The Agenda: Defence / Global
The sky’s the limit
The lack of Sudan evacuations shows up nations, Norway takes the Arctic Council chair and the latest drone technology from Portugal.
War is an accelerator of technology. The Ukraine conflict is doing for drones what the 1991 Gulf War did for cruise missiles and the Second World War did for jet engines: it is ushering an emergent technology into the mainstream. Ukraine’s military is using Portuguese aerospace company Tekever’s kit for “recognition and intelligence missions”. “A year and a bit of war in Ukraine feels like 10 years of information,” Ricardo Mendes, Tekever’s ceo, tells monocle. “Previously you had large military drones but this war has shown that ordinary people…
