Dissecting Security Architectures | Matthias Monroy

Tag: Helicopters

  • Following airplanes and drones: Frontex wants helicopters for border surveillance

    Following airplanes and drones: Frontex wants helicopters for border surveillance

    The EU border agency wants to repeat a failed tender to procure rotary-wing aircraft. These could be used in areas where there is a lack of runways. The scenarios fit a Greek border river where many dead bodies wash up.…

  • Frontex has air superiority

    Frontex has air superiority

    With its aerial surveillance, from space and soon possibly from the stratosphere, the EU border agency is becoming a quasi-secret service Twice in the past six years, the EU has drastically expanded Frontex’s powers. In 2016, the agency was allowed…