MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Anglo-French defence co-operation contract to develop unmanned combat air systems
A set of defence co-operation contracts, worth £120 million, for the early phase of a joint development of Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) between the UK and French governments have been awarded in Paris. A UCAS capability would, by the 2030’s, be able to undertake sustained surveillance, mark targets, gather intelligence, deter adversaries and carry out strikes in hostile territory. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLooks like the Argentine paranoia about a South Atlantic Death Star are about to be realised. ...
Nov 08th, 2014 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Maybe Isolde will be able to pilot drones over Buenos Aires just by using her boys' X-box?
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”vital importance to the UK and France, “which have the most capable and experienced armed forces in Europe and well-established defence industrial bases”.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quite a few people should take note of that comment. The UK is well on its way to having TWO super-carriers that the US Chief of Naval Operations seems to consider an important addition to western forces. France can't even manage a new carrier yet. How come France is too broke to follow the UKs example? Will there be a drone base on the Falklands? Drones 'loitering' over Buenos Aires? Stealthy and won't be seen. Internal weapons bays? What can the UK do? British forces operating out of French Guiana and or French Polynesia?
Further proof that paulcedron's facile, and oft repeated statement that the UK is a 'Third World Country' is the most ridiculous piece of tripe ever posted on the internet in the history of, well, the internet, I guess!
Nov 08th, 2014 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Go back to watching re runs of the Normandy beaches.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Put down that bottle of cheap port your senile enough without it.
It puts a whole new perspective on politicians droning on.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0for the future of the European combat air sector.”
Nov 08th, 2014 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0just a thought.//?
Anglo-French defence cooperation contract...means they will call the u.s. to save their asses, every time it is required.
Nov 09th, 2014 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paul #7,
Nov 09th, 2014 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0check out relative deaths to see how much 'saving their asses' has been done.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/11/daily-chart-4?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fremembrance
7 wishes he was American,
Nov 09th, 2014 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 08 GeoffWard2
Nov 09th, 2014 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfair! Don't confuse the poor lad with actual, real FACTS.
His whole world will crumble!
Best leave him in Narnia... or on The Yellow Brick Road... or with what ever lies his government has taught him this week.
pass the unicorn milk please.
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Nov 16th, 2014 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0“@2 Go back to watching re runs of the Normandy beaches.”
Instead, (hint hint) why don't you suggest 'Go back to (1982) to watch the dramatization of the SAS raid on Pebble Island,' or the news reports of the liberation of Goose Green by the Paras, the moment the Ghurkas found out that the Argentines had surrendered and their reaction to that?
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“Best leave him in Narnia... or on The Yellow Brick Road... or with what ever lies his government has taught him this week.”
Do INDEC have a publication he could read to give him 'the facts'?
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