Turkey buys 500 kamikaze murder drones with facial recognition

Turkish army to receive 500 swarming drones with facial recognition feature: report

By Turkish Minute – June 19,- shared with thanks. illustrations, video and comment added.

The Turkish Armed Forces will receive 500 tactical Kargu-2 kamikaze drones with facial recognition feature, Forbes reported, citing local media.

The drones, manufactured by Defense Technologies Engineering (STM), have a high degree of onboard intelligence, and the forthcoming addition of swarming capability takes them to a new level.

STM CEO Murat İkinci told the Hürriyet newspaper that Kargu has facial recognition, suggesting it can seek out and murder specific people. It is described as being engineered for “anti-terror and asymmetric warfare scenarios.”

comment: Turkey’s latest ongoing illegal invasion and occupation of Rojava in NE Syria features heavy use of drone attacks against the local population who are forced to flee, leaving their homes, lands and property to be looted and occupied by the

Turkish paid jihadi mercenaries. Drone warfare in Syria avoids the danger of using Turkish NATO jets in airspace controlled by the US or Syrian air-defense systems, and has been extended to repeatedly attack refugee camps of the fleeing Kurdish civilians, especially the evicted population of occupied Afrin canton now in Shebha. Having learned to kill, destroy and terrorize with drones Turkey has now deployed them massively in Libya, helping to defeat Haftar’s forces, in exchange for illegal oil and gas concessions in the Med.comment

The Kargu-2 is a 15-pound multicopter with a top speed of about 90 mph and an endurance of half an hour. In standard mode it is controlled directly by an operator from up to six miles away; when a target is spotted the drone locks on to it and dives in, murdering or destroying it with an explosive charge.

The concept is similar to the Switchblade loitering munition used by US Special Forces, although the Kargu-2 has a much bigger warhead.

Kargu-2’s three-pound warhead comes in three varieties, an explosive/fragmentation version for killing people and destroying light vehicles, a thermobaric version to destroy buildings and bunkers and a shaped charge for heavy armor. Unlike Switchblade, which is strictly one use only, Kargu-2 can return safely to the operator for re-use if no target is found.

The drone features LIDAR, daylight camera and infra-red imaging. While it can be controlled directly it is a highly autonomous AI robot, able to fly a route and use deep learning algorithms to locate, track and identify targets without human assistance.

The Turkish military previously received small batches of Kargu-2, reportedly deployed against people defending their homes in Syria.

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