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Japan Plans To Build Unmanned Fighter Jets (reuters.com)
Slashdot reader It's the tripnaut! quotes an article from Reuters:
Japan aims to develop a prototype drone fighter jet in two decades with private sector help in a technology strategy that focuses on weapons communications and lasers, according to a document seen by Reuters... The military technology plan calls for first developing an unmanned surveillance aircraft in the next decade and then an unmanned fighter jet 10 years later, the document showed...
The ministry will also allocate budget funds to acquire an upgraded version of the F-35 stealth fighter, made by U.S. company Lockheed Martin Corp...as tension rises in the East China Sea and North Korea steps up its missile threat, government officials with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The ministry will also allocate budget funds to acquire an upgraded version of the F-35 stealth fighter, made by U.S. company Lockheed Martin Corp...as tension rises in the East China Sea and North Korea steps up its missile threat, government officials with direct knowledge of the matter said.
When you are dealing with war. Being nice is not part of the game. You crush you enemies. You do not mess around. You crush them subjugate them and take their things. Then for the icing make sure they will not rise up again you kill their children.
War is ugly. Don't try to put a humanitarian spin on it.
It must also transform into a humanoid robot. After all, this is Japan we're talking about.
And why is that a business for the USA, with already more than 800 military bases in more than 100 countries the world over?
Um, let's see, most populous country, nuclear power, major economic force. It's pretty dumb to ignore them.
At least the Chinese haven't killed anybody yet, unlike the USA did with millions (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak, Lybia, to name a few countries), and by the way was the first country to deploy, totally unnecessary if you ask me as the Japanese were already surrendering, 2 A-bombs with devastating results for the civilian populations involved.
Come on now.
Wow, the Chinese haven't killed anybody yet? What have you been smoking? Even leaving aside the massive famines that Mao's policies resulted in, there's been plenty of executions for political repression, an invasion of Tibet, disputes with China, Pakistan, and even the USSR that have resulted in loss of life.
And whining about civilian deaths from A-Bombs? If you're going to stand on principle, stand against all bombing, whether it be the Blitz, Dresden, or whatever, don't pretend that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were special because of the methods involved. And like it or not, even if the US had refrained from that option, conventional bombing would have continued because the Japanese didn't understand the need to surrender. They fucked up badly since their previous war was with a power that wasn't seriously angry at all the fucked up shit the Axis powers were doing.