Turkish Air Force TAI Aksungur Shot down

A Turkish TAI Aksungur armed drone was shot down over the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on the morning of 29 August 2024. Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement that its air defences had tracked the aircraft after it entered the Kirkuk Operations Command sector and engaged it when it reached the centre of the city, where it had not been identified by any security agency or coalition force. Iraqi security sources cited by Türkiye Today said a Pantsir system fired on the drone, whose wreckage fell on a residential house. The incident prompted diplomatic exchanges between Ankara and Baghdad.