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Originally Posted by CarpathianDragon

P.S. : Bothers me to see this kind of "spice up" crap in a "humanitarian" report. You'd expect this from defence establishments.

Well that is because in all likelyhood that "humanitarian report" is based on defence establishment "spiced up crap".
Somebody at a defence company shows some shiny toys to te delegates of the people's republic of moronia, who make some nod in acknowledgement, then rushes to write some press release for www.army-technology.com or similar, which is duly noted by the activists.
Then the procurement "program" dies with a whimper, only that nobody goes about shouting about that for obvious reasons; but how exactly are they supposed to figure that out then?
In the iraqi case for example the whole WMD bugaboo and the IED threat have put iraqi ordnance under a degree of scrutiny unheard of for a third world country, the nice EOD 400 + pages long catalog with all the things that can go boom in Iraq I have on my hard drive attests to that. Yet despite this and others sources figuring things out has been a tricky and time consuming affair, with several areas of uncertainty. I can't imagine what it must be for others countries.