🇩🇿❓🇲🇱 Malian Akıncı drone downed near the Algerian border – Likely shot down by Algerian AD systems:
FLA (Azawad rebels) claim they shot down a Malian Bayraktar Akıncı drone near Tinzawaten last night. However, their forces lack the radar and high-altitude weapons needed to engage a HALE UAV like the Akıncı.
Notably, wreckage included a TEBER glide bomb, confirming the drone was conducting a strike mission. This aligns with Mali’s recent use of Akıncıs for precision attacks near the Algerian border.
The most plausible shooter? Algerian air defenses. A multitude of anti-aircraft defense systems were recently deployed to the region after Mali escalated drone operations in Tinzawaten. The TEBER’s presence suggests the Akıncı was engaged before weapon release.
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FLA (Azawad rebels) claim they shot down a Malian Bayraktar Akıncı drone near Tinzawaten last night. However, their forces lack the radar and high-altitude weapons needed to engage a HALE UAV like the Akıncı.
Notably, wreckage included a TEBER glide bomb, confirming the drone was conducting a strike mission. This aligns with Mali’s recent use of Akıncıs for precision attacks near the Algerian border.
The most plausible shooter? Algerian air defenses. A multitude of anti-aircraft defense systems were recently deployed to the region after Mali escalated drone operations in Tinzawaten. The TEBER’s presence suggests the Akıncı was engaged before weapon release.
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🇩🇿❓🇲🇱 Malian Akıncı drone downed near the Algerian border – Likely shot down by Algerian AD systems: FLA (Azawad rebels) claim they shot down a Malian Bayraktar Akıncı drone near Tinzawaten last night. However, their forces lack the radar and high-altitude…
Mali just lost half of its Akinci fleet 😭
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⚡️🇩🇰 Interesting video of AIM-9M "Sidewinder" short-range missiles being fired from a Royal Danish Air Force F-16BM fighter jet. May 2021.
The target used is a heat decoy dropped from a C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft.
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The target used is a heat decoy dropped from a C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft.
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⚡️🇩🇿🇲🇱 Confirmed: Algerian Army Took Down Malian Akıncı Drone!
Our suspicions were confirmed — the Algerian army shot down a Turkish-made Akıncı drone operated by Mali. This is the first time ever that the Algerian Air Force has shot down a foreign drone.
🔻 Algerian Defense Ministry Statement:
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Our suspicions were confirmed — the Algerian army shot down a Turkish-made Akıncı drone operated by Mali. This is the first time ever that the Algerian Air Force has shot down a foreign drone.
🔻 Algerian Defense Ministry Statement:
Securing the borders. Armed reconnaissance drone shot down.
As part of the efforts made to preserve our national borders, a Territorial Air Defense unit in the 6th Military Region detected and shot down, on the evening of April 1, 2025, around midnight, an armed reconnaissance drone, near the border town of Tin-Zaouatine in the 6th Military Region, having penetrated our airspace over a distance of two (02) kilometers.
This quality operation confirms, once again, the great vigilance and permanent readiness of the units of the National People's Army to preserve our land, air and naval borders from any threat that undermines national sovereignty.
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⚡️🇮🇳 Another IAF Jaguar Down, Second in a Month.
An Indian Air Force Jaguar crashed near Jamnagar, Gujarat. Pilot ejected safely. This is the second Jaguar crash in just a month (The last one went down on March 7th.)
The IAF still flies these aging strike jets, but back-to-back losses like this don’t inspire much confidence.
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An Indian Air Force Jaguar crashed near Jamnagar, Gujarat. Pilot ejected safely. This is the second Jaguar crash in just a month (The last one went down on March 7th.)
The IAF still flies these aging strike jets, but back-to-back losses like this don’t inspire much confidence.
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