Turkish Bayraktar TB2 attack drone received by UkraineMOSCOW, Feb 10Ukraine is experiencing operational problems Turkish drones due to the lack of suitable runways, this was stated by a 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 that we must solve in any case, except for one thing — if we give up aviation,» Chmut said. jpg» />Military experts named the Achilles' heel of the Ukrainian armyAs the expert noted, only large airfields used by civil aviation are suitable for heavy Turkish Akinci drones, while military airfields are only «theoretically» suitable for them. «This is a matter of resource and resource of the racks (chassis element — ed.). For example, Bayraktar (delivered to Kiev TB2. — ed.), which are lighter, we had problems with the racks. There is a concept of take-off and landing resource, and if you need every three take-offs and landings to change racks, then this is such a story, not really,» Chmut said. He added that Ukraine needs to «do something» with the runways at airfields of the Air Force, since the existing Soviet ones are not suitable in this case. In 2018-2020 years Ukraine imported Turkish strike unmanned aerial systems Bayraktar TV2, the purchase of which took 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.
