Game of Drones

[BlueStateSaint]

We're not the only ones with armed drones . . .

Game of Drones

China stepping up drone deployment


China's CH-4 armed drone disclosed for the first time in November / Source: Reuben Johnson

BY: Bill Gertz
March 26, 2013 4:59 am

China’s military is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle forces with a new Predator-like armed drone and a new unmanned combat aircraft amid growing tensions with neighbors in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
 
New unarmed drone deployments include the recent stationing of reconnaissance and ocean surveillance drones in Northeast Asia near Japan and the Senkaku islands and along China’s southern coast. Drones also are planned for the South China Sea where China has been encroaching on international waters and bullying nations of that region in asserting control over international waters, said officials familiar with intelligence reports.

“Unmanned aerial vehicles are emerging as critical enablers for PLA long range precision strike operations,” said Mark Stokes, a former military intelligence official now with the Project 2049 Institute. “A general operational PLA requirement appears to be persistent surveillance of fixed and moving targets out to 3,000 kilometers of Chinese shores.”
 
Japan, meanwhile, is developing and purchasing military drone capabilities to counter what it regards as Chinese aggression and Beijing’s growing military capabilities as Tokyo’s dispute with China over the Senkaku islands intensifies, the officials said.
 
After Chinese aircraft intruded into Japanese airspace over the Senkakus undetected late last year, Tokyo stepped up efforts to seek drone capabilities. The efforts include building an indigenous missile-tracking drone and high-altitude U.S. drones.

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'Twas only a matter of time . . .

[DefiantSix]

We're not the only ones with armed drones . . .

The rest is here:  http://freebeacon.com/game-of-drones/

'Twas only a matter of time . . .

Especially after Dear Leader practically HANDED one to the Iranians (who promptly handed it over to their ChiCom buddies) in December of 2011.

[Duke Nukum]

Slouching toward Skynet and Judgement Day.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Especially after Dear Leader practically HANDED one to the Iranians (who promptly handed it over to their ChiCom buddies) in December of 2011.

That one was actually a whole lot more sophisticated than a Predator, too.

Well, there is nothing all that unique and inscrutable about drone tech, you just have to be willing to spend the money on the signal and aircraft infrastructure to use it.  The PLA is nothing if not willing to spend whatever it takes on systems it wants.