MQ-9 Reaper UAV
Politico: Drone maker offers to sell 2 Reapers to Ukraine for $1
Although, Kyiv would be on the hook for shipping and maintenance costs.
California-based drone maker General Atomics has offered to send two Reaper drones to Ukraine for $1 and is waiting for the U.S. government’s approval, the company’s CEO confirmed Wednesday.
The announcement from the firm’s CEO late on Wednesday comes after months of talks between Kyiv, the Biden administration and the company over providing Ukraine with the long-duration drones operated by the U.S. Air Force.
But the issue has remained in limbo due to concerns over transferring sensitive technologies to Ukraine.
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Update #1: U.S. firm reportedly offers Ukraine 2 Reaper drones for $1, plus $10 million in shipping and handling -- The Week
Update #2: US Offers MQ-9 Reaper Drones To Ukraine! General Atomics Ready To Sell ‘Cutting Edge’ UAVs For $1 — WSJ -- EurAsian Times
WNU Editor: The range of the MQ-9 Reaper drone is 1,850km (link here), well within range of launching a strike against the Kremlin itself.
16 comments:
Hopefully would not be under direct control of Ukrainians.
Hopefully would be detected via radar or intelligence.
I mean... let's see what happens.
So is it General Atomics or The Executive Branch who decides what countries get Reaper drones?
/we could use about 6 of those on the US southern border.
These should be relatively easy for the Russians to shoot down
Not at all
Big Baby said: "Our drones can be within range of your capital, but you drones cannot be within range of our capital, you big baby"
Where have you ever heard of an aggressor crying so much that warfare be asymmetrical or else?
interesting strategy. in this situation, it is not the US government giving the Ukies the ability to strike the leadership of Russia but a private company. Will we see more of this? I would like to see the dark money used to reimburse this company.
When Russia accuses, I can see Biden shrugging and saying, "wasn't me." you know, plausible deniability and all.
it's an easy target for Russian air defense or fighters. Ironically the ancient Soviet Tu-141 drone is more effective because it is supersonic
It is not an interesting strategy, but a copied strategy.
Colonial pipeline hack claimed by Russian group Darkside
Did or could Darkside have really operated without the FSB, GRU knowing and giving their blessing? Will Ron tell me that Darkside operated free form Russian government control?
There is dark money in Russia too. It would educate people to learn of how Soviet leaders worked with Russian Mafia pre-1991. I have read that it happened, but I do not know the extent, so I need some further educating myself.
Governments do work with the underworld and at times it is necessary. You go to war with the social milieu you have not the utopian one you would wish for.
Project Underworld: The U.S. Navy’s Secret Pact with the Mafia
You could wargame it out and see how many more losses the US and Britain would have took in the Battle of the Atlantic if they had not enlisted the Mafia. Maybe the persecution of the Mafia in the 1950s and 1960s was the result the federal governement learning the power that the Mafia actually had. That is they worked with the Mafia and then after the NAZIs were defeated turned on the Mafia.
After a successful hack did Darkside kick money upstairs like soldier does to his capo?
Joe Biden and his puppet master act like men and women. I would rather them be forthright, lay down the law and make the obligations for weapons and training. Barring that, this is as good as it gets.
"DarkSide was responsible for the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline that caused shortages of gasoline and panic buying on the East Coast of the U.S. this week.
The U.S.-based company is a technology services reseller based in Illinois. DarkSide claims to have stolen more than 600 gigabytes of sensitive information, including passwords, financial information, HR information and employee passports from it."
And the FSB did not want a cop y of the passports passwords and HR information?
Yeah right.
Russia was at war with America back in 2021, whether Putin or Bidumb admit it.
These drones are very sophisticated pieces of equipment. Against a bunch of Afghani peasants without any type of ADA radar or coordination they did extremely well. Against Russian ADA systems, we shall see.
Anyway it would be nice if General Atomics was just as generous to their home country. But I guess not.
Anyway as long as GA has the license to sell to the Ukies, they can do what they want.
Fazzy do you have any facts to back up your statement that this aircraft cannot be shot down easily?
Reasonable man consensus is, that these drones are not fast and fairly large. Therefore, should be easy to find and therefore destroy.
Your thoughts Fazzy?
I see Ukraine as being a hostile environment of the drones, but it does not preclude them from being used and whipping their weight in gold.
Just because the Russians stole ADA radar from someone and kind of know how to use it, doesn't mean that drones cannot be used.
Your assumptions are two part.
A use of drones is not the issue,
The second one is you did not address the main point.
Fuzzy infers that these things will not be harmed by ADA.
I asked him to clarify why not, when they fly slow and are farily large without any stealth tech.
I am not fazzy and unfortunately you are one of the smarter ones. You cannot infer from what I said that ADA could not harm these drones. Your point was addressed but smart guy chose not to acknowledge it,
From poster 11:38 to poster 11:59
Thank You and God bless
why bless your heart
That is not really plausibly deniable.
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