...The Eitan, also known as the Heron TP, is the largest and most sophisticated drone Israel makes. It is assembled by Israel Aerospace Industries and began operational service in the Israel Air Force two years ago, in a new squadron at the Tel Nof airbase.
The Eitan's wingspan is as wide as a Boeing 737 airliner and it can stay in the air for up to forty hours, carrying out long-range missions at 40 thousand feet, hundreds of kilometers away from base, broadcasting back real-time footage of wide areas. According to foreign sources, the Eitan also carries out missions over Iran.
Israeli and British security sources have confirmed in recent days that the Royal Air Force has been considering buying a number of Eitan systems, since the Mantis, a joint British-French unmanned strategic project, has been delayed and will not be operational before 2020. Falklands? Continued on Page 47
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I don't want to pick on the Euros, really I don't, but the English and French can't get a working long-distance drone ready before 2020? Come on guys, the principles and engineering have been done by the US, Israel and others. It isn't easy-peasy but it's not insurmountable, either.
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It takes money to fund a research team, Dr. Steve, and right now they have much more urgent needs for whatever they can scrape up.
Like paying off their buddies, bribing people, supporting illegal and somewhat legal aliens who are determined to bite off the hand feeding them, etc., tw?
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I believe that skunk team is working on how to void the lawsuit against one said nurse who prayed instead of working without it looking like a voided lawsuit. It is quite ponderous, really.
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I'll continue to stand with Israel with all my heart and soul...However, I cannot provide resource support of any kind these days; those days are over. Pharaoh wants Israel to die. I haven't the means to fight him and his demons any more. -cz-
Migrants with criminal convictions will be able to get jobs denied to British workers under a new EU-wide criminal records regime being adopted this month.
In Britain, even the most minor convictions for student pranks or breaches of the peace can come back to haunt jobseekers years later if they apply for positions as teachers, policemen or other sensitive roles.
But migrants from EU countries applying for the same jobs will be given a clean bill of health, even if they have similar convictions, because other countries either wipe the slate clean or do not keep records of low-level offences.
The problem also applies to British workers trying to get jobs in other EU countries.
Justice campaigners have described the situation as scandalous and have asked MEPs and the Home Office to address the issue as a matter of urgency.
The problem arose after Britain signed up to a trial of the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), a new system of sharing criminal records between EU member states which is being permanently adopted this month.
Britains rigorous Criminal Records Bureau regime means that even convictions classed as spent remain on file for life and can be thrown up during background checks by potential employers anywhere in the EU.
In stark contrast, countries such as Belgium and Germany routinely destroy after just three years records of convictions resulting in prison sentences of less than six months or fines of less than 500 euros.
Other EU countries have laws which prevent employers being told about spent or minor convictions, and in some countries, such as the Netherlands, fines of less than 100 euros for minor crimes are not treated as criminal convictions for the purposes of CRB checks.
As well as the disparity in the way records are kept, EU countries have wildly varying sentences for different offences. In Germany, someone who indecently assaults a child can be given a sentence of as little as six months, whereas in the UK the starting point is two years.
Three guesses as to how the EUcrats want to regularize such things .....
Britain ought to make its prisoners work in "chain gangs" to clear litter building up on the side of major public roads, a Conservative MP has said.
Andrew Percy, MP for Brigg and Goole, made the suggestion after becoming concerned about rubbish mounting up by motorways in his constituency, including hundreds of bottles of urine thrown away by lorry drivers.
"In the US I have seen chain gangs out clearing highways -- why can't we do that here?" he said. "We have criminals expected to pay back -- why not get them out there doing something of use?"
Mr Percy has written to the Highways Agency to about growing piles of litter on the M62 and A63 in East Yorkshire following complaints from his constituents.
"We need a British equivalent of the US chain gang," he said. "The only risk we have in this country is there are too many do-gooders claiming it's against [prisoners'] human rights.
"We don't necessarily need them to be wearing orange jump suits and chained together, but what we should be looking at is we've got all these people sat in prison who could be working in the community."
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Here in the States the euphemism 'community service' is employed as a voluntary alternative to other punishment. You get a better gig/job depending on who you know or the public nature of your name [see numerous posts in the Burg on celebs]. There is even a provision in the 13th Amendment that a lot of people [to include the Judiciary] seem to ignore -
"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Britain ought to make its prisoners work in "chain gangs" to clear litter building up on the side of major public roads, a Conservative MP has said. 
