Following up to <<From my Azeri sources the real reason of the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan is purely economic >>en.wikipedia.org VIDEO reuters.com , which is most likely unwise for Taiwan to partake, Team China is gearing up to export the latest and as the Zhuhai Airshow defenceweb.co.za is postponed, marketing by other means being tee-ed up scmp.com VIDEO Cheap drones from China , Turkey and Israel are fueling conflicts like Armenia and Azerbaijan's "scmp.com and in all cases far less so than either Team Russia or America, what with the pipe lines and such you noted. But I digress. There is little point in calling out NBC as it be simply another suspect MSM.nbcnews.com Cheap drones from China, Turkey and Israel are fueling conflicts like Armenia and Azerbaijan's video seems to show Armenian soldiers desperately firing into the sky as an ominous buzzing sound increases in pitch like a German World War II dive bomber . Seconds later, a drone plunges into the roof of a bus, its 50-pound warhead consuming the vehicle in a ball of fire. Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles — UCAVs — in military speak, are upping the casualties in long-simmering regional conflicts that until now have been low-level — limited in large part by smaller countries' inability to make precision strikes on forces at and beyond the front line.drone strikes made their confirmed debut with the Predator just a few weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, they were wielded by powerful countries like the United States against insurgents and terrorists, such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda.U.S. tightly restricted the export of its expensive Predator and Reaper UCAVs to close allies. But China, Israel and Turkey developed their own UCAVs, which they have widely exported (and, in the latter two cases, used extensively). Chinese-built Wing Loong drones last year to support the Libyan National Army faction inside Libya, where they gained infamy for deadly strikes using laser-guided Blue Arrow missiles . When Turkey intervened in behalf of the opposing side, it deployed a fleet of domestically built Bayraktar TB2 drones , which eventually overwhelmed and destroyed most of the Libyan National Army's Russian-built air defense systems, forcing the army to end its siege of Tripoli and withdraw from a key air base this May . destroying over 100 armored vehicles — bringing Assad's initially successful assault on the rebel stronghold reeling to a halt. transferred Bayraktar drones to Azerbaijan , which has been locked for over three decades in a conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Late last month, Azerbaijan launched a broad ground and air offensive , using the drones to destroy at least a dozen Armenian air defense systems in the early hours of the conflict. Azerbaijan has since released videos of the drones destroying dozens of Armenian tanks and artillery systems, as well as resupply and reinforcement convoys.Israeli-built Harop (Harpy) drone responsible for the bus attack, a "loitering munition" that combines the remote control and long endurance attributes of a drone with the deadly strike capabilities of a guided missile. tens of millions of dollars to procure and tens of thousands of dollars per flight hour to operate and maintain — and, most importantly, it has a highly trained, nonexpendable pilot on board. Risking the loss of a manned jet and its pilot is often seen as unacceptable materially and politically in anything short of an all-out high-intensity conflict. New combat drones from China and Turkey, by contrast, cost in the low millions of dollars , are significantly cheaper to fly per hour and — without pilots on board — are much more expendable. significant numbers have been shot down by short-range air defenses. But that just highlights how drones can be used more aggressively, since a lost drone doesn't put the operator's life at risk.swarms of small, expendable drones , giving attackers an advantage for the time being.rampant use of drones to assassinate "high-value targets" is anything to go by.India , Pakistan , Serbia and Ukraine are all purchasing attack drones. push to deregulate armed drone sales in a bid to allow U.S. manufacturers to compete in an export market dominated by China, Israel and Turkey. Instead, Washington should sell potentially destabilizing offensive weapons only to trustworthy allies, such as Japan and Germany, that can be counted upon to use them in ways that advance U.S. interests and that are in keeping with American values. 
