Posted on 06/25/2014 4:17:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Commission on Tuesday (24 June) laid out plans on how to boost the EUs military and defense industries.
It wants to create a single market on defense, make it more profitable, and intensify and merge research with the civil sector. [ ]
The EUs 80 billion Horizon 2020 research program would be used to help fund dual-technology projects.
It also wants to develop a new program to explore the potential benefits of EU-funded research projects.
Among the ideas is to create drones capable of carrying out both civil and military operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
Why not contract the U.S. military industry, we don’t seem interested in using it here. Just think of how odumbo could take credit for saving or creating all those jobs. (sarc)
Why not contract the U.S. military industry, we don’t seem interested in using it here. Just think of how odumbo could take credit for saving or creating all those jobs. (sarc)
As long as they start defending themselves.
All hail the first invocation of Godwin’s law!
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