In August 2014, a small, carbon-fiber aircraft with an inverted V-tail and a pusher propeller rose from a Turkish test range and proved that a medium-altitude drone could be both affordable and lethal. The Bayraktar TB2, developed by Baykar Makina under the technical direction of Selçuk Bayraktar, was Turkey’s answer to a decade of battlefield experience with Israeli and American unmanned systems. Its first flight came just three years after the company’s earlier TB1 had entered service, and by December 2015 the TB2 was test-firing Roketsan laser-guided micro-munitions. The aircraft carried a 100-horsepower engine, a twelve-meter wingspan, and four hardpoints for MAM-C or MAM-L smart bombs. What made the TB2 historic was not its specifications alone, but its export. Ukraine ordered twelve systems in January 2019; when Russia invaded in February 2022, Ukrainian TB2s attacked Russian road columns, destroyed surface-to-air missile systems, and became a symbol of resistance. In Azerbaijan’s 2020 conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, the TB2 demonstrated that a relatively inexpensive drone could neutralize tanks and artillery when paired with networked loitering munitions. The TB2 did not invent drone warfare, but it democratized it—proving that a nation need not be a superpower to command the skies.