In the skies over Sudan, a proxy contest between Turkish and Chinese drone technology has quietly produced a verdict that arms markets worldwide will not ignore. Since late June, Turkish-made Bayraktar Akıncı unmanned aircraft operated by Sudan's national military have destroyed six Chinese CH-95 strike drones supplied to the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces — a streak that transforms an ongoing civil war into an inadvertent field trial. The latest intercept introduced a new Turkish loitering munition, the EREN, to combat for the first time, deepening the asymmetry. What began as a regional con