China should get the condom factories to produce latex in weather balloons like I suggested in my shitpost. We’ll be seeing massive panic hoarding of rubber in the not so near future.
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China should get the condom factories to produce latex in weather balloons like I suggested in my shitpost. We’ll be seeing massive panic hoarding of rubber in the not so near future.
5,000 is also a ridiculously large number for a country not at war. You only need a few drones if you wanted to analyse them, and the Iranians wouldn't be announcing it. China has companies selling military drones for export that haven't been bought by the PLA, you'd think they'd go to them first before Iranians.
Either the website are outright making the news up, or they are misattributing sales to Russia. Unless China is buying them to give them to Russia, which would be a strange thing to publicise.
On second thought they actually had a legitimate reason to shoot it down regardless of nationality of balloon this time. It apparently has lost control and is drifting at civilian airline altitude. It really was a hazard this time around.
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I have trouble believing China needs to buy Iranian drones.
Yeah, that's one of a few reasonable explanations if these news are true. If all the factories are already full, then it makes sense to just buy the excess demand from other countries, especially considering that those are pretty simple drones that probably don't need extensive integration or state-of-the-art specs.
Another possible explanation is that Russia is buying those drones through Chinese shell companies but in that case why would Iranian government publicize such a thing when their modus operandi so far has been officially denying that they sell the drones to Russia?
That's highly unlikely. Whatever Iran can provide would be a drop in the bucket compared to China's own manufacturing capacity. If China really have an urgent need for large number of drones, we'd be seeing Chinese manufacturers gearing up for massive production increases first.
Or China might be subsidizing the Iranian defense industry for political purposes and making it look like an arms purchase while also getting somewhat useful equipment. The Pentagon does this to small defense start-ups all the time. They buy their equipment even if they are not intending to use them. I still think we are discussing fake news as Trump would call it, though.
If China wanted to subsidise the Iranian defence industry they would just provide a low interest loan through some shell company. If they wanted something in return it would be rugs or pistachios, not drones.