Trimble Navigation discontinues tech sales to Turkey's Baykar

PanARMENIAN.Net - Trimble Navigation - the Sunnyvale, CA-based producer of GPS Receivers discovered in Turkish Bayraktar drones - has responded to a wave of protests by affirming, in writing (Senior VP and General Counsel Jim Kirkland), that Trimble has "discontinued any further sales to Baykar."

Battlefield evidence confirms that Turkey's Bayraktar Drones - deployed by Azerbaijan against Armenian civilians in Artsakh - contain parts and technology from U.S. firms, U.S.-based affiliates of foreign firms, and firms located in NATO ally countries (Canada, UK, France, Germany, Austrian, and Netherlands).

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) is now working with many of those companies to have their shipments of drone tech to Turkey suspended.

Another American firm, Garmin, vowed to take steps to make sure that their GPS technology, which they said is not even designed or intended for use in drones, is not used "to kill innocent civilians in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh."

In a statement to ANCA the company said: It has been brought to Garmin’s attention that one of our products has been incorporated into drones that are being used in Bayraktar UAVs to kill innocent civilians in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). The Garmin product used in these drones is a commercial, non-military product that is widely available for purchase. It is not designed or intended for military use, and it is not even designed or intended for use in drones. We are investigating how our products ended up in these drones, and we will take appropriate action following our investigation to guard against our equipment being used again in this manner."

The Armenian side has said Nagorno-Karabakh troops have downed a dozen Bayraktar drones, but only three of them have crashed on Armenian soil.

Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and terrorist mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages.