The German military is so cumbersome and poorly prepared for a drone-based offensive that it would lose a hypothetical conflict with a smaller but nimbler force such as Azerbaijan’s, according to one of its strategy experts.
Its large but slow battle groups, supported by unwieldy air defences and outdated electronic warfare capabilities, would be sitting ducks for swarms of enemy drones, the officer warned.
The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia last autumn, in which Azerbaijani drones helped to wipe out more than 200 pieces of armour and artillery systems, unsettled western analysts. In 44 days of fighting over NagornoKarabakh, Azerbaijan’s fleet of largely Turkish-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were instrumental to the country’s territorial gains before a Russian-brokered ceasefire.
Azerbaijan used its drones to
