Tag: Ministry of Defence
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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…
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Germany: Problems with another drone project
The LUNA is one of the most widely used drones in the Bundeswehr, and it is also the oldest. The contractor for a much more powerful successor system has now declared insolvency. In the past two weeks, the German Social…
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German government publishes roadmap on drone armament
The governing coalition of Christian and Social Democrats wants to introduce armed drones in a hurry before the Bundestag elections. More and more SPD members of parliament are now positioning themselves against it On 16 December, the Budget and Defence…
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German battle about arming drones: Unmanned cardboard characters
The German Social Democratic Party sets conditions for the procurement of Israeli armed drones, which are fulfilled anyway Now the Bundestag’s Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Eva Högl, has also expressed her views on the arming of Bundeswehr drones. The…