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The plan entails reassigning and retraining soldiers to guard cities and critical infrastructure against aerial threats.

Tallinn, Estonia-based Frankenburg says it aims to develop missile systems that are ten times cheaper and a hundred times faster to produce.

Production is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2026 and is envisioned to reach 10,000 units of Zoom and Linza drones per year later on.

The Turkish armed forces have previously had to neutralize unmanned surface vessels and drifting sea mines arriving from across the Black Sea.

The ramp-up is part of the country’s €50 million ($59 million) anti-drone plan in the wake of a recent surge in illegal drone overflights.

The drones were “neutralized,” daily Liberation reported, with the newspaper saying the usual procedure involves jamming.

“Obviously, in a dehumanized combat, there’s a sort of coldness behind it all that somewhat gives you goosebumps,” a French Army official predicted.