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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Nah the US will invade the wrong country instead

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Ugandan judge is closely related to the evangelical Christian movement in Uganda and went to elite missionary boarding schools for her education. She's likely one of those people that believe all Jews need to return to Israel for the second coming of Christ to happen, or some other end times rapture nonsense to do with Israel. Her arguments are all just fluff written after she already made up her mind on the decision.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Yeah stealth aircraft are more vulnerable to lower frequency radars, it's how the F-117 was shot down over Serbia. However that does usually reduce the rage of your radar, which is the opposite of what you want with regards to early warning radars.

I think honestly to get a proper shot of detecting the radio signals of the drones and potentially jamming them at source, or even launching missiles at the source, you'd need some kind of electronic warfare aircraft. That is an asset that Ukraine does not have and will not be getting anytime soon. I can't see the US giving Ukraine some old EA-6Bs with updated EW capabilities or anything like that. Jamming the drones by placing jammers near or around potential targets is not going to cut it long term. You need some form of signals intelligence. Ukraine's military realise this, even in the article you posted.

We also need more access to electronic intelligence from our allies, including data from assets that collect signals intelligence, and expanded production lines for our anti-drone EW systems within Ukraine and abroad,” he wrote in The Economist.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

You'd think Americans would at least remember Al Qaeda because of 9/11, but no just over a decade later the US is back to arming their affiliates to destabilise Syria and exert control over oil supplies.

Anyone remember that video of Al Nusra (officially part of Al Qaeda until 2016 even according to western sources) somewhere in Syria with US made Javelin anti tank missiles?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Highly manoeuvrable stealth drones are remarkably easy to make. A bunch of university students in Oklahoma made one in 2017.

The best way to stop them is probably through jamming or other electronic warfare.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

According to the Jordanian government, the military base attacked was not in Jordan. It was the Al-Tanf base in Syria.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Update:

A Jordanian government spokesman told state TV that the militants targeted a different base, outside Jordanian territory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-says-three-us-service-members-killed-drone-attack-us-forces-jordan-2024-01-28/

By AFP - Agence France Presse

Jordan said Sunday a drone attack that killed three US troops did not occur on its territory as Washington reported earlier, but at an army base in Syria near the border.

Government spokesman Muhannad Mubaidin said the "attack that targeted the American forces did not happen in Jordan... It targeted Al-Tanf base in Syria", where US forces are deployed as part of an international anti-jihadist coalition.

The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com.

https://www.barrons.com/news/jordan-says-deadly-attack-on-us-troops-occurred-in-syria-not-jordan-c2e58b51

[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Jordan said Sunday a drone attack that killed three US troops did not occur on its territory as Washington reported earlier, but at an army base in Syria near the border.

Government spokesman Muhannad Mubaidin said the "attack that targeted the American forces did not happen in Jordan... It targeted Al-Tanf base in Syria", where US forces are deployed as part of an international anti-jihadist coalition.

https://www.barrons.com/news/jordan-says-deadly-attack-on-us-troops-occurred-in-syria-not-jordan-c2e58b51

A spokesperson for Jordan’s government said that the attack took place in Syria, not on Jordanian soil.

Muhannad al-Mubaidin told Jordanian public broadcaster al-Mamlaka television that the attack had targeted the US al-Tanf base in Syria.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/01/28/Biden-says-attack-by-Iran-backed-militants-killed-three-US-troops-in-Jordan

A Jordanian government spokesman told state TV that the militants targeted a different base, outside Jordanian territory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-says-three-us-service-members-killed-drone-attack-us-forces-jordan-2024-01-28/

So apparently the US is lying about the location of the base attacked.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago (7 children)

brave fallen warriors

They are there to steal oil and work with Al Qaeda spin off groups...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

They know they're guilty, even by their own "rules based international order". So now it's time to disregard that order.

 
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