Develop small, basic and efficient, but inexpensive drones.
This is the ambition of Airbus Military Air Systems, which draws one of the lessons from the war in Ukraine.
Squads of Bayraktar, a medium-altitude Turkish tactical drone carrying up to four laser-guided missiles capable of destroying armored vehicles, have demonstrated their effectiveness.
They helped Kiev halt the Russian advance on the capital and sink the flagship
Moskva
last year.
And this for a reasonable cost, around 5 million dollars per copy.
What arouse criticism against the Eurodrone program, a device called Male (“medium altitude and long endurance”), without a pilot, which can be armed, whose budget reaches 7.1 billion euros for 60 copies, ordered by four countries: Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Hybrid gear
“The Bayraktar and the Eurodrone do not play in the same category and do not perform the same type of missions: from tactics to kamikaze flights…
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