It is also the most aggressive force in modern drone warfare, both direct and by proxy. Iran, backed by Russia and China, is today the most powerful military counterweight to Israel. The ancient ghosts of Persian imperium have been resurrected in the Coliseum of West Asia. When Russia annexed Crimea by force in 2014, it deployed ‘interceptor’ drones against Ukrainian fighter jets. The drone war between the two countries isn’t new to the region, although technological upgrades have increased its lethality. Combat drones, both Russian and Ukrainian, are outlining the face of war. Loaded with laser-guided bombs, these drones have annihilated entire tank columns and killed countless Russian soldiers, thereby becoming symbols of Ukrainian resistance to tyranny. Russian bandits are made into ghosts by… Bayraktar! The Bayraktar the young fighter refers to is the Turkish-made TB2 combat drone, which is wreaking havoc on Russia’s army and armaments ever since Putin invaded Ukraine in February. Wars are not always won with superior weapons resistance fighters have crippled and demoralised large occupying armies.īorovok’s lyrics inspire his warrior comrades to fight on They wanted to invade us with force, and we took offence at these orcs. In early March, a song titled Bayraktar, rendered enthusiastically by a young Ukrainian soldier named Taras Borovok debuted on YouTube. The Indian Gnat, the B52 bomber, the Spitfire, the Sherman tank and the AK47 have marked the end and beginning of military eras. Every significant war throws up iconic weapons. It has finally come of age now during the Russo-Ukraine War. The Drone Era arrived with the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. The die is cast and the player who will determine the course of the Middle Eastern conflict could be the combat drone. Significantly, Russian generals were in Tehran at the same time, shopping for drones. The timing was significant, coinciding with US President Joe Biden’s Saudi Arabia visit on July 15. State TV streamed visuals of a new ‘drone carrier’ division launching Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from warships and a submarine. Meanwhile, the Iranian Navy flexed its own muscle. It’s a military collaboration meant to neutralise drone attacks, missiles and rockets launched by Iran or its proxies, into their territory. There have been reports of Israel building a US-inspired ‘regional air defence alliance’, which includes many Middle Eastern countries. But the haboobs of hell are blowing aside the dunes of distrust after supporting terrorism diplomatically, financially, militarily and territorially, many sheikhdoms are uniting with the Jewish state against a common enemy-Iran. Once Arab nations had waged war against Israel, vowing to drive it to the sea. The age-old maxim, ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend', has prevailed for centuries in the strife-ridden politics of West Asia. Today, nearly all Middle Eastern Sunni nations feel threatened by the expansionist ambitions of nuclear-enabled Shia Iran Arabs in the seventh century brought Islam to Persia after conquering the Sasanian Empire. The Sahara is a vast graveyard of countless empires such as the Sasanian and the Byzantine, the Mamluks and the Ottomans, and the last, the British Empire.
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