Reuters reported on Friday that a Biden administration plan to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones to Ukraine has been put on pause over fears of the drone’s surveillance technology falling into “enemy hands.”
The MQ-1C Gray Eagle can be armed with hellfire missiles and can fly for about 30 hours. If sold to Kyiv, the drone would give Ukrainian forces the capabilities to carry out airstrikes deep inside Russian territory.
Sources told Reuters that the plan to sell the drones to Ukraine was approved by the White House but was put on hold due to an objection raised during a review by the Pentagon’s Defense Technology Security Administration.
The objection was raised over concerns that if Russia acquired the radar and surveillance technology inside the drones, it would create a security risk for the US. The sale will now be reviewed at a higher level in the Pentagon, and it’s not clear when a decision might be made.
The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is made by General Atomics, and it’s estimated they each cost about $10 million, according to Army budget documents. If the sale happens, it’s likely it will be paid for by the US under Foreign Military Financing (FMF), a State Department program that gives foreign governments money to buy US-made weapons. The $40 billion Ukraine aid package President Biden recently signed into law included $4 billion for FMF.
If approved by the Biden administration, the sale could potentially be blocked by Congress, but that’s unlikely to happen as most lawmakers don’t seem too concerned over the risk of provoking Moscow. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) slammed the administration this week for what he said was “too cautious” of an approach when it came to doling out weapons to Ukraine and called for the drone sale to be pushed through.
They are worried about Russia capture this drone which Russia doesn’t give a rat ass about…But, they are not worried about this drone fall into a wrong hand and being sold in black market to a potential terrorist organization…!
Any bets the drones are already in Ukraine?
Biden is being “too cautious!?” If alive now, Justin Raimondo would have dropped a colossal hammer of an article on someone’s head.
Biden? Who is he? Oh! the Zionists’ dog
“The objection was raised over concerns that if Russia acquired the radar
and surveillance technology inside the drones, it would create a
security risk for the US.” BS. Those drones have been operational for years. The Russians know them top to bottom and could probably get more advanced technology on eBay. The press are a bunch of court stenographers. But it’s good the government seems to want to lose gracefully, if not cheaply.
So, drones over Poland and Germany are okay?
That is what would happen if we supply these to cruise over Russia. Tit-for-tat is the norm, and must be expected as near automatic.
How easy would it be for Russia to shoot down these slow moving drones?
The debt situation in the West exceeds the total value of the entire countries, including the land. Debt that can only be paid back by selling the entire country and everything it contains.
Our currencies are massively overvalued through two mechanisms: reserve status of the US dollar and increase in debt to a level where we have pawned everything we own,
The people who own our debt, who own us, actually own everything we think we own. They meet every year at the World Economic Forum in Davos along with the western political elites who they also own.
We have come to the end of the line. We can no longer keep up our living standards by debt. The debt is reaching beyond what we own as collateral and our currencies are worthless. The entire West is about to go bankrupt.
Going forward there are only two scenarios: declare bankruptcy and erase the debt by diktat (this will also erase the wealth and political power of our owners) or our owners take over the collateral (you will own nothing and you will be happy).
Asset seizures will occur by the following mechanisms: Abolishment of sovereignty, Recessions and Depressions, Oppression and massive censorship.
Russia and China, and the war in Ukraine is simply the means to bring all countries within “The Great Reset”. They cannot be subjugated through bankruptcy and their assets harvested.
Subjugating Russia and China is an existential issue for our owners and they are desperate. If the western economy is taken down and a large economic block doesn’t participate in the downfall then they will gain massive economic power.
Russia and China must be subjugated by any means including global world war. This is “The Great Reset” coming to a slum near you.
Zionist thugs murdered Sloven Milosevic , Saddam Hussein, Murmur Qaddafi and robbed their gold and other reserves.Jovenel Moise was murdered and his left eye was gorged out to find out the place where stored his stolen assets were stashed in. Now the Zionists are trying the same thing with Russia.If they fail U S of A will pass in to history.
No joke, these drone are targets when going over territory controlled by a first world power with surface to air missiles – SAMs. They light up a radar like a christmas tree.
These drones only work well when blowing up tribal people with no defenses.
It simply is baloney to suggest that these weapons are held back because of fear that they could fall in to Russian hands.Weapons are made to be used.The reason is Zionists and their lapdogs in Washington got the message from Russia. That is, be prepared to welcome nukes if your weapons fall in Russian land. And Zionists understand Russia means what they say.
Maybe Joe Biden should just bang his head on the ground a few more times while riding his bicycle.
Heh…
I was hoping maybe that might’ve knocked some sense into him…
We know it CAN’T knock it out of him. He’d have to have some first.
Without the helmet.
In total, 207 airplanes and 132 helicopters, 1,249 unmanned aerial vehicles, 344 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,683 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 562 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 2,043 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 3,715 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Huh?
A State Department program that gives foreign governments money to buy Amerikkkan-made weapons?
Am I actually reading this correctly? If so, even our weapons giveaways are insanely convoluted.
That’s how almost all foreign “military aid” works.
All that money to Israel? “Here’s $X billion for arms. Here are the types of arms you’re allowed to buy, and the manufacturers (all American) you’re allowed to buy them from.”
And when people complain about the aid, that’s one of the “justifications” offered for it — “the money isn’t really going to Israel, it’s going to provide jobs at ‘defense’ contractors here at home.”
Well Thomas I’ll be f*cked 😳
There was a line of control. There was the OSCE who where the referee. Drone technology from Turkey was use by govt of Ukraine to attack DPR/Lugansk (Seperatist (or so-called*)) Both sides chose to violate to smaller, but the drone was escallation.
“Col (retired) Douglas Macgregor on the Lies Getting Ukrainians Killed” this is on Scott Horton (Antiwar) Radio.
*depending on your politics
https://www.rt.com/russia/557428-50-ukrainian-generals-officers-killed-russia/
https://russian.rt.com/ussr/article/1016362-minoborony-rossiya-vsu-ukraina
Ukraine’s officer corps and general staff suffered casualties from Kalibr missile strikes.
How quickly could one attain both immortality and promotion from colonel to four-star general in Ukraine’s army? What about the US equivalent of first sargeant to sargeant major? Private to sargeant?