Technology Quarterly | Like smartphones, but lethal
The technology of seeing and shooting your enemies
War among the sensors poses new challenges, says Shashank Joshi
THE WAR which began when Azerbaijan attacked its neighbour Armenia on September 27th 2020 was a bloody affair, with over 7,000 lives lost. The previous war between the countries, which dragged on from 1988 to 1994, had left Armenian forces occupying much of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan. When, in 2020, the guns fell silent after just 44 days, Azerbaijan had taken back three-quarters of the territory those forces had held in and around the enclave—a victory as decisive as any in recent years.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “War among the sensors”