Bleda Kurtdarcan, Barın Kayaoğlu
Security, Middle East
They’re already making a difference on the battlefield.
Plowshares into Flying Swords
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)—better known as drones—are great things. Their commercially available versions are really fun to play with, they shoot beautiful aerial videos, they help with environmental protection and scientific research, and they even deliver packages.
They also deliver bombs sometimes, as the Turkish armed forces (TSK) recently found out.
On 27 September, a ISIS-controlled drone dropped a bomb on Turkish soldiers in Syria’s Wuquf region, south of al-Rai, wounding three—one critically. The soldiers were part of the TSK-led “Operation Euphrates Shield,” which aims to …read more
Source: The National Interest
