Any publicity is good to take, said Andy Warhol. The Russian company Almaz-Antei, which manufactures the Pantsir S1 anti-aircraft close protection system, should hardly share this opinion in recent days. Indeed, according to the Turkish authorities, and videos conspicuously published on the internet, Turkish armed drones reportedly destroyed eight such systems around the city of Idleb, the focus of an armed confrontation between Syrian forces loyal to Bashar al Assad and pro-Turkish Islamist militias backed by Ankara's armed forces.
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