A report by the National Interest website reported evidence of the arrival of drones manufactured in China on the fronts of the fighting in Libya, indicating that the remnants of explosive missiles had been found near Tripoli in the middle of last year, which were made in China.
Aviation expert Arnaud Dalalande wrote that he had received pictures of a broken demonstration of Chinese LJ-7 air-to-surface missiles after it landed in and around Tripoli on four different occasions last April.
Aviation expert Arnaud Dalalande wrote that he had received pictures of a broken demonstration of Chinese LJ-7 air-to-surface missiles after it landed in and around Tripoli on four different occasions last April.
The LJ-7 missile is the weapon used in the Chinese "Wing Long", which includes weapons systems for countries in the Middle East, including Egypt and the UAE, that support the leader of the Libyan forces fighting the National Accord government in Tripoli, Khalifa Hifter, who rose in mid-April His attacks on the reconciliation government.
National Interest reported that the UAE deployed in 2016 the Wing Young drones at Al-Khadim Air Force Base in the Libyan city of Marg to provide air cover for Haftar forces.
Delalande wrote that this small fleet of aircraft participated in air strikes and polling operations to support the forces of Haftar who were fighting militant organizations in Benghazi, especially ISIS and the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, or a group linked to al Qaeda.
But the missiles found in Tripoli are far from this air base, indicating that Wing Long's planes were being run from a runway near Tripoli so they could stay longer in the air and carry out close air support operations.
According to the National Interest report, Beijing is ready to "sell drones to any party to meet the demand for the automatic warplane market, while the United States refuses to meet the needs of this market. Its export laws prohibit American companies that manufacture such drones from selling them to some countries."
With the availability of Chinese weapons in the absence of an American, Saudi Arabia alone requested the purchase of 330 Wing Long type aircraft at a cost of more than $ 10 billion, and this plane had been used by the Kingdom in 2018 to launch the LJ-7 missile that targeted the Houthi leader Saleh Ali al-Samad, and the Houthis were shot down About a year later, a drone is of this type.
US officials are concerned about the arrival of Chinese aircraft to authoritarian regimes and the opponents of the United States.
Malcolm Davis, senior analyst at the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy, said in a previous report that "authoritarian opponents do not need to have an internal debate about deadly autonomous weapons such as Western liberal democracies, because they are not accountable to their people."
"There is no ban on deadly robots in China or Russia. The systems are simply developing and deploying weapons, and exporting them to similar systems in the Middle East," he added.
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