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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by LP -
Quote from: DJC – on
The USA expressed an interest in our Wedgetail but decided that their satellite system was better; it’s not!  Similarly, the USA determined that their high tech, expensive anti-aircraft missiles were the best anti-drone weapons; they’re not!
Actually, I think they have now ordered Wedgetail, but it's being called something else to try and put an American brand on it. The story is complicated, for example software was chucked away because it wasn't complaint to the US Military standard, but the software rights were sold to a US Developer only to be reloaded as complaint. How sticky are those fingers?

FWIW, I've just been to a bunch of manufacturing and technology conferences, to avoid Taco's tariffs nearly every foreign invention is being rebranded as American and they are setting up shell companies to commercialise the inventions on US territory. I sat through one talk that was a rehash of 20 year old technology, invented and developed here under investment from among others the US Air Force. Up until now it's been implemented pretty much everywhere except the US because the nepotism in the GOP and US government. Now the very same people who blocked the import have joined the consortium, and rebranded the technology as Texan to manufacturing(assemble) it over there.

It reminds me of the old trans-shipping days, when companies would move goods across borders, repack and then re-export to avoid tariffs. I bet that is all coming back because as far as I know it was never made illegal, back then it became uneconomical when free trade was set in place.

Think about some of that, in the context or the Iran war, who is fighting who, and where the oil that keeps flowing is really coming from, trans-shipped of course! Isn't this illegal when it's money? :o Don't they have a name for it, "cleaned oil"! ;D

People in terms of the west's general public can be so gullible, shareholders corporate or oligarch, in Israel and the USA, keep taking dividends, the GOP might as well write Iran a cheque it would be cheaper than wasting expensive weapons!
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Last post by Lods -
A post from Torrie Lewis.

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A bit weird to post this 1.5 years later, but today I got the news that I was the 1st clean runner across the line in the 200m U20 World championships in 2024.
So after the DQ of the runner who tested positive I can happily say I am the U20 200m World Champion

The original WC winner Adaejah Hodge was disqualified for testing positive to a banned substance.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
There’s clearly some crossover with the Taco thread; who else would sell merchandise from the recent dignified transfer of war dead?

Then there’s the wearing of the campaign baseball cap when civilians are supposed to be bare headed and the salute that only military personnel may make.  Stolen valour and grifting!

Perhaps we could change Thry’s clever thread title to “I ran so far away from the Epstein files” but the seagulls are already flocking with evil intent outside the local takeaway 🙄
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
It’s interesting that we supplied AMRAAMs to UAE along with the Wedgetail electronic warfare aircraft.

An AMRAAM costs $2.4M, a Shahed drone costs $20K.  That’s asymmetrical warfare.

Ukraine is leading the world in countering the Shahed drone threat with effective and relatively cheap weapons systems, including the Australian Slinger and Droneshield systems.

The USA expressed an interest in our Wedgetail but decided that their satellite system was better; it’s not!  Similarly, the USA determined that their high tech, expensive anti-aircraft missiles were the best anti-drone weapons; they’re not!