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This tank thing isn't the only A grade BS the US spouts.
The US claims it won't provide Ukraine with drones, like Reapers, Predators and Gray Eagles, because it's worried about their precious tech secrets falling into Russian hands
Absolute 100% bullshit.
A US-made MQ-9 Reaper UAV came down over Libya, just outside the city of Benghazi, on August 23, 2022.
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Last June, the U.S. confirmed that a Reaper had been shot down over Yemen by Houthi rebels with an SA-6 surface-to-air missile.
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Reported Loss Of Two U.S. MQ-9 Reapers In Syria Raises Troubling Questions
The Gray Eagle is amongst the oldest and least capable of the drones the US has. It's the drone version of VW beatle VS the Covettes and Mustangs, and yet it's tech is too precious to risk on the battlefield? Er, what?
Gray Eagle:
It's not a secret, but the US has drones that are very big secrets, particularly their advanced stealth drones, like the RQ-170 Sentinel and RQ-180 and...?
Which do you think contains more sensitive secrets? The one they spent years hiding from the world that can fly at 50,000' or the 29,000' beatle?
Well in 2011, Iran spoofed the GPS coordinates being fed to an RQ-170, and got it to land at one of their airbases because it thought it was landing back at it's real base in Afghanistan. Whoops.
One of the main intelligence gathering assets the US has been using to monitor the situation in Ukraine is the $180 million, 60,000' RQ-4 Global Hawk, one of the most non-secret drones they have. An F-35 costs $78 million. It would be safe to say there is some secret stuff in one of these. Well the Iranians shot one down and recovered a lot of it: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-china-stole-top-secret-information-f-22-and-f-35-94201
So worrying about losing sensitive secrets when you have already lost far bigger one's to Iran, Russia, China - and I wouldn't be surprised if North Korea also, is a nonsense.
And it gets worse. The Chinese are known to have hacked US defence contractors and stole all the plans and data on the F-22 and F-35.
In some ways, the damage is already done. Beijing has gained reams of technical information on advanced U.S. weapons system such as the F-22 and F-35. “Adversaries will continue to use cyber operations to undermine U.S. military and commercial advantage by hacking into U.S. defense industry and commercial enterprises in pursuit of scientific, technical, and business information,” Coats stated. “Examples include theft of data on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, and the MV-22 Osprey
So we can't afford to send a VW beatle to Ukraine because we have all these incredible secrets to keep - the mind boggles at the scale of that nonsense.
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They certainly have form for that:
The Hawkeis are in testing mode and can often be seen on the streets of Bendigo, but Mr Myroshnychenko says he would like to see how they perform in the field.
"I believe it will really test them in Ukraine, provide valuable feedback and just make them better so that they can serve the Australian Defence Forces much more efficiently," Mr Myroshnychenko said.
Myroshnychenko is Ukrainian ambassador to Australia.
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Kurdish forces using Americans/western Anti tank weapons,it's a regular occurance.
But no Challenger tanks or Abrams were lost to other tanks, especially not Soviet/Russian tanks.
While they have chalked up a fair number of tanks destroyed mainly Russian/Soviet design's
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Sweden has announced that as aswell as sending a number of Archer mobile artillery systems, fantastic pieces of kit they will also be sending 50+ CV90 IFVs probably one of the best off the shelf infantry vehicles anywhere (been hoping they would be sent since week one ), along with more anti tank weapons .
CV90
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