Ideas for Dealing with Drone Threats to U.S. & Allied Paratroopers
As NATO’s new Secretary General lauds airborne capabilities within NATO there are questions and answers about the survivability of airborne troops in the age of anti-personnel drones and increasing swarm capabilities. The issue requires intelligent planning, defense tech innovation, operational innovation, and OODA loop work. As early as 2015 some, such as scholar Marc R.…
Update: Turkey
In late August 2022, Haluk Bayraktar, the CEO of Bayraktar drone company Baykar, reportedly pledged that the company would not sell its drones to Russia “no matter how much money we are offered.” This, while expressly continuing to sell them to Kyiv in solidarity with Ukraine. Yet in March, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran…