The Indian Navy has taken delivery of the first Rafnar unmanned aircraft. A few weeks ago, the Indian Navy took delivery of the world's first Rafnar unmanned aircraft built in the world.
This aircraft is in the inventory of our Coast Guard and Special Forces and is also used by Israel, Sweden etc.
The company is foreign and has invested in our country for the past four years with spectacular results.
According to the head of Rafnar's operations department, Mr Pantelis Stoubis, the systems carried by the drone are worth at least €500,000.
The aircraft moves for all types of missions both day and night, and is equipped with a number of special day and especially night cameras that drastically upgrade its efficiency.
It has an autonomy of 50 hours without refueling and stopping anywhere, while its construction is carried out exclusively in Greek shipyards.
This vessel has the capability to carry a multitude of weapon systems, prominently an autonomous automatic turret with a 12, 7 machine gun, a small anti-tank missile launching system, a bomb system, and carries a select group of submarine commandos anywhere with a cruising capability of up to 8 Beaufort.
What a drone means for Greece in the Aegean
Unmanned aerial vehicles (USVs) are a tremendously cost-effective solution for Greece, and they have great potential. They are operated by a ground station consisting of 2 to 3 people. This type of vessel undertakes patrol missions, reducing the risk of human casualties with tremendous results.
We are talking about the future in modern warfare of drones, which interface with airborne unmanned attack aircraft, frigates and other warships, patrolling large areas in the Aegean Sea.
However, the new conditions that the Turkish side is shaping with the mass production of unmanned attack craft, we have to give a response to the partial purchase from the US of a similar vessel, while activating our domestic war industry, which is hungry for defense programs.
Such vessels on the thousands of islands, micro-islands and islets in the Aegean, equipped with small missiles, hovering munitions and small surveillance drones, would pose a truly formidable threat to the Turkish Navy, and especially to the Marine Brigade in Focaea, Smyrna.
We are talking about the future of modern warfare by drones, which are interconnected with airborne unmanned attack aircraft, frigates and other warships, patrolling large areas in the Aegean Sea.
Our outposts on various islands will have a real effective guard, patrolling at distances of 60 km, while many incidents will be anticipated, especially in pursuits of smugglers that have cluttered the Greek Archipelago.
Such drones can neutralize group landings on steep and unseen coasts, strike targets on micro-islands, and generally cause panic in the enemy in any war scenario.
