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HDC3 t1_iuhqu5x wrote

As a Canadian I approve of this and urge our government and industry to do more so support Ukraine.

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Karl___Marx t1_iui1f3w wrote

It's a bit of a mixed bag. Canada cancelled exports of military equipment to Turkey because of their technology being used to kill civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh.

These drones were probably some of the few assembled prior to the sanctions going up and were transferred from Turkey to Ukraine.

It would be great if Canada could leave Turkey out as a a middle man.

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Dividedthought t1_iuiexni wrote

The parts in question here are the optics and camera systems from what I remember. Canada sent a bunch of these camera and optics upgrades to ukraine (as we had them/could send them) which is a step up over the optics and cameras on the base bayraktar. This has been ongoing for a while now.

So we are leaving turkey out as the middle man in this case. We have everything needed to produce these upgrades, and ukraine knows how to install them. Weird how russia hasn't complained about this until now, I guess the upgrades are working as intended.

Edit:

Sounds like rhey're talking about the boat drones. Seems the drone boats are based around a seadoo (jetski, canadian company) and have a canadian navigation system on board. Again, them complaining just indicates these things are effective.

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aequitssaint t1_iui4fgz wrote

It would also be great if NATO could just leave Turkey out.

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MixBlender t1_iuii6n1 wrote

The bosphorus is way too valuable for nato to not have an interest in

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dv666 t1_iuiyqj0 wrote

Yes, let's boot out one of the most important countries in the world's most important military alliance. Yes, that'll surely help the west obtain it's goals.

People seriously need to think before they post

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