Matthias Monroy

Security Architectures in the EU

Schlagwort: European Defence Agency

  • Reconnaissance and attack: German Bundeswehr is working on drone swarms

    Reconnaissance and attack: German Bundeswehr is working on drone swarms

    In various projects, the military and the defence industry are investigating the networking of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. For the Air Force, they could in small numbers support air combat; for the Army, they can detect and destroy nearby targets in large swarms. In various projects, the Army and Air Force are researching the […]

  • Europol steers arms companies for security research

    Europol steers arms companies for security research

    Following the example of the US Department of Defense, Europol should coordinate European security research. In October, the EU interior ministers had decided on an „Innovation Laboratory“ at the Police Agency. Due to potential confusion, the department will now be renamed. Since 1984, the European Union has organised its civil security research in multi-annual framework […]

  • Braunschweig: Large drones on collision course

    Braunschweig: Large drones on collision course

    For certification in Germany, Bundeswehr drones require a system to avoid threatening collisions. The Ministry of Defense is now testing such procedures. Until these systems are ready for series production, German armed drones will be stationed in Israel. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is conducting flight tests with drones […]

  • EU researches drone swarms for maritime surveillance

    EU researches drone swarms for maritime surveillance

    With the support of the EU, arms companies want to try out how 20 different drones can be networked in the air and at sea. Tests will take place in the Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea. In two years „Ocean2020“ should deliver first results. The European Union is funding a research project on the […]