Bayraktar TB2
27 February 2023
14:20 UTC
Aircraft
Bayraktar
Other countries apart from Turkey, with TB2s would appear to include (in alphabetical order)
Other countries apart from Turkey, with TB2s would appear to include (in alphabetical order)
- Azerbaijan : Azerbaijani Ministery of Defence and Turkish Air Force
- Burkina Faso (Update : 07/01/2022)
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gambia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Libya
- Morocco : CN-AOM, CN-AOS
- Somalia (tentative)
- Ukrain
Origin : VAN
VAN
LTCI
Van
Van Province
TurkeyElevation : 1670m / 5480ft
Coordinates : 38°27′6″N 43°19′56″E
Comment
An entangled 001071 !Trackers quite reasonably assume an ADS-B code is unique to an aircraft. As a result when code 001071 appears at spot X and later pops up at Y, it's mapping software assumes the craft with code 001071 moved from X to Y even if that would mean the machine traveled at warp 12.
What really happens is that two aircraft with the same ADS-B code appeared in the same tracking time window and the software again proves that "assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups".
Anyway it turns out this 'glitch' is rather useful when it comes to exported Turkish TB2s.
The TB2s come 'out-of-the-box' with ADS-B 001071 or the code they were last tested with at Keşan (LTFL). So when the proud new owner starts it up and a Turkish TB2 with that same ADS-B is up, they become 'entangled' and we 'know' a new TB2 took to the skies somewhere outside Turkey.
In this case it would appear that, surprise, surprise, Pakistan also has TB2s.
We almost certainly saw them being delivered : TUAF529 earlier this month.
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