Turkey’s Killer Drone Swarm Poses Syria Air Challenge to Putin
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Soldiers walk through Jabal al-Zawiya on March 1, 2020.
Photographer: Ahmet H. Hatib/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Turkey deployed swarms of killer drones to strike Russian-backed Syrian government forces, in what a senior official said was a military innovation that demonstrated Ankara’s technological prowess on the battlefield.
The retaliation for the killing last week of 33 Turkish soldiers by Syrian forces involved an unprecedented number of drones in coordinated action, said the senior official in Turkey with direct knowledge of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Syria policy. It was the first time a country had commanded the air space over such a large area using drone swarms, according to the official.