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[Marcello]

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.

[DRG]

?? Moronia ??



Thanks for that. It made my day.

Don

[Suhiir]

Maybe we should add Moronia to the OOB list?
It could have all the weapon systems the activists claim exist and all the weapons would be rated as super deadly, or totally inefficient, as the various groups claim they are.
I'd imagine fighting against the Moronia OOB would be quite the "experience".
Imagine!
Space based lasers picking off all the left handed redheads on the battlefield!
No stealth type aircraft would ever get airborne!
All bombs would utterly destroy square kilometers the 5% of the time they didn't malfunction!
Heavy machineguns knocking out tanks!
Cluster munitions would create minefields whenever used!

[Imp]

Glad I dropped in