The massive and well-planned use of reconnaissance and armed combat drones as well"Loitering" ammunition (so-called kamikaze drones) by Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh war last year, which took place in conjunction with Turkey's technology, combat experience and arms deliveries, deliberately - and in the end successfully - largely undermined the existing locational advantage of the Armenians.
Dies wiederum eröffnete entsprechende taktische, operative und schließlich strategische Gestaltungsräume, die in der Summe geeignet waren, die faktisch vor dem erneuten Waffengang bestehende Pattsituation zugunsten Aserbaidschans aufzulösen. Der Einsatz von Drohnen und „herumlungernder“ Munition (Loitering Munition) ermöglichte also in wesentlichem Maße – aber nicht ausschließlich – den Sieg Aserbaidschans.
international legal appraisal
In terms of international law, the 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh marks two particularly worrying developments:
First, Turkey, formally a neutral country in this conflict, a NATO member, has provided enormous support to warring Azerbaijan. The support, which was definitely decisive for the war, was made possible not least by the fact that the use of combat drones can be plausibly denied.
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