History especially in the last century it was not a choice really and that said germany is one of the worlds leading weapons exporters today are made in germany we put weapons in the crosshairs personally i dont have any problem with weapons i grew up holding one in my hand three times a week when i was five years old my dad took me to his fencing club and fencing still is a part of my life today its a sport that teaches you a lot about humility and patience about aggression and risk and respect my colleague on the other hand had never touched a weapon in her life but coming from a german japanese family she was wandering with a heritage from two famously belligerent countries shouldnt that be a fascination with weapons in had lot and since keogh is who she is she had to go and find out. The never had anything to do with weapons i never held a real one in my hand and ive never wanted to i grew up in germany and in japan in both countries people are fascinated by them so today i wanted to find out whether that fascination with gripped me too and that is why im at this shooting range. I always thought you need a firearms license to shoot with live ammunition here in germany but actually you can just book a shooting event like this one offered by mike fleeman young going in a. Hundred fifty euros and if you safety instructions later im ready to go. My other ancestors the japanese are a bit more careful when it comes to handling weapons in this case thats the japanese cut on the summer i sawed usually they dont use chopped cotton us but theyre making an exception for me today. My teacher is me. He shows me idol the japanese art of handling the sword the dame is to use the cutter not to kill an imaginary opponent thus or so years ago career you first aim for the center of the body. And then you swing out of the one where the words are. On the shooting range the opponent is the skeet youre missing there and if we have to shoot and destroy the orange skeet in midflight. Him through a vision. Well the result. Is that your god it. Open it first then celebrate everyone weirdly its a lot of fun especially when you hit it it was a good feeling its. Well just. One shot at the skeet costs seventy five cents. The cheapest shotguns cost around a thousand euros an expensive pastime and it can be dangerous as well. What happens if i were hit. How far away are you. But what about if youre this close to me you have a big hole. At the machine. Theres three holes. The one in the right. A shot from one of the men over there are standing by mistake because its crazy that you can just come here and start shooting i didnt even have to sign anything is that a good thing if people are fascinated with weapons because they dont really know them because you see weapons in movies in the news but nobody really has any connection to them weapons or to boo topic in germany. Japanese its eaten a little differently most japanese have never held a real cut and im their hands but so many of the sword is still a proud part of the identity. Thats about for me the sword isnt really a weapon. Its a work of art. Thats why im so fascinated by them and why i make them myself. When i talk about it in germany i always say a sword costs as much as a mercedes benz. You can get a sword for three thousand euros but for a good one youll definitely have to pay more. Old swords i specially expensive and often collectors items. Took almost have to remember five things at once and also look good at the same time and you can forget that youre dealing with a shop sword that could hurt you especially when i put it back in im rather nervous. Because if you dont pay attention. Youve just been down then it fell out. Isnt deep you know i dont think so because thank goodness the woman tim burton given whether youre dealing with a german shotgun or with a japanese sword you really have to be careful and be very focused on this in that its a bit more responsibility than i like to assume but i can understand why people are fascinated by them they demand respect which they deserve. It. Proving that a good reporter goes where it really hurts now weapons are a big business and i mean really big the Global Market is worth hundreds of billions of dollars each year and it seems Everyone Wants a piece of that pie but it is it really ok to profit from products that bring so much misery to so many people. And the g thirty six. Of the best known german made weapons theyve been on the market for decades is there anything more recent out there if never seen a commercial for weapons made in. A fiat its not exactly a lifes a product and its quite hard to find out what apps manufacturers are actually working on i contacted quite a few and tried to get an interview but no one was willing to talk to me apart from those guys. I meant the federation of the German Security and Defense Industry managing director Christopher Dean represent some eighty german weapons manufacturers why are they so tightlipped. Its because many of the products they make are subject to confidentiality agreements we dont want possible enemies to know what certain devices can do and what they cant do. This isnt an ordinary industry were producing devices that are ultimately intended for use by the state thats what makes them different from other products. How do people respond when you say you work for the weapons industry. Never say that i work for the weapons industry i work for the Defense Industry which in essence fulfills germanys constitutional mandate which is guaranteeing our security that security isnt possible without Adequate Technology a military thats made up of people fighting only with their hands cant fulfill that mandate. Of German Companies dont just make weapons for German Military and police they also say that products abroad more than six billion euros worth in two thousand and seventeen and thats just a fraction of the exports attributable to the wifes one hundred largest weapons manufacturers. When you look at these numbers why isnt germany the Global Leader in weapons exports minus. We are subject to extremely strict laws the german more weapons control that states very clearly that the government has Decision Making authority and they cant approve exports to a client country when theres a risk that theyll be used for activities that are a threat to peace. In the First Six Months of two thousand and eighteen by far the largest shelf weapons soared by german manufacturers went to algeria over six hundred forty two Million Euros worth of the next most important customer was the u. S. In third place saudi arabia despite its record on human rights export criteria on. Whether to cooperate with such countries in the sphere of weapon sales is a very complex decision it often requires a lot of information that we as an industry have no access to only governments can make those decisions responsibly. So the German Government decides where the manufacturer is concerned and its getting stricter since two thousand five hundred german weapons exports have fallen fourteen percent compared to the preceding four years while i doubt countries expand at say its what are the deciding factors for remaining competitive. Product has to be on the same level or better than those used by your possible enemies otherwise they wont have the same deterrent effect you might say that the weapons our industry produces arent really intended for use essential e theyre supposed to have a deterrence and defense of effect. So what would you say are the weapons of the future. Everything thats unmanned for example for anything thats networked or that can be networked with other equipment. Then of course theres the realm of Artificial Intelligence systems that incorporate machine learning. Those are things that arent really in use yet but a lot of research is being done on it before. I feel that germanys weapons industry prefers to call it safe the Defense Industry and that it takes no responsibility for its weapons. Modern weapon systems are designed to minimize risk for the operator while promising maximum effects drones for example are stealth killing machines their pilots said some thousands of miles away from the actual battlefield and drones can also cause chaos in civilian life just recently a drone sighting at Londons Gatwick airport grounded flights for days so how can we protect aviation against this new threat a startup the german city of costal might have a not so. Theyre easily available and a low end quote copter with a camera can be had for one hundred euros. Many mother if someone wants to do something terrible a drone is a good way to do a lot of damage. Or you can attach an explosive to a drone or cameras for industrial espionage all of those are threats. And founded a company that invented a drone trap its like an alarm system to protect against drones it is a sensors to detect potential airborne threats by gathering information from radio frequency scanners and cameras. As a conductor the troops in the client has a birds eye view of their installation here are two more sensors whenever anyone activates a Remote Control you see the pilots hear savoyard as. If the threat is detected an alarm goes on the client has time to respond say by intercepting the drone customers include prisons to use the system to prevent illegal drug and weapons deliveries to inmates. De drone launched twenty fourteen its headquarters has since been moved to the u. S. The firms largest market it has customers all over the world. For. Ten years ago there were no drones and today new ones are hitting the market all the time and they keep changing which is a problem if you want to detect cars. For example you know they always have four wheels are roughly similar in visual terms thats not the case with drones. Some one million drones have already been sold in germany alone so demand for systems to protect against them continues to rise the found Hope Institute is also conducting research on intelligent Defense Systems including for possible use against contact. You can imagine of course that larger drones might be used for purposes that have nothing to do with recreation which they might be equipped with explosives and sent to places where the enemy the attacker thinks they could do the most damage. And its teen specialize in identifying aerial vehicles at two oclock or away. With drones growing increasingly sophisticated its a real challenge. Drones are getting faster they can fly for longer periods and theyre getting more intelligence that intelligence is a worry. The more intelligent the draw the more we have to think about ways to figure out what theyre doing and how to counteract that. More and more customers need drone Protection Services including kind manufactures celebrities and. They need to stay a step ahead of an attack so discretion is key. In our industry you usually cant promise one hundred Percent Security and we dont our system is similar to a virus scanner we use databases and compare the drones to them if an entirely new drone crops up it would be like a new virus it might slip through the first time but after that well catch it. Whether its commercial drones military models or self organizing swarm. The threat posed by drones will only continue to grow and so will the market for intelligent Defense Systems. They might not like to admit it but if theres one thing that arms manufacturers like best its war so lets take a look at the Economic Issues that are very often at the center of any conflict because its not only gun makers who profit from war. War a ruthless business. In twenty seventeen a record one point seven three nine trillion dollars were spent worldwide on arms weapons for wars that bring death suffering and destruction. But whether we like it or not war also stood economic growth. Factory production. The First World War saw that appointment of eight hundred fifty million shells and grenades thousands of tanks aircraft submarines and poison gas was the first global conflict of the industrialized age engineers were under pressure to develop new and enhanced technologies to defeat the enemy. Another horrifying fact occupying other countries can be lucrative. Nazi germany is a case in point of the outbreak of the Second World War the economy was running on debt. Subsequent territorial expansion enabled the nazis to seize Raw Materials to just call and requisition factories to pay for the war. New markets for companies in two thousand and three the u. S. And allied forces launched an attack on iraq claiming it had weapons of mass destruction these were never actually found but in subsequent years u. S. Companies signed Lucrative Oil and security contracts and sold weapons not just to iraq but also to other gulf states. More engineers more war during the thirty years war fourteen europe in the seventeenth century kings and princes made mercenary armies fund and feed themselves they would plunder villages and then pulling them to the ground just screaming up the resources of the territories they occupied the war feeds itself was the operative principle. So is war really an engine of growth. Studies show that wars can spur long term growth once they finish. Financial support programs can help defeated nations get back on their feet and pronto redirection as illustrated by west germanys postwar economic miracle. But. Nevertheless the fact remains in protracted wars in particular no side stands to win the human cost death devastation hunger and hardship far outweighs any financial profit. The wars of the future are likely to play out in cyberspace and the weapons will not be made of steel and lead but of bits and bytes since everything runs on computers these days the equation is very simple shut down the enemys computers and win the war and that war is already raging unseen by you and me the digital battlefields are soaked in virtual blood already. How steep is the rise in Cyber Attacks. Very steep attacks on ransomware increase by around three hundred fifty percent a year and on the much hyped internet of things its a whopping six hundred percent. Where did the hackers come from in twenty seventeen twenty percent came from china eleven percent from the u. S. And six percent from russia. Where the victims two thirds of companies with fewer than one thousand staff and experts say that in the next two years attacks on medical technology are likely to quadruple. How much economic damage does it cause. Its estimated that from twenty twenty one onwards it will exceed five trillion euros a year and stolen company data accounts for forty three percent of that damage. Estonia as a country especially vulnerable to Cyber Attacks just about every sector of the economy operates online from health to education to Financial Transactions but at stoneys have discovered the most effective weapon against cyber criminals is not fire walls or encryption its a more offline thing use a training. Digital time a computer is the weapon of choice for how they can steal data and disrupt services. I can actually see a fighter jet or a tank coming towards you where you can see the cyberattack coming towards you can tell its already happened. In two thousand and seven there was a large cyber attack against dystonia and there was also the first cyber attack in the world and the world against nation. Government Services Unavailable business is estimated to have lost millions of years the state set up a site defense unit with volunteers and that was the point. Were not only me but many estonians suddenly realized the importance of Cyber Defense. Is certainly regained its independence from the soviet union in one nine hundred ninety one Digital Products and services gave the tiny country a chance to rebuild its economy. Today around ninety nine percent of all Government Services that can be found online but increased reliance on the internet makes governments and businesses like banks highly vulnerable to Cyber Attacks. The Cyber Defense unit is a network of a few hundred volunteers among them tech minded experts who can Configure Networks and file. Others look to technical aspects of drones yet others in the team train the weakest link in the cyber chain the uses themselves. To explain them to show them to help to understand some cheap security measures must be taken by making it a. Digital photos you are holding in your phone. And thats what some businesses are focusing on this company designs exercises to train their clients and provides a case by case risk analysis this individual needs to work on email security. Hes out of the low risk green zone and uncomfortably close to the red which indicates high risk. But as a result. His or her use of contacts in cyberspace is being mapped and most importantly the risky moments of being out on. The back row know the philosophy about a company that if you cation is key in cybersecurity and the best way to educate people is through training and exercises and we believe that Cyber Security through visualization has to be demystified for people who do not have a technical background but for the unit its not just about obvious attacks in our Data Driven Society fake news the misinformation can also be powerful weapons and i mean might be for ever trying to influence peoples mind or. Services or all wrong electronic. Services necessary for us to. Cyber attacks will not only increase they will also involve some secrets of control if we look at the top across then we start to tell about it even. If its so sticky for quarter similar. Operation must be present also for the Cyber Security weve all learned checked both directions before crossing the street but digital dangers can be much less obvious. But war also inspires art from rubens to because so artists are made battles in mortal everyday things are inspired by military conflict as well the humble trench coat for example a garment that many of you might have in your closet has its origin in the trenches of world war one. The classic. Wisdom of the ages lots of it still very relevant today heres a good quote from the greek philosopher epictetus and its two thousand years old he said know who you are first then adorn yourself accordingly. I could have said that but i wouldve added one more thing take a look out of the window too because it might be raining and if its raining another classic comes into play. The trenchcoat. There are many variations on the classic trench these days like this one slim and single breasted for example the same goes of course navy well thats all well and good but this is the original design double breasted with ten buttons lets have a look at the details these metal rings on the belt for example the popular mates would have us believe that thats of course we were born you hand grenades. Because you see the trench coat was developed for british officers fighting in the trenches of world war one it was a raincoat the original was and still is made from tough water with poland gathered to. Have a look at this little detail thats called the flag you can close it to prevent rain from seeping in when firing your right all these structures to close them tight. No water can seep in when spy on the enemy with your but nothings. Grain is on the way good that i came prepared with the most classic the sets. Thats all for me in the team of a peaceful. Way. To. 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