Drones in recent years have changed course of many conflicts
and despite old expectations new military powers are emerging because of their drone potentials
iran and turkey are the main new drone powers and they know how to properly use their weapons
but which one has been more effective and which is more advanced let's have a look to know
over the last two years drone strikes have shifted the trajectory of conflicts from yemen libya iraq
and persian gulf through to the caucasus ethiopia and even ukraine by looking at the world's most
prolific drone powers such as iran and turkey it becomes clear that the new drone age has altered
the rules of war based on a report from washington post it is estimated that more than a hundred
countries are trying to develop or acquire drone technology among them there are those powers who
we normally used to see like united states china russia and israel but iran and turkey also in
the restless region of middle east have risen to the top of this technology and are already
challenging their opponents and exporting their products comparing drones of these two neighboring
countries is not easy because there are serious differences in the technologies and scope of
their uavs though we can do a comparison between just two similar models which have already proven
their efficiency in different conflicts first of all turkey has limited models of drones their best
has been the Bayraktar tb2 for many years and the newly introduced Akinci has not yet been
tested in the battlefield but iran has more than 10 types of different drones for different tasks
and has already manufactured them in thousands secondly turkey is not sanctioned like iran
so they not only have the chance to receive many vital parts for their drones from abroad but they
can also sell their final products to whoever they want therefore technologies used in turkish drones
are also more complicated and up to date and the third point is that turkey manufactures drones
in a way to use them as the main weapon on the battlefield iran's strategy is different they tend
to use their drones in coordination with ballistic missiles to provide a mixed attack on targets
so drones for iran is still in the second important place as a strategic weapon now to
compare with turkish bioreactor tb2 the best and closest model could be the shahad 149 or the gaza
drone based under reported specifications length of tb2 is 6.5 meters and length of iranian gaza
drone is 11 meters the wing span of tb2 is 12 meters but the wing span of gaza is 21 meters
the maximum takeoff mass for tp2 is 700 kilograms and the maximum takeoff mass for the gaza drone is
3200 kilograms the turkish tb2 uses the austrian rotax 912 is engine which is in service since 1984
but it's not clear that the turboprop 650 engine of the iranian drone is being manufactured
inside iran or simply purchased elsewhere the maximum speed for tb2 is 220 kilometers per hour
and the maximum speed for gaza drone is 350 kilometers per hour operational range for tb2
is up to 4 000 kilometers and the range for gaza drone is up to 500 kilometers actually
iran because of political decisions announced that the range of this zone is 2 000 kilometers
but it can really fly up to 5 000 kilometers the service sailing for tb2 is 25 000 feet and
the service sailing for gaza drone is 35 000 feet the flight endurance for tb2 is 27 hours and the
flight endurance for the gaza drone is 35 hours and finally tb2 can carry 4 guided missiles while
gaza drone can carry 13 missiles so as you see the gaza drone could be more powerful than tb2
at least based on the specifications there is also one proof for that the bioreactor tb2 despite its
real efficiency has been numerously taken down in libya karabakh war and especially ukraine war
mostly by russian pancreas system on the contrary gaza's younger brother the shahad 129
which has been in service for several years has not been used in full-fledged wars
like tb2 though it has faced u.s systems many times and was never shot down or taken
iran uses shahed 129 and other drones constantly against us and israeli targets throughout middle
east especially in persian gold from iraq and has been able to cause too much casualties thanks for
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