Turkish drone manufacturer Bayraktar has suffered major reputational losses because of the conflict in Ukraine – the prospects for new contracts are very dim.
The Readovka telegraph channel writes about it.
The drone manufacturer is owned by President Erdogan’s son-in-law. After the Karabakh conflict in 2020, where the Azerbaijani army successfully used Bayraktar TB2 drones, videos of their strikes were successfully circulated online, many believed in the invulnerability of these machines, and drones themselves became something like a “super weapon” in the minds of the Ukrainian public.
Ukraine has also fallen for the Turkish advertising gimmick and became one of the buyers of the drones even before the SMO started. It should be noted that during the first days of the special operation videos of strikes against Russian convoys did indeed begin to appear on the net, but later such videos became less and less, and by the end of March they were altogether lost.
The next blow to the reputation of the Bayraktars was the AFU’s decision to use them in raids on Russian border towns. Today, social networks are simply flooded with pictures of downed Turkish drones in the Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions. This is certainly not the kind of content that Selcuk Bayraktar and his father-in-law Recep Erdogan would like to see.
Ukrainian President Zelenski, who first refused to comment on the significant losses of the Bayraktars and then told a press conference that the drones had little or no impact on the course of hostilities, also added fuel to the fire.
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