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2010-06-08 India-Pakistan

US plans manned 'drones' to avoid legal ramifications

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Posted by Fred 2010-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1 Blowing hot air. The MC-12 is being used because of availability problems with the drones plus they carry more complex sensor systems. Someone is taking unrelated events and connecting them with fantasy.

Posted by tipover 2010-06-08 00:37|| 2010-06-08 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 The UN's problem isn't with drones, it's with lack of accountability of CIA operatives manning the drones, or so they claim.

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Posted by phil_b 2010-06-08 01:19|| 2010-06-08 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Manned drone. Only a journalist could invent such idiocy.

Posted by gromky 2010-06-08 04:31|| 2010-06-08 04:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Article misses the point that most of the "manned drones" are RC-12s, no weapons. The RC-12/MC-12 is provided with "exportable sensors" to countries such as Iraq to which we don't want to export MQ-1Bs or MQ-9s. The aircraft made by the old E-Systems guys are a quick and clever way to provide persistent reconnaissance capability to second-tier allies.

Posted by rwv 2010-06-08 07:44|| 2010-06-08 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The UN's problem with the drones is that they are apparently effective.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-08 08:23|| 2010-06-08 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 the UN push against the use of drones is simply part of the greater Jihad with the soft euros and the neutral countries being used as the useful idiots

interestingly, because Obama is now President, the justification of our active defense is more likely to be effective in the UN

ha ha

Posted by lord garth 2010-06-08 08:35|| 2010-06-08 08:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I believe existing "international law" allows "whatever you can get away with"...

Posted by mojo 2010-06-08 11:27|| 2010-06-08 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone else wish the international busybodies would spend as much time condemning terrorism and jihad as it does fretting about what's done in defense against them?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-06-08 14:18|| 2010-06-08 14:18|| Front Page Top

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