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Every Country Will Have Armed Drones Within Ten Years
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#12>What’s worse, say experts, it’s too late for the United States to do anything about it.
This is an extraordinary comment to make, when they have used drones more than anyone.
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#13>What’s worse, say experts, it’s too late for the United States to do anything about it. This is an extraordinary comment to make, when they have used drones more than anyone.
Yes the US had the most advanced and largest air fleet and I expect that to continue.
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#14Love this: “Once countries like China start exporting these, they’re going to be everywhere really quickly. Within the next 10 years, every country will have these,” Noel Sharkey How about you change "China" to "USA" - Basically the same right? What's so wrong about China having drones that he singles them out?
Because it's the common perception that USA would never sell their weapons to terrorists or third world countries where there is little to no control over them, but China lacks such a moral compass and will sell to anyone who is willing to pay. A completely wrong perception, but there it is.
I don't think it's the US's moral compass (more likely it's strategic compass) that's at work here.
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#15Love this: “Once countries like China start exporting these, they’re going to be everywhere really quickly. Within the next 10 years, every country will have these,” Noel Sharkey How about you change "China" to "USA" - Basically the same right? What's so wrong about China having drones that he singles them out?
Because it's the common perception that USA would never sell their weapons to terrorists or third world countries where there is little to no control over them, but China lacks such a moral compass and will sell to anyone who is willing to pay. A completely wrong perception, but there it is.
I agree - I guess my beef is that the USA have already "exported" them. Whether that's physically or just the idea of drones in general. Having said that, whoever comes up with an idea for a deadly product first and shows it to someone else is ultimately responsible, not always these so-called rogue nations.
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#16Love this: “Once countries like China start exporting these, they’re going to be everywhere really quickly. Within the next 10 years, every country will have these,” Noel Sharkey How about you change "China" to "USA" - Basically the same right? What's so wrong about China having drones that he singles them out?
Because it's the common perception that USA would never sell their weapons to terrorists or third world countries where there is little to no control over them, but China lacks such a moral compass and will sell to anyone who is willing to pay. A completely wrong perception, but there it is.
"such a moral compass" seriously?
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#17>What’s worse, say experts, it’s too late for the United States to do anything about it. This is an extraordinary comment to make, when they have used drones more than anyone.
And how would the USA stop other sovereign country's from building UAV's.
FFS drones are basicly RC planes not Nukes
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#18> Every country ... Only every country that is, wants to be or pretends to be a military power. Many (smaller) countries realized long ago that if they would end up at war with a much larger neighbour, their own military power would be of no use, and gave up on maintaining and building self-sufficient military machines. Instead, they focus on a certain aspect of military operations, and develop and maintain that segm…
Defensive versus attacking capabilities differ very strongly though. The quagmire defense is not soo expensive, I would think. For example, Switzerland has lots of basements and guns and gun training. That just sounds like such a lame headache to take and hold.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it's the common perception that USA would never sell their weapons to terrorists or third world countries where there is little to no control over them, but China lacks such a moral compass and will sell to anyone who is willing to pay. A completely wrong perception, but there it is.
"such a moral compass" seriously?
I thought the sarcasm would be obvious without the /s tag.
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#20I'm not surprised. How hard would it be for an individual to mount an RPG or Liberator firearm payload on a sub $1k drone that can be piloted 20km? I also expect drone regulations to increase considerably once attacks from such low-end drones start appearing.
Certainly not trivial, and certainly not for $1K. Perhaps in 10 years like the article suggests. However, you could probably take an off-the-shelf large R/C plane or helicopter and put a small explosive payload in it, then crash it into somewhere. Even that would be hard to do for under $1K, and range would be limited.
And if it was practicable and effective it would have been done already.
The IRA experimented with this decades ago and gave up and lest be honest the average al Qaeda terrorist cell would find using human suicide bombers much easier to use.