The difference in sensor head is a bad sign. There’s a lot of intellectual property theft in this department. All the Chinese drones (and tanks and planes and ships and artillery and spaceships) are literally just body copies of American (or Russian) designs. Iran’s “drone” that they “made” after they captured the US drone that landed in Iran was basically just a 1:1 copy of it. And think of the design theft between the Big Three car companies back when cars actually looked like anything at all.
I’d want to see an officially labeled “gen II” Harpy with that sensor head before I called it one. Maybe there’ll be some Hebrew characters on parts inside the wreckage. If there are, it won’t ever get out because the Saudi royal family is jewish, but there might be.
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Tallest_Skil ago
The difference in sensor head is a bad sign. There’s a lot of intellectual property theft in this department. All the Chinese drones (and tanks and planes and ships and artillery and spaceships) are literally just body copies of American (or Russian) designs. Iran’s “drone” that they “made” after they captured the US drone that landed in Iran was basically just a 1:1 copy of it. And think of the design theft between the Big Three car companies back when cars actually looked like anything at all.
I’d want to see an officially labeled “gen II” Harpy with that sensor head before I called it one. Maybe there’ll be some Hebrew characters on parts inside the wreckage. If there are, it won’t ever get out because the Saudi royal family is jewish, but there might be.