Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Drones

  • After EU recommendation: Frontex drone allowed to fly in civilian airspace in Greece

    After EU recommendation: Frontex drone allowed to fly in civilian airspace in Greece

    Two Israeli arms companies are offering their long-range drones in Europe for border surveillance. In addition to the military in Switzerland, the Greek coast guard is also carrying out corresponding missions. For more than a year, the EU border agency…

  • Laws for “U-Spaces”: More airspace for commercial drones

    Laws for “U-Spaces”: More airspace for commercial drones

    At an aviation trade fair in Cologne, Deutsche Telekom’s business and the surveillance of commercial drone flights are also on the agenda As in Hamburg, small civilian drones could soon be conducting test flights within a so-called “U-Space” airspace in…

  • Ukraine war: Iran now becomes a single-use drone power

    Ukraine war: Iran now becomes a single-use drone power

    Russia’s war in Ukraine is increasingly being fought with unmanned systems. Both sides are using so-called “loitering munitions” originating from the US or Iran. A new Iranian drone clone could also soon be flying attacks. Iran wants to export more…

  • Jammers: Even more drone defence for Ukraine

    Jammers: Even more drone defence for Ukraine

    Russia and Ukraine are now fighting a drone war. The US, Germany and now NATO are supplying technology against it. The Ukraine war has long since become a drone war. In no other military conflict have so many unmanned aerial…

  • Loitering munition: Rheinmetall sells first kamikaze drones to NATO state

    Loitering munition: Rheinmetall sells first kamikaze drones to NATO state

    In the present wars, the military is increasingly using remote-controlled warheads. The German defence ministry calls such weapons “worrying”. But after similar plans a decade ago, the Bundeswehr is again considering to procure them. For the first time, the arms…

  • Criticism over research: EU Commission funds platform to predict “migration flows”

    Criticism over research: EU Commission funds platform to predict “migration flows”

    In an Open Letter, eleven organisations criticise the creation of an infrastructure for predictive migration technologies. The tool, which is also supposed to anticipate “tensions”, is based on “artificial intelligence”. It could therefore contradict a forthcoming EU regulation. To prevent…