Recently, news agencies shared a very important last minute information. News that a missile attack was carried out on an airport by drones, and there were no casualties. With this news, the eyes were turned to the threats of drones and the discussions about what kind of threats these technological tools pose to people started to be discussed on the screens over this example.
This attack on an airport where American soldiers are located in Erbil, one of the biggest cities of Iraq, was expressed as the airport where American soldiers were also present in all the news. Of course, the first reason for reporting in this way was that the attack was an attack on the assets of the American Soldiers in the country. The second and more underlying reason was probably that the American military presence was unable to prevent the drone attack, despite all available military technology.
While drones are confidently approaching to become the most important element of war environments with their ever-increasing capacities, the number of news that we see as drone attack is of course increasing. Both citizens and official authorities are concerned about the increase in terrorist attacks against military elements or using drones to cause civilian casualties.
Only in the first half of 2021, 6 of the 48 attacks against the 2,500 American soldiers currently in Iraq were carried out with unmanned aerial vehicles. The first and most important reason for the use of drones in attacks is the possibility of achieving this. To put it more clearly, these vehicles, which have the ability to easily overcome the measures of existing defense tools; These devices, which can be produced in extremely small sizes, have high mobility, very low cost and can be easily commanded, become the only easily accessible tool of all kinds of attacks, thanks to these features that can actually benefit people.
This drone attack in Erbil, which caused the airspace to be temporarily closed to flights, can cause serious costs despite its small size and extremely low cost. Even the costs of trade and transportation delays can be incredible. Drones have started to become a serious threat both with the possibility of causing loss of life and the possibility of causing economic losses as exemplified above. Therefore, defense investments in drones started to increase day by day.
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