When I asked him about the use of his drones in Ukraine, he told me, вЂњTheyвЂ™re doing what theyвЂ™re supposed to do-taking out some of the most advanced air-defense systems and armored vehicles in the world.вЂќ Bayraktar, who is forty-two years old, has a widowвЂ™s peak, soft eyes, and a slightly off-center nose. He was in Istanbul, at the headquarters of his company, Baykar Technologies, which employs more than two thousand people. I spoke with Bayraktar in March, via video. вЂњThis probably happens once every thirty or forty years.вЂќ вЂњThis enabled a fairly significant operational revolution in how wars are being fought right now,вЂќ Rich Outzen, a former State Department specialist on Turkey, told me. Military analysts had previously assumed that slow, low-flying drones would be of little use in conventional combat, but the TB2 can take out the anti-aircraft systems that are designed to destroy it. The bombs it carries can adjust their trajectories in midair, and are so accurate that they can be delivered into an infantry trench. The TB2 has now carried out more than eight hundred strikes, in conflicts from North Africa to the Caucasus. In 2020, in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, AzerbaijanвЂ™s dictatorial leader, Ilham Aliyev, used the TB2 to target vehicles and troops, then displayed footage of the strikes on digital billboards in the capital city of Baku. Since then, it has been sold to at least thirteen countries, bringing the tactic of the precision air strike to the developing world and reversing the course of several wars. In April, 2016, the TB2 scored its first confirmed kill. In the defense of Ukraine, Bayraktar has become a legend, the namesake of a baby lemur at the Kyiv zoo, and the subject of a catchy folk song, which claims that his drone вЂњmakes ghosts out of Russian bandits.вЂќ Its designer, SelГ§uk Bayraktar, the son of a Turkish auto-parts entrepreneur, is one of the worldвЂ™s leading weapons manufacturers. It carries laser-guided bombs and is small enough to be carried in a flatbed truck, and costs a fraction of similar American and Israeli drones. The Bayraktar TB2 is a flat, gray unmanned aerial vehicle (U.A.V.), with angled wings and a rear propeller. вЂњBehold the work of our life-giving Bayraktar!вЂќ ZaluzhnyiвЂ™s translated caption read. At the center of the screen, a targeting system locked onto a vehicle in the middle of the convoy seconds later, the vehicle exploded, and a tower of burning fuel rose into the sky. Russia had invaded Ukraine several days earlier, and Kherson, a shipbuilding hub at the mouth of the Dnieper River, was an important strategic site.

This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.ДЄ video posted toward the end of February on the Facebook page of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of UkraineвЂ™s armed forces, showed grainy aerial footage of a Russian military convoy approaching the city of Kherson.

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