest?
Imagination 🤣
Objective control data from AA radars. Every AA complex records its own activity (like flight recorder in planes) to give correct data for headquarter. TB-2 is easy target, not so small, quite slow not maneuverable, flying not higher than 8 km. “Tor”, and “Pantsir” can intercept even smaller drones made of wood and plastic, like it was in Syria.
90 bayraktar hahahahahahaha
Source: trust me bro
🤣🤣🤣 in month later it will be 345 I guess. Funny Russians
Use extinguisher, your ass in flames. Be careful, don’t burn your chair.
Hahahaha the russians are so bad at propaganda that they used the same bayraktar that they had destroyed, this destroyed bayraktar was moved to several places to say that they had destroyed several bayraktar. people noticed the scam easily.
the Bayraktar work so well that the Ukrainians use them to hit targets directly in RUSSIA.
the Russians are crazy with the Bayraktar, the Russian propaganda said that in the first month 100 bayraktar were destroyed but this figure went down to 30, overnight! so funny these russians
Keep making you döner and baklava, your bayraktar is scrap and nothing else, turks make’s nothing useful except garbage ,most of parts in your scrap are from Israel or China, you can’t even made your own parts
It’s not bayraktar. It’s Gayrectum.
x5-6 and you’ll get total price in millions — 450-540 million dollars for 90 UAVs minus cost of remote control hardware. UAVs almost useless against strong anti-air defense. You need to take down almost all AA systems to operate UAVs with success or to use it against small or inferior armies. In other hand, if no strong AA, it’s better to use bomber planes, because they hold more load. That’s why “Suhoy” has created unmanned 20-ton plane “Hunter”, it can use all specter of bombs (guided and free-fall), missiles and even anti-air missile for self-defense, same as Su-34.
hahahhaha, I thought Ukrainians viewed these drones as crucial to victory? what happened? Not got enough? did they place too much faith in the machines rather than, a winning strategy? i wonder
Erdoggy’s turkish delight indeed
The turkish delight is much better with a turkish coffe, it seems that is what is missing in Ukraine, a turkish coffe with each drone to devenir a real frightening killer drone !
Gayractor
The BAYRAKTAR has to its credit…or fame the most shot down drone in history???