Ethiopia boosts drone production to fight rebels
Analysts say the fleet now numbers in the thousands, and officials have used cheaper domestic models to reduce ground combat risks.
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The Federal Army, under the authority of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is increasingly using these low-cost weapons, some of which are now being assembled in the national territory.
In a country that continues to heal civil war wounds and fears another outbreak, new Ethiopian marches stand between the Addis Ababa factories and the skies of the rebel territories, carrying vague deterrence messages to the interior and causing growing concern abroad.
Ethiopia boosts drone production to fight rebels
Turkish drones were decisive during the country's devastating civil war of 2020 to 2022, when the federal army used them to push back rebels from the northern Tigray region who had come within 200 kilometres (125 miles) of the capital, Addis Ababa. Only the federal army has military drones in the country of 130 million people, and they have been deployed repeatedly against insurgents operating in several regions. Increasingly, they are made do…
Ethiopia builds domestic drone fleet following decisive use of Turkish UAVs in civil war - Turkish Minute
Ethiopia has been manufacturing drones at two factories since last year and is now thought to possess a fleet numbering in the thousands, analysts say, after Turkish-made UAVs proved decisive for federal forces during the country’s devastating 2020–2022 civil war. The federal army used Turkish drones to push back rebels from the northern Tigray region […]
A fleet of thousands: Ethiopia boosts drone production to fight rebels
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