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2006-10-03 International-UN-NGOs

Arms sales record as firms duck controls with 'flat-pack' weapons

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Posted by Steve White 2006-10-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Arms sales record as firms duck controls with 'flat-pack' weapons

Sleep tight and don't let those AI bugs bite!

Posted by Big Daddy War Bucks 2006-10-03 02:03|| 2006-10-03 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem is most of those parts can be "duel use" and are designed to be.

For instance, it is a hell of a lot cheaper to build an engine that fits in private jets AND a attack chopper. Companies make more money and produce more product for a cheaper cost to private buyers and governments. It is called "Free Market", you socialist asswhipes. It is what is allowing the US to kick your sorry asses economically for the last 30 years.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-10-03 09:52|| 2006-10-03 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 "The UN has just opened its annual session on arms control."

A mere coincidence, surely.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-10-03 10:20|| 2006-10-03 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, a better example of that, Darth, is the SuperCobra. It uses the same engine as the Huey {Bell 214}, which is one of the most used civilian helicopters in the world. The 214 is also made by several companies worldwide under license, so there is a lot of parts bleed around the world. And the South Africans during apartheid developed an attack copter based on the engines and controls licensed to them by the French for production of one of the French helicopter designs.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-03 19:02|| 2006-10-03 19:02|| Front Page Top

#5 That French design was the Super Frelon and the South African derivative is the Roovalk. As a matter of fact, the French derived attack helicopter is so close in design to the South African, there is some question whether the French used industrial espionage to get the plans from the South Africans, rather than just doing an all-idependent design.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-03 19:07|| 2006-10-03 19:07|| Front Page Top

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