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Re:Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more tha... by bbbbb5 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:13AM (#34261954)
>Apparently valuable enough to do a prisoner exchange for.

You don't do prisoner exchanges because of the valuable contributions of that agent, you do prisoner exchanges to ensure future contributions by other agents.

>I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

They're just fine. What kind of quality do you think they need to hit a power plant with a missile? Most of their missiles aren't that precise anyway.

There's only an extremely limited set of circumstances where drone footage of power infrastructure could be useful.

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Re:Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more tha... by mannerheim on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:27AM (#34262215)
In any event, Russia does send spies to do precisely what you insisted they don't.
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Re:Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more tha... by bbbbb5 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:01PM (#34262824)
Your article says nothing about the nature of the surveillance. It does not in any way dispute my previous comments.
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