Open channel recording of Bayraktar TB2 hitting Russian Raptor boats:
▪️“81, I'm 85. Where is the air support?” ▪️“85, I am 81. No air support” ▪️“How long has it been gone? Bayraktar is shooting, fuck! 4 missiles fired! 82 and 83 motionless! The drone is after me! I'm alone!"
Not that I don't believe this but who is the author and what are his sources?
I've always thought that the Chinese drones where of poor quality, but when it recently got leaked that the Egyptians needed French aerial (manned) ISR capability to bomb some smugglers while they supposedly have a fleet of dozens of Chinese drones, it really sealed my view of Chinese drones.
Turkey is working on a ramjet air-to-air missile named Gökhan:
Turkish air-to-air missiles as following
Akdogan: mini air-to-air missile for use on UCAV's against other UAV's
Bozdogan: WVR missile (25km)
Gokdogan: BVR missile (more than 65km and later blocks 100km)
Gökhan: BVR ramjet missile (meteor equivalent)
These questions I have too but found no information other than mere forum speculations. Even on the Chinese 'side' of the internet. The Chinese are reluctant to share anything about their military engines, be it piston or turbine.
Does Latvian COIN capability make it harder or impossible for Russia to instigate such a rebellion knowing that they would need to take direct military action against a NATO members' asset in NATO airspace and thus triggering article 5?
Yes -> Russia is deterred (for now at least)