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2010-07-22 Science & Technology

General Atomics Gets Approval to Sell Predators to Pakistan, Egypt

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Posted by 3dc 2010-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Huh. How else to keep India/Pakistan agitated.

Posted by Skidmark 2010-07-22 00:05|| 2010-07-22 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 See also WAFF > [Egypt] OIL, WATER, + TERRORISM DON'T MIX, espec per effects on international tourism.

* ION WAFF > [Torpedo + BM-capable]IRANIAN SUBMARINES TO BE UNVEILED IN AUGUST: MINISTER SAYS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-22 00:16|| 2010-07-22 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Guess this is what that latest AID package was for a couple days ago. I wish India would just go ahead and wipe this shithole off the face of the earth.

Posted by chris 2010-07-22 10:09|| 2010-07-22 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 What 3dc said....reminds me of the old Outer Limits intro:

"we control the vertical, we control the horizontal"

As long as the cameras send back intel and we control the flight path and the auto destruct...I'm good with it...

Posted by Warthog 2010-07-22 16:07|| 2010-07-22 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by DMFD 2010-07-22 18:50|| 2010-07-22 18:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Unless there have been drastic changes since GA applied for a DSP5, the Predator XP has been modified to be in the Missile Technology Control Regime Cat 2. Basically, that means there are range and payload limitations that keep this from being as big a deal as it seems.

Posted by rwv 2010-07-22 18:57|| 2010-07-22 18:57|| Front Page Top

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