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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Debka: Iran's Military UAV Program Dies in Bombing
2010-08-17
Posted by:Water Modem

#4  TOPIX > NORTH KOREA FLEW DRONE OVER SENSITIVE SEA BORDER: SOUTH KOREA. Seoul = ROK is repor also analyzing the North's NEW MBT [improved
T-62 variant]???

ION TOPIX > NORTH KOREA REJECTS SOUTH'S UNIFICATION PROPOSAL [decadent US-led plot to weaken + attack DPRK].

* SAME > CHINA INCREASES MILITARY ADVANTAGE OVER TAIWAN: PENTAGON. USDOD Report argues that China desires to improve + increase its mil capabilities to strike beyond Taiwan, i.e. conduct efffec LR MilOps agz MOST OF JAPAN, PHILIPPINES + AS FAR AWAY AS GUAM.

DREAM > may explain, in part, why [Red-Star]PLAAF PLANES are flying oer + near FUTURE GUAM-WESTPAC.

* SAME > PENTAGON DEMANDS ON CHINESE MILITARY [Openness = Transparency] IMPOSSIBLE: WARN SCHOLARS | CHINA UNABLE TO SATISFY US ON MILITARY OPENNESS.

* WMF > [Global Times] US EXPERTS: US COULD SUFFER TOTAL MIL FAIL IN WAGING WAR AGZ CHINA IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS.

* CHINA + CPLA enjoy LOCAL SUPERIORITY.
* CHINA is in better STRATEGIC REGIONAL POSITION vee US-Allies.
* Potential US Allies are intimidated by China + thus are hesitant to induce CPLA military retaliation agz their Countries.
* China continues to make steady significant improvements to its LR Missle, Air, + Naval capabilities [force projection].

VERSUS

TOPIX > VARIOUS > CHINA STILL A "DEVELOPING COUNTRY" DESPITE ECON TAKEOVER FROM JAPAN [World #2 behind USA].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-17 23:55  

#3  Having once worked for an Iranian PHD (expatriate?) my hunch is a lot of their stuff if not most, doesn't work right. I fixed a software bug that had been causing the system to intermittently crash (which he had originally written) for months and which he kept insisting was a hardware problem, which resulted in great expense for replacement parts and labor, and it would crash during demos. I think he was pissed when I fixed it.
Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous   2010-08-17 17:40  

#2  "DEBKAfile Exclusive Report"

Which means they made it up. I have never seen a DEBKA "exclusive" turn out to be true yet.
Posted by: crosspatch   2010-08-17 15:28  

#1  The guy didn't have a deputy? Was he running the program from his basement?

Poetic justice would have been a kamikaze UAV crashing into his home....
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2010-08-17 08:15  

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