16 Terrorist rats have been sent to donkey heaven!
What is more saddening that the downing itself, is that the whole event affects profile and fame of Turkish UAVs. I can't really accept it calmly when those UAVs are downed by some junk Pantsirs just because those were not the targets.Another Aksungur down, bringing the number to 3 in the last year. No matter the politics with Iraqi army being fractured and it being strengthened with modern SAMs and aircraft from Korea and France, it is possible we will see similar events repeat in the future.
Killing the dude who gave the order and destroying a couple Pantsir would be a proper answer.
Another Turkish UAV is shot down. I wrote shot down because it has clear shrapnel damage on the wing in the second photo.
According to Iraqi sources, the Armed Forces of Iraq shot down the UAV. The UAV is Aksungur. 4 ground to air missiles are fired to shoot down the Aksungur UAV.
The reason is to sabotage the Turkiye, Iraq, Qatar, and UAE meeting that is happening today in Turkiye. The meeting is about a trade route that will pass through Iraq and Turkiye. Qatar and UAE is willing to provide financial aid for the project. I think the usual suspect is Iranian assets inside the Armed Forces of Iraq.
What we need is Turkish Global Hawk :UAV capable of flying above 60.000 altitude , an altitude happens to be above maximum altitude of many SAMs yet none in armed forces/TAI/BAYKAR seems to understand importance of this type of UAV.