Moscow’s highly effective usage of Iranian drone technology in Ukraine has sparked a fierce backlash from Washington and its NATO allies. However, the criticism of Tehran for supplying drones, and in the future possibly ballistic missiles to Russia, reflects astounding Western hypocrisy. Calls for everything from a probe into Iranian drone usage in Ukraine to Read More…
Tag: Drones
Iran Releases Video Of Drone-Downing, Trump Warns “You’ll Soon Find Out” If US Will Attack
Update 4 (1615ET): The Iranian government has released alleged video of their military shooting down the unmanned US drone, also showing the alleged path of the drone, which they claim had entered their airspace (US maintains the drone remained in international waters)… #BREAKING: Iran releases video of downing RQ-4A pic.twitter.com/3YTHJUAIyA — Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) June Read More…
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Obtained 100 UAVs From Turkey To Use Them In Chemical Attacks: SANA
The Syrian state-run news agency SANA reports (source): Jabhat al-Nusra [SF: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham] terrorist organization has obtained 100 drones through one of the Turkish merchants with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks with chemical substances on civilians and positions of the Syrian Arab Army from Idleb. In a report published on Monday, Russian Sputnik Agency Read More…
Russia Accuses US Of Coordinating Drone Attack On Russian Military Base In Syria
Over the past year Russia’s chief military base in Syria, Khmeimim Air Base near Latakia (alternately Hmeimim), has come under sporadic waves of attack by small armed drones, which have appeared increasingly sophisticated. Those attacks were assumed to have been the work of jihadists operating out of Idlib, such as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, who launched the small makeshift Read More…
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You Anymore
OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? OK, no problem. You know that old anti-war cliché about “Suppose They Gave A War And No One Came“? Well that slogan might be closer to becoming reality than you think. Exhibit A: This story from Japan Read More…
Amazon’s Plan To Help Police Identify Citizens In Real-Time And Predict Crimes
Two days ago NPR revealed that the Orlando Police Department is using Amazon’s facial recognition to identify peoples’ faces. Earlier this year, the ACLU sent an FOI request to the police department asking for more information about Amazon Rekognition. The title the police gave to the ACLU’s FOI request is both telling and disturbing it is called, ‘Conserving Read More…