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posted by janrinok on Thursday October 15 2015, @02:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the everyone-wants-one dept.

This article talks about the newest addition to the Iraqi Air Force, a drone. Surely this is unremarkable piece of equipment, we seen it before right? Except upon closer inspection (or by reading TFA, which is less likely) you quickly realize it is not in fact the U.S. made Predator drone, but a Chinese CH-4. The CH-4 is far from a cheap knock-off, but instead is claimed to be superior in every way to the U.S. drone. It sports such revolutionary additions as longer wing-span, bigger payload, and of course "upside down tail thingy."

Is this a story of every increasing proliferation of armed drones around the world, the willingness of some nations to export advance hardware anywhere, or simply a piece about military/industrial espionage? You be the judge.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by SanityCheck on Thursday October 15 2015, @03:49PM

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday October 15 2015, @03:49PM (#250037)

    Of course, I would say it's US that gets most of the credit, since Iraqi's didn't pay for all that on their own. Your Tax Dollars at Work.

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