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Israeli Super Drone Stolen
kristy_christie writes "Globes Online reports that Steadicopter's prototype pilotless helicopter was stolen a few days after the completion of its test program and final test flights. Interesting to note that Steadicopter claims that their helicopter is unique and there is no other of its kind in the world."
what's the point.. in doing an automated chopper.. that relies on foreign nations good will to operate?
though, if the whole nation relies on that maybe it makes sense.
uups somebody knocking on the window, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGH. *NO CARRIER*
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Interestingly enough, the drooling fanatics are the most successful. Regardless of how you say it, the "drooling fanatics" are brave. They do believe in something, and it is very difficult to stop someone who is willing to die for his cause.
Especially when his foes are stupid Americans (or Israelis) who are unwilling to think about what they themselves have, what they themselves do not have, and what they themselves are fighting for.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
Since when has Israel been anything more than a regional power? Nobody calls France, Britain or Germany superpowers and their military capabilities are far superior.
Most likely reason for the theft would be espionage. There are quite a few governments who would pay to find out what the capabilities of the prototype are, including France, Russia, Iran, China. My guess is that the navigation electronics have already been removed and are on their way to Paris or Tehran by way of the diplomatic bag.
Question is why anyone would want a helicopter drone. Helicopters are pretty fragile and prone to attack from the ground. Thanks to the proliferation of the stinger missile (in which Israel played an active part) there are plenty of groups with the capability to take out helicopters.
Of course there might not be such a need for this type of weapon if Israel stopped being a 'jewish; state and instead became an 'equality' state. I opposed the South African appartheid 'white' state and I oppose the Israeli appartheid 'jewish' state for the same reason - any state that gives one group of citizens a privilleged position inevitably makes every other citizen second class.
I am fed up with the twisted logic that says that there is a right to a jewish state, then defines that state as one that has the right to erase all other citizens rights. Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is as disgusting as the US treatment of its native population and we see the same tactic. First the Indian's land was stolen by settlers by force, then when the Indians attempted to take matters into their own hands and respond with force this was used to 'justify' further confiscations.
We all know the game Sharon is playing and where it will lead.
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Israel currently receives over half of all US aid. If Israel can do without that aid I am sure that the US taxpayer would be only too happy to stop paying for it.
The fact is that the Israeli economy is in the tank and almost certain to stay there. The military budget is crippling, added to which there are huge subsidies to various religious factions that have to be bought off and for building 'settlements' on land confiscated from Palestinians.
Without US aid and US weapons the Israeli/Palestinian conflict would be a much more evenly balanced affair. Israeli hawks might actually start thinking of compromise rather than using coded references to 'transfer' - i.e. ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
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It is clear that Sharon is the causal nexus here, as he is fond of pointing out Arafat is irrelevant.
Sharon's strategy appear to be to deliberately provoke attacks in order to justify further provocations. He was personally responsible for starting the current round of violence with his forced entry into the Al Axir mosque.
Sharon is personally responsible for all the deaths since. He has brought nothing but death, fear and instability to Israel.
Every time there is a ceasefire with the militants, Sharon makes sure it ends quickly by ordering the airforce to murder some Palestinians.
List of countries on the Israeli side: USA List of countries on the PA side: Most/All of the Arab world.
Make that pretty much the entire world condeming Israel. At this point the only countries that support Israel in the UN are the US, Israel(!), Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.
If Israel wants any sympathy from me they can stop confiscating Palestinan land to build settlements. Israel signed an agreement to stop building settlements at Oslo, instead of keeping the agreement they doubled the number of houses.
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I didn't mention Judaism...
Israel needs to get the fuck out of Palestine and Sharon tried for his crimes against humanity, right after Milosevic is finished with. The state of Israel is living on STOLEN land and borrowed time. Israel is running out of friends, one serious rift with its American sponsors and it's history.
That was classic intercourse!
The article didn't even supply a picture. If they want the public to help them find this thing then they'd better start pumping out those "have you seen me?" ads on milk cartons. Otherwise, common folks everywhere won't know to report it when they see a seemingly ordinary helicopter next to a dumpster behind their favorite restaurant, or with the lions in their cage at the zoo, or in their teenager's room.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
So, you do not know the first thing about this do you? What a shock!
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