Posted on 10/03/2018 4:18:16 AM PDT by blueplum
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — High above Yemen’s rebel-held city of Hodeida, a drone controlled by Emirati forces hovered as an SUV carrying a top Shiite Houthi rebel official turned onto a small street and stopped, waiting for another vehicle in its convoy to catch up. Seconds later, the SUV exploded in flames, killing Saleh al-Samad, a top political figure. The drone that fired that missile in April was not one of the many American aircraft that have been buzzing across the skies of Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001. It was Chinese..
Across the Middle East, countries locked out of purchasing U.S.-made drones due to rules over excessive civilian casualties are being wooed by Chinese arms dealers, who are world’s main distributor of armed drones.….said Douglas Barrie, an airpower specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “I think the Chinese are far less liable to be swayed by concerns over civilian casualties,” ....
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so they're sitting at number 5 right now. How did Zero let that happen?
Stolen Technology
No technological advantage lasts forever.
When everybody has drones, we may come to regret the rules we put in place back when we controlled them all.
“Stolen Technology”
Sorry,the Chinese developed the technology, not us...
Being a bit more diplomatic, they acquired? the tech.
If you are out harvesting the back forty and you spot a crashed drone, it is kind of sort of, yours.
If you work in a factory making iPhones for a few years, you might learn a thing or two.
Now if you sneak into a farm field and dig up seed corn, that would be, Stolen Technology.
High above Yemen’s rebel-held city of Hodeida, a drone controlled by Emirati forces hovered as an SUV carrying a top Shiite Houthi rebel official turned onto a small street and stopped, waiting for another vehicle in its convoy to catch up. Seconds later, the SUV exploded in flames, killing Saleh al-Samad, a top political figure. The drone... was Chinese... said Douglas Barrie, an airpower specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “I think the Chinese are far less liable to be swayed by concerns over civilian casualties," ...
Thanks blueplum.
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