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Military drones (Bayraktar, Shahed)
Istanbul, Turkey41.00°N 28.97°E
computed criticality10/100
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Armed drone commoditized: ~44 states equipped, TB2 (Baykar) exported to 34 countries; Shahed, MQ-9
2024Fault line
The combat drone, once reserved to the US, is now mass-produced by Turkey and Iran and copied everywhere, upending the economics of war and relying on commercial electronics.
Actors
Baykar (Turkey)
HESA (Iran)
General Atomics
AeroVironment
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