UK arms industry: loitering with intent
Defence Minister Bob Ainsworth is a happy chappy:
I am pleased to inform the House that the Ministry of Defence has concluded a teaming agreement with the industrial grouping known as Team CW to take forward, to the next stage, the Government’s intentions for the UK complex weapons sector
In other words, the armed forces are going to be getting a new consignment of hot death. The Indirect Fire Precision Attack Loitering Munition is my favourite:
The Loitering Munition is so called because it gets fired off into the sky and then lurks about for up to ten hours. At any time, it can be ordered to suddenly plunge down onto a target and explode. If no target crops up, it will self-destruct before running out of fuel.
I can’t wait to see the failure rates on these babies. That said, footage of parents dragging their dead kids out of wrongly bombed houses has never had that much effect on arms manufacturers shareprices (or consciences).
(Link via Matt Wardman)
Posted on July 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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Insanity. Maybe it will have some use for distributing food parcels to people in need.
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Thanks for the link. Depressing stuff to trawl through when the Wintertons are sunning themselves in a posh bit of London or a posh bit of Cheshire
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There must be something wrong with me. I read that one and found myself snarling, not about the content but about the term “teaming agreement”…
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