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WE lost another drone?....
WE lost another drone?....
One was shot at..
Generally when this sort of stuff makes the press there means alot of spookie stuff is happening.
I'm thinking a nuclear facility is going to experience an "accident" soon.
WE lost another drone?....
One was shot at..
Generally when this sort of stuff makes the press there means alot of spookie stuff is happening.
I'm thinking a nuclear facility is going to experience an "accident" soon.
Liu Yuejin, director of the Public Security Ministry's anti-drug bureau, told the state-run Global Times newspaper Monday the plan called for bombing drug lord Naw Kham's mountain hideout in northeastern Burma using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to end a months-long manhunt. China's top drug tsar told the newspaper the drone strike option was eventually passed over to try to capture Naw Kham alive, which finally occurred last April in a joint Chinese-Laotian operation. But his comments reveal that China is weighing targeting killings seriously.
The Yilong and Xianglong, two Chinese drone models.
Beijing is becoming more willing to project power outside China, moving away from its previous policy of non-interference in international affairs, according to Peter Dutton, director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. "This is a new change. This is China behaving more actively in the international sphere to protect its interests beyond its borders than it had in the past," Dutton said. Previously, China would have insisted that such interventions "either [take place] in international waters, or have United Nations approval," he said.
Legal ambiguity
For years, the United States, Israel and Britain have dominated the global drone market, and the U.S. is known to have launched armed UAV strikes against foreign targets. But China has vastly improved its technology of late, unveiling large numbers of new drone models at recent air shows and modernizing its global navigation system, Beidou, to compete with the U.S. Global Positioning System as well as Russian and EU rivals.
The Obama administration has justified drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia by claiming those governments were "unwilling or unable to suppress the threat posed by the individual being targeted," according to a recently leaked Justice Department memo. The leaked "white paper" outlines legal arguments for using drone aircraft to target and kill American citizens abroad who are considered terrorists.
American University Law Professor Stephen Vladeck says Washington needs to be much more specific about its criteria for using armed UAVs, because China and other countries are paying close attention. "Part of the problem is that because the U.S. government is engaged in what seems like so many drone strikes, and has not exactly been forthcoming about the criteria it uses, it's possible for countries like China to point at the U.S. example and say, 'if they're doing it, so can we,'" Vladeck said.
Proliferation and demand
And people wonder way Iran acts so paranoid and wants nukes to defend its self...........
Are you just going to continue to drone on about this?Wait, there is a second drone stike? You mean in addition to the one on the First?
The presence of military bases does not equate to threatening. We have military bases surrounding France too, does that mean we are threatening France?
Iran and Iraq had a history of border disputes going back decades, and Ayatollah Khomeini calling on arabs to overthrow the Iraqi government as well as Iran's backing of terrorist attacks inside Iraq and Saddam's desire to be the most powerful arab state had more to do with the Iran/Iraq was than any American influence.You seriously read what you post?
The US supplied and encouraged Iraq to attack Iran. When the smoke cleared many Iranians lie dead from chemical weapon tech supplied by the United States.
THEN the US rolled Iraq.
Quit what? The United States is not at war with Iran.If you were the leader of Iran..what would you do? Quit?
Oh wait, none of you folks are going to say that I'm wrong?
Surprising.
