Tag: Frontex
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Frontex monitors sea border with unmanned airship
In the new Frontex budget, more than two billion euros have been reserved for the procurement of the company’s own ships, aircraft and automobiles. After drones, the EU Commission is now testing other technologies for aerial border surveillance The Greek…
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Rheinmetall builds armed drone tank
More and more states have unmanned land vehicles that can be armed or used for surveillance. Programmed missions are carried out completely autonomous. The Rheinmetall armaments group has developed a “Multimission Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (MMUGV) that is about to go…
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German Airports: Face recognition now also for children
When crossing an EU external border, all travellers will soon have to provide biometric data. This leads to long waiting times and border controls are therefore becoming increasingly automated. This will first benefit people who have already stored facial images…
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Germany’s rescue drone will not fly in the Mediterranean
Unmanned systems could help to rescue shipwrecked boats in the Mediterranean. However, a new German sea rescue drone is only to be used in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Under the name “LARUS”, the German Government develops drones for…