Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Kurdistan

  • Missiles and sensors: German technology for the Turkish drone war

    Missiles and sensors: German technology for the Turkish drone war

    Turkey’s best-selling armed drone is equipped with cameras from German company Hensoldt, a spokesperson confirms. The device could guide missiles developed with German help to a target. The government in Berlin also has a stake in the defence company. Turkey…

  • Erdoğan son-in-law wants to equip world’s first drone carrier

    Erdoğan son-in-law wants to equip world’s first drone carrier

    After Turkey’s exclusion from the F35 programme, the fighter jets on the aircraft carrier “Anadolu” could be replaced by armed drones. Turkey could be the first country in the world to have an aircraft carrier with combat drones. The ship…

  • The Turkish Drone War over Nagorno-Karabakh: Gamechanger for more unmanned armament?

    The Turkish Drone War over Nagorno-Karabakh: Gamechanger for more unmanned armament?

    Video lecture 11 March at 7 pm (CET) The lecture in English was simultaneously translated into German. See it on YouTube in original language. The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in autumn 2020 is considered the first inter-state conflict won through…

  • After the war over Nagorno-Karabakh: British military flirts with Turkish-style armed drones

    After the war over Nagorno-Karabakh: British military flirts with Turkish-style armed drones

    Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles are smaller and much cheaper than their US counterparts. They can be procured in large numbers, so their loss in action is of little consequence. There is growing support in the UK for a new programme…

  • Drone power Turkey

    Drone power Turkey

    For many years, only the USA, Israel and Great Britain used armed drones. Now Turkey is ahead in the everyday use and sale of the weapons. Last week, the government in Ankara transferred an armed drone to Northern Cyprus. This…