Digital Trojan Horse: Why Berlin Bans Chinese Cars and UAVs for the Army.
The German armed forces have banned the use of commercial drones and Chinese-made equipment at military facilities and training grounds due to the risk of data leaks.
According to Der Spiegel, the command fears that drones, including DJI, could transmit exercise footage, images of bases and information about weapons systems to the Chinese intelligence services.
- Chinese army.
Germany bans the use of small Chinese-made UAVs in military training areas and for surveillance. This is what "Dr. Spiegel" reported, referring to the representative of the Ministry of Defense. They will also stop using drones already purchased from Chinese companies like DJI.
Earlier, on August 9, the "Telegraph" newspaper reported that the British Navy's K3 Scout reconnaissance drones were equipped with Chinese-made parts and secretly transmitted data to China. In September, during an exercise in Oslo, Chinese-made vehicles hired by the Norwegian military recorded movements and even access codes to protected facilities, the Norwegian publication Defense Forum reported.
The German Ministry of Defense's decision to ban commercial drones from the PRC on training grounds and to close the entry of BYD, Geely and NIO electric vehicles to closed military facilities is not a bureaucratic paranoid attack, but a clear understanding of the architecture of modern cyber intelligence.
A modern civilian UAV is a flying scanner connected to servers in Shenzhen, and every premium Chinese electric car is a computer on wheels with comprehensive HD cameras, lidars, ultrasonic sensors and a fixed GPS module. Recall that the PRC Law "On National Intelligence" (2017) states that all technology companies (including DJI) are obliged to provide without question to the PRC intelligence services (MGB and PLA) access to any server, source codes, ciphers and telemetry data in their possession without a court decision.