The MQ-9B drone can fly for about 48 hours and carry a payload of about 1,700 kilograms.
NEW DELHI: India plans to buy 30 armed drones from the US to boost its sea and land defences as tensions persist with neighbours China and Pakistan, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.
India will approve next month the $3 billion purchase of 30 MQ-9B Predator drones manufactured by San Diego-based General Atomics, the officials said, asking not to be identified speaking with the media. The deal would add to India’s military capabilities as the drones it has now can only be used for surveillance and reconnaissance.
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the drone attacks right there on oil facilities. and the rebels can t really afford food or much else necessarily. are the ones that are claiming responsibility for that. how likely is it that the yemeni folks who went about this attack? if it were them, how big of a deal is it that they were able to carry this out? what does that say? there is zero chance that they manufactured, built or bought the kinds of drones that can carry this out, that they might have been given those by iran it s perfectly possible. if iran gave them to them, they are not going to be doing anything like this without iran s permission or encouragement. we re talking about ten drones. drones capable of doing this are probably the equivalent of american predator drones, armed, big drones. it s not things you buy off the
you know the region very well and the geopolitics very well, hugely interrupt global energy as well. supplies. it s true that the united states let s start right there. is in a better position on would that be a highly unusual energy thanks to the obama move for the u.s.? i don t see exactly what the administration than it has ever been before. point of it would be. and the oil prices when they dpoe up, that s going to mean more fracking in the united states, more production in the united states, because it s expensive. once people understand that there are drones flying around the region where so much oil is produced that can take out the biggest single refinery in the world, which is what we just saw happen, as well as the saudi oil field, then the whole discussion about closing the straits becomes irrelevant. and it s plaeblg in the past. that s been a trigger for war. i think we re looking at the real possibility of a major war
drone. a short time ago, president trump insists it was brought down as it was threatening the uss boxer in the strait of hormuz. no doubt about it, we shot it down, of course, i m sitting here behind the desk in the oval office, but john tell me, please. john bolton, are you there? yeah, there s no question that this was an iranian drone and the uss boxer took it out as the president announced yesterday, it posed a threat to the ship and its crew. it s entirely the right thing to do. my next guest co wrote the book drone warrior. an elite soldiers inside account for the hunt for america s dangerous enemies, when he was an intelligence analyst, brent led a team that directed the movement of three predator drones. you write about how every action u.s. military forces take now use drones. how do you think they use drones when it am coulds to the seizing