Who is going to be attacking Britain any time soon where they need more military toys to play around with?
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British stealth drone to undergo first test flight
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Who is going to be attacking Britain any time soon where they need more military toys to play around with?
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
Why does it look so creepy?
ElectricBlue187
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Drones are not a defensive weapon. They are for killing middle eastern people
ConfusingJazz
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Why does it look so creepy?
Because it's a robot assassin.
We're in the future, no one told you?
Western intervention in non-western countries largely revolves around trying to maintain hegemony over particular areas for the purposes of protecting various resources and goals that are beneficial to capitalism, i.e. oil etc. For example, do you really think the West hates Iran because of bad words about Israel? No, it hates Iran because Iran is an independent power that, if it succeeds in establishing itself as a serious anti-western power in the region, messes up the smooth relations with the ruling classes that the West currently has in the Middle East. This used to be much more explicit during the Cold War when we overthrew Mossadegh in favor of our crony the Shah; these days it's all covered up with the veneer of "fighting terrorism!!!"
When it becomes openly obvious that the West doesn't care about democracy in the Middle East, our leaders openly support dictators for the sake of "regional stability", hence support for Mubarak or the Saudis or the rulers of Bahrain, etc. All for the purpose of maintaining the flow of our capitalist economy.
All those austerity savings gotta go somewhere.
Meus Renaissance
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Military combat pilots are a dying breed. Possibly the last generation
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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looks like the RQ-170 Sentinel
PJV3
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510112
That's more impressive, a British space shuttle.
That's more impressive, a British space shuttle.
Byakuya769
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God save the queen
Sounds awesome. We'll definitely use this to take back the United States
The British are coming..
to get their asses beat!
CyclopsRock
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That's very cool. Not just because it's British, either.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Do you find putting body armor on soldiers to be similarly weird?
Ravensmash
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maybe if everyone had drones then we'd be getting somewhere.
heck, wars could just be a physical video game.
Body armor isn't a weapon though. Drones as they are now, have a high civilian casualty rate. Especially with double taps. Reform is on the way I'm sure, but I value life. So yes, 1 pilots life vs the target + collateral damage. Tis weird.
Thats what this is all going to turn into. We will save our soldiers lives, but kill so many others. The escalation is going to be beautiful. I just wanna get into building them so I can make some money. If ya cant beat em, join em.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I think the history of manned aerial bombing reveals that this method of attack is far more indiscriminate than unmanned drones. Even NATO bombing during the Kosovo War, which was far from the bloodiest conflict of the 20th century, resulted in about 500 civilian deaths.
CrunchyFrog
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Exactly what I thought. Kinda ominous considering the shitstorm over drones as of late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w
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