Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urged the international community today to follow Canada's example by suspending exports of military technology to Turkey — after his defence officials claimed they had found Canadian components on a downed Turkish drone. Pashinyan made the call a day after Armenian defence officials displayed what they claimed are parts of a Turkish combat drone and its Canadian-made optical and target acquisition systems. Armenian defence officials said the surveillance and attack drone was equipped with a state-of-the-art camera and target acquisition system produced by L3 Harris WESCAM in Burlington, Ont. @NikolPashinyan pic.twitter.com/Vxc69s8qHv —@armgovThe WESCAM CMX-15D system was manufactured in June of this year and installed on the downed Bayraktar TB2 in September, said Shushan Stepanyan, spokesperson for the Armenian Defence Ministry. "We've seen Turkey export the [Bayaraktar] TB2s to Libya, certainly, in breach of the UN arms embargo, to their allies there.

Source: CBC News October 20, 2020 22:18 UTC