A senior adviser to the President of Azerbaijan has confirmed that his country uses "Harup" aircraft in the fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. • The Turkish media published documentation of the operation of the UAV
Israeli suicide UAV model "Harup" // Photo: AP
Wisdom Hajayev, senior foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, confirmed to Israel Today (Wednesday) that his country uses "Harup" suicide drones during its war against the Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
This is official confirmation of many reports that the Azeri army is operating the tiny aircraft, defined in professional parlance as "roaming ammunition", to hit Armenian separatist forces and the Armenian army in the disputed region.
Turkish media, including the Yani Spock newspaper, have documented the use of suicide bombers during the fighting, which shows damage to Armenian tanks, trucks and infantry using suicide bombers.
The telling sign that this is "roaming ammunition" is the fact that the photo from the aircraft comes almost to the moment of hitting the target.
The Turkish media did not claim that it was Israeli-made ammunition and only claimed that it was an "Azeri Kamikaze UAV." In other news items in the Turkish media, the authors emphasized Azerbaijan's use of Turkish-made UAVs.
The "Arup" suicide drone is a roving ammunition made by IAI and is considered one of the most advanced of its kind in the world. It is able to roam for many hours, with a maximum flight range of 1,000 kilometers and is even able to land at its base if no target is found. Foreign sources, in 2016 when the Azerbaijani army made successful use of it against a bus carrying Armenian soldiers.
Fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region continued today, for the fourth day in a row after the Azerbaijani army on Sunday launched an offensive along the northern and eastern lines of the Armenian-held territories.
