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Drones are playing an important role in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, being the most damaging weapon for armored vehicles, multi-barrel rocket launchers and the Armenian air defense complex.
Azerbaijan also announced the destruction of an S-300 air defense complex, using an Israeli-made Harop suicide drone. Armenia has rejected this claim, according to the Asia Times.
Harop is a suicide drone built by an Israeli aerospace industry corporation. Harop is anti-radiation, specializing in tracking radio sources, and designed to find and destroy enemy air defense systems.
Harop has a stealth body structure design, making it difficult to detect and prevent enemy air defense systems. Harop has low radiant properties, which means it will be more difficult for radars and radars to detect the drone.
The Israeli UAV model has a length of 2.5 meters and a wingspan of 3 meters, designed to carry explosives weighing 23 kg. It can work continuously in the air for 6 hours, with a range of about 1,000 km.
Israeli suicide drones sold to Azerbaijan.
Named the suicide UAV, Harop will rush into the enemy air defense system once he detects the source of the radio transmission.
Israel also supplies Azerbaijan with a wide range of different weapon-carrying drones, including Skystriker, Orbiter 1K, Orbiter 3, ThunderB, Hermes 450, Hermes 900, and Heron TP.
The Skystriker drone produced by Israel’s Elbit Systems is much smaller than the Harop. Skystriker can carry a 5 kg explosive warhead, fly a patrol for 2 hours, a range of 20 km. Skystriker also appeared during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenian army announced that it had shot down many of these unmanned aerial vehicles.
In addition to the Israeli UAVs, the drones that fought in Nagorno-Karabakh also included the Turkish UCAV Bayraktar TB2. Experts say it is not ruled out that Turkey directly controls the Bayraktar TB2 UAV, causing considerable damage to Armenia.
Bayraktar TB2 drones and carry weapons.
Bayraktar TB2 has proven itself in destroying many of the military supplies supplied by Russia in Syria and Libya. This UCAV (Combat UAV) model disabled three Pantsir air defense systems in Libya. Bayraktar TB2 also destroyed two Pantsir systems in Idlib province, Syria.
The advantage of UCAVs is the ability to penetrate deep into the battlefield, to launch attacks from above with precision. The cost of building UCAVs is also much cheaper than conventional fighters, which are remotely controlled so they can be deployed in series.
Videos released by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense show that the drone destroyed many high-value anti-aircraft targets and many Armenian armored vehicles, including the T-72 tank.
Thanks to drones manufactured by Israel and Turkey, the Azerbaijani army destroyed at least three 9K35 Strela-10 air defense systems, 6 Armenian 9k33 Osa systems. These are all outdated air defense systems and are not capable of detecting UAVs.
Armenian T-72 tanks spotted the Azerbaijan drone.
On the other side of the front line, Armenia has Su-30SM fighters and Su-25 attackers. These planes entered the war in a very limited way due to the risk of being shot down by the enemy. At least one Su-25 was shot down by Turkish F-16s in the last conflict, according to Armenia.
In response to the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, General Oleg Salyukov, the commander of the Russian army, said that Moscow is urgently building new missile projectiles, equipped with the Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile complex to deal with UAVs and UCAVs.
“The Tor-M2 air defense complex is the most effective weapon against tactical drones. However, it costs more to produce a missile than to build a UAV. We are developing new missile munitions that are much cheaper, ”said Mr. Salyukov.
It can be said that what is happening at the Nagorno-Karabakh hotspot shows that armed drones are becoming the new weapon to shape the modern battlefield.
Compact size, low cost and mass production military weapons completely dominate compared to expensive fighters. UCAVs not only cause significant damage to enemy air defenses, but also help reduce loss of life in the event of a downed drone.
It can be said that the intentions of each side in using UAVs to attack could make future wars much more complicated, according to Asia Times.
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