Re:China’s Giant Spy Drone Just Tailed a U.S. Navy Cruiser
by SiempreViernes on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:04PM
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No, the Iranian downing very nearly led to open war, it was only Trumps genuine unwillingness to start killing that prevented it, no other part of the military apparatus showed any restraint over an unmanned drone.
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Re:China’s Giant Spy Drone Just Tailed a U.S. Navy Cruiser
by ryanmercer on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:29PM
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Eh, Iran can't afford a war with the United States without a LOT of assistance from other countries. Iran's entire GDP is 58.6% of the proposed DoD budget for 2020.
In fact, Iran's military budget is less than NASA's budget (19.6 v 21.5 billion). For that matter if we look at 1.3 million people active duty military in the United States, and assume an E1 base salary of 18,384 a year that's more than Iran's entire military budget.