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The new Turkish-made Kargu-2 quadcopter drone can allegedly autonomously track and kill human targets on the basis of facial recognition and artificial intelligence—a big technological leap from.


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The Kargu-2 is a quadcopter drone developed by STM, a Turkish defense contractor. The drone features sensors and an electronic brain, and is designed to carry a weapons payload. In marketing.


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For example, since 2017, a government-owned manufacturer in Turkey (STM) has been selling the Kargu drone, which is the size of a dinner plate and carries 1 kilogram of explosive.


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The manufacturer of the Kargu-2, Defense Technologies and Trade (STM), told Turkish media last year that their drones are equipped with facial-recognition technology, allowing individual targets.


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A more serious concern for defense analysts and intelligence officers, however, is Turkey's Kargu-2 loitering munition. These drones weigh only 15 pounds and are designed to operate in swarms of 20 units. Each can be equipped with one of three warheads—a basic high-explosive fragmentation warhead, a shape-charge warhead, or a thermometric.


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A Kargu rotary-wing attack drone loitering munition system manufactured by the STM defense company of Turkey. A U.N. report says the weapons system was used in Libya in March 2020. Military-grade.


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The Kargu attack drone system contains a rotary-wing combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a ground control unit, and UAV recharging station components. The 7kg drone measures 600mm long, 600mm wide, and 430mm high. Kargu is equipped with indigenous national embedded hardware and software, 10x optical zoom, built-in artificial intelligence (AI.


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A recent UN report on Libya implies—but does not explicitly state—that a Turkish Kargu-2 drone was used to attack humans autonomously using the drone's artificial intelligence capabilities. I wrote about the event in the Bulletin, and the story went viral. The New York Times, NPR, Axios, Gizmodo, and a solid couple dozen more outlets in.


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KARGU®️ is a portable, rotary wing attack drone designed to provide tactical ISR and precision strike capabilies for ground troops. KARGU®️ is capable of performing fully autonomous navigation vis STM's unique flight control system. In addition, the platform is able to perform precision strike for low signature, beyond line of sight targets.


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The Kargu is a "loitering" drone that can use machine learning-based object classification to select and engage targets, with swarming capabilities in development to allow 20 drones to work together. The UN report calls the Kargu-2 a lethal autonomous weapon. It's maker, STM, touts the weapon's "anti-personnel" capabilities in a.


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The KARGU drone was developed in line with the needs of the security forces, and it was first introduced at IDEF 2017. The KARGU drone entered the TAF inventory in 2018. Providing the military with significant advantages on the battlefield, the KARGU drone is designed to provide tactical ISR and precision strike capabilities for ground troops.


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STM produced and developed the Kargu-2 domestic drone model in 2018. In 2019, 356 new generation kamikaze UAV Kargu-2's entered the inventory of the Turkish Armed Forces. The Kargu is a domestically produced, rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can be carried by a single soldier and can operate autonomously or with remote control.


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KARGU, the toughest bird in the skies is now much more powerful, rapid and agile with all new warhead options and improved design.


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Earlier in January 2020, the Turkish government had announced a purchase agreement for 356 x Kargu drones for the Turkish military. STM introduced the first generation Kargu in 2017 and the Turkish military began receiving small numbers of the improved Kargu-2 variant in 2019 which have been deployed along Turkey's border with Syria.


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The Kargu-2 was built by STM, a defense company based in Turkey that describes the weapon as "a rotary wing attack drone" that can be used autonomously or manually. The company did not respond.


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STM, the Turkish firm that manufactures the drones, states in a YouTube video that the Kargu drone can select targets autonomously with a "fire and forget" mode, implying that it can be.

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