TSAMTO, February 10. Ukraine is experiencing problems with the operation of Turkish drones due to the lack of suitable GDP. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by military analyst, chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Military Center Taras Chmut, the corresponding video is posted on YouTube.
According to him, runways are one of the problems in general for Ukrainian aviation. "This is a problem that we live with, and which we must solve in any case, except for one thing – if we abandon aviation," T. Chmut said.
As the expert noted, only large airfields used by civil aviation are suitable for heavy Turkish Akinci drones, while military airfields are suitable for them only "theoretically".
"This is a matter of resource and resource of the chassis racks. For example, with the Bayraktar UAVs delivered, which are lighter than Akinci, we had problems with the racks. There is a concept of a take-off and landing resource, and if you need to change racks every three takeoffs and landings, then this is a big problem," T. Chmut noted.
He added that Ukraine needs to "do something" with the runways at the airfields of the Air Force, since the existing Soviet ones are not suitable in this case.
As RIA Novosti reminds, in 2018-2020. Ukraine imported Turkish Bayraktar TV2 unmanned aerial systems worth about $74 million. In early February, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine and Turkey had signed an agreement expanding the production of Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles in the country.
