Turkey believed that Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems would not be able to withstand the Bayraktar TB2 strike reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The general director of Baykar, Haluk Bayraktar, expressed doubts about the electronic warfare systems in an interview with journalist Ibrahim Haskologlu on Twitch, RIA Novosti reports.
“Russian electronic warfare systems could not stop Bayraktar TB2 even for an hour,” Bayraktar concluded, explaining that the drone is protected from electronic warfare, so it “will always be in the air.”
Earlier, the industrial director of the Rostec weapons complex, Bekkhan Ozdoev, in an interview with Izvestia, called the Russian reconnaissance and strike complex Orion-E a “classmate” of the Turkish Bayraktar TB2. According to him, at present “Russia has its own line of kamikaze drones.” The industrial director pointed out that according to some characteristics of “loitering ammunition” Russian developments “even surpass foreign competitors.”
In May last year, Ukraine announced the weaknesses of Russian electronic warfare. According to the Ukrainian consulting agency Defense Express, such complexes, in particular, can suppress the work of not only enemy equipment, but also their own equipment, and are not unique, but represent a further development of Soviet technologies and contain from 5 to 10 percent of foreign components.
