UITE: Armenia needs high-tech armed forces

YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. The latest upsurge in violence in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, provoked by Azerbaijan, has shown that in spite of the heroic spirit Armenian armed forces have  a weak point which is the shortage of high-tech weapons, the executive director of the Union of Information Technologies of Armenia (UITE) Karen Vardanyan said today, when addressing the 16th congress of the organization.

‘Armenia needs a modern high-tech army because wars are won by the army that excels its enemy in terms of technical equipment, while poorly equipped army pays for it with lives," he said.

Vardanyan said Armenia has considerable IT potential and a significant portion of the local IT companies are implementing orders for foreign armies.

"We have about 15 thousand IT workers that produce goods for foreign military-industrial complexes," he said.

According to Vardanyan, it is necessary to establish links between the Armenian army and IT companies as ‘now Armenia's defense ministry uses only 0.5% of the Armenian IT sector potential.’
Vardanyan said that Armenia has technology that can block radio frequencies and affect the drones via different radiation intensities.

"We, as a society and taxpayers should form a public demand, which is to ask the question - why we were not able to generate an appropriate response to these challenges,' he said.

Vardanyan noted that the Armenian side did not expect Azerbaijan to use combat drones. He said the ministry of defense together with Armenian IT companies should jointly assess future threats.-0-

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17:15 04/07/2016