Ukrainian-origin companies built drone factories in the UK, and now the UK government is funding production in those factories. Win-win.
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BorisJohnsonsBarber4 days ago
+40
Win-win is exactly right. Ukraine gets drones that are actually useful, and doesn't get gouged by the massive corporations. The UK gets to create more skilled jobs, and gets access to unparalleled drone and drone countermeasure expertise.
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Practical_Chemtrail4 days ago
+15
Low key this is the big win. Drones designed by Ukrainians who have a deep and hard won understanding of what capacities are required at effective price points.
Throwing expensive untested or unwanted drones at the problem is not going to help.
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BorisJohnsonsBarber4 days ago
+6
"Hard-won" is an understatement, but you're entirely right.
Europe can learn these lessons from a friend now, or learn them from an enemy later.
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ApproachableGent3 days ago
+1
They say Britain doesnt have an army.. who needs an army when you've got good drones i guess
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008Zulu4 days ago
+184
I would like to imagine that UK's drone obliterate their targets with their nation's famed dry wit.
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Tinuva4504 days ago
+92
We are the drones that say “Ni”
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008Zulu4 days ago
+28
Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!
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LesserShambler4 days ago
+49
No, it just hovers near the target and passive aggressively makes tutting noises under it’s robot breath
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wrincewind4 days ago
+8
Much like the legendary katana, a well-pitched "honestly..." or "well, really!" can cut a tank clean in half.
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Floccus3 days ago
+2
The newer models can tactically deploy a newspaper to rustle aggressively.
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popeter454 days ago
+29
🎶 always look on the bright side of life 🎶
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LetterNo78294 days ago
+14
The audioclip where they sing
“Always look at the bright side of death. *whistle* Just before you draw your terminal breath”
should play whenever these drones are approaching the target. Imagine the look on Ivan’s face, right before it gets blown off.
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PradyThe3rd4 days ago
+16
Their payload is just snippets of Stephen fry monologues. The Russians laugh themselves to death
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strikky4 days ago
+9
Love it... or David Mitchell ranting about some inane social faux pas.
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stalinsnicerbrother4 days ago
+11
Don't forget that we've weaponised the funniest joke ever discovered. And now, Drones with speakers can hover over the lines
*У моей собаки нет носа....*
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PradyThe3rd4 days ago
+7
I think that violates the Geneva convention on joke warfare
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Demostravius44 days ago
+6
Two peanuts vere valking down..ze strazen.
One was. Assaulted.
Peanut.
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JSteigs4 days ago
My dog has no nose….
How does he smell…
Awful
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Agitated_Ad75764 days ago
+3
"Sorry I'm about to blow you up Old Chap, but war is a dog's dinner."
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MAGIGS4 days ago
+2
This drone is no mooooore! It has ceased to beeeee.
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McHoff3 days ago
+2
Early on in the war there was a video of a Ukrainian soldier firing a UK anti tank missile while shouting "God save the queen!"
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ImaginationToForm24 days ago
+2
The drone will play Mr Bean or Benny Hill to distract the bad guys.
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008Zulu4 days ago
+1
It plays Benny Hill as it chases them.
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ImaginationToForm23 days ago
+1
LUL, That be a funny AI video to watch.
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vreemdevince4 days ago
+1
Dropping shells with scalding hot baked beans or mushy peas. Sticks like napalm.
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JCDU4 days ago
+3
Dropping 13A plugs for people to step on, more brutal than a land mine.
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wdomeika4 days ago
+129
With every country that steps up and does the right thing, Trump gets smaller...
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wrincewind4 days ago
+5
Just a few hundred more countries until the rest of his body is as tiny as his little baby fists!
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Fragglesmurfbutt4 days ago
+147
UK has become Ukraine's greatest ally.
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Agitated_Ad75764 days ago
+35
Can spell Ukraine without 'uk'.
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grimmalkin4 days ago
+29
Most common weather in the UK rain(e)
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lebennaia4 days ago
+65
Revenge for Salisbury continues.
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Apart_Cookie_99684 days ago
+11
Poland and other Eastern European countries for step up massively for Ukraine
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Karabungulus4 days ago
+2
Yeah it's been a big team effort to support Ukraine
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Slight-Bet7543 days ago
+1
Not in terms of financial help. Germany is leading (including weapon delivery)
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Sad_Sultana3 days ago
+1
As a brit I am really proud of this and happy to see major support for ukraine from both sides of the political aisle here, unlike certain other nations.
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clamorous_owle4 days ago
+83
Cheers to Britain! 🇬🇧
Helping Ukraine defend itself is not a one way street. Ukraine has developed a tremendous amount of expertise combating drones. Ukraine is advising countries in the Persian Gulf how to protect themselves from Iranian drones.
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TheCouncilOfElrond4 days ago
-39
Are Iran the bad guys?
I know America are the bad guys and they've single handedly caused the global fuel crisis. Is Iran a piece of shit to a lot of middle eastern countries? I thought that title went to Israel and I'm unaware of Iran's actions prior to the US Iran war
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Sweaty-Adeptness15414 days ago
+52
Both sides can be the bad guys in a conflict, there is no need for back and white thinking.
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glmory4 days ago
+22
One of the things that is so different about Ukraine is that it is one of the few wars where there is a black and white good and bad. It drives a lot of the importance of the war. Ukraine losing could return the world to the sort of colonization that mostly went away in the post World War Two period.
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Single_Classroom_4484 days ago
+29
Iran sponsor terrorist groups around the middle east and beyond, help russia produce shahed drones they're using against ukraine, and have murdered a lot of their own public
It's a situation where the USA, Israel, and Iran are all bad people really
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TheRebuild283 days ago
+1
Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.
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lawrenceM964 days ago
+8
The IRGC ruling over Iran is one of the most destabilising nations in the world and are an abhorrent dictatorship that brutalise and oppress their own people. They fund and control numerous terror groups across the world, assist Russia with their military hardware and supply fuel and other critical support to Myanmar's Junta. A world without the IRGC is good for Iran and good for global stability and peace.
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hard_carbon_hands4 days ago
+6
Joking or serious?
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TheCouncilOfElrond3 days ago
+1
I'm just unaware and happy to learn
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Aether_Breeze4 days ago
+4
It is never a bad thing to admit you don't know something and to ask a question.
The only bad thing is to be ignorant and to revel in it. Everyone should be willing to ask when they don't know something and that will make the world a better place.
All this is to say, ignore the downvotes, good on you for asking when you didn't know, and yes, Iran are 100% the bad guys. This war is an 'everyone sucks here' situation.
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TheCouncilOfElrond3 days ago
+1
These comments although aggressive I really wanted to know and appreciate it
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Sad_Sultana3 days ago
+1
Yeah Iran are the f****** bad guys, obviously, but so are Israel and America. Conflicts aren't one sided, but sometimes they heavily favour kne side over the other (see ww2 or the ukraine war)
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ye_olde_green_eyes4 days ago
The unawareness is clear.
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grimmalkin4 days ago
+62
It is seldom in this day and age that I feel proud of my country, but today is that day.
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GardeniaFrangipani4 days ago
+35
As an Australian, I’m very proud of your country too. ❤️
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Pick_Up_Autist4 days ago
+23
We've been pretty consistent in doing what we can to help, even when the con artists were in charge.
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coachhunter24 days ago
+23
F*** Putin
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el_dude_brother24 days ago
+5
And Putin's lapdog Trump
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Far-Entertainer35554 days ago
+13
140,000 is great. I had no idea we were producing drones in serious volumes.
140k will likely last Ukraine approx 4-8 weeks, depending upon the type of drones being provided.
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i-read-it-again4 days ago
+7
So is this why trump is so angry at the uk . What will trumps friend Putin say about this ?
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AstralWoman4 days ago
+9
"Flash by name, Flash by nature...Hurrah!"
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AdFeeling8424 days ago
+23
this is great, but the uk could have delivered even bigger package if they used cargo plane instead of a drone...sigh
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m0rphiumsucht1g4 days ago
+2
Slava Ukralini
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Sup3rT48914 days ago
+3
“Biggest ever, from Uk” or biggest UK has given?
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Actually_a_dolphin3 days ago
+2
Biggest UK has given.
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Formal_Tea_19974 days ago
+13
brittian really said we may have lost the empire but we kept the recipts
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WIZZZARDOFFREESTYLE4 days ago
-46
BRO FUCKED AND KEPT THE RECEIPTS
LOWKEY TS TUFF 🥀
PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG AND GET THE DIH
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hippodribble4 days ago
+3
Are they sending Boris?
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mmoonbelly4 days ago
+4
Maybe as target practice? [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/stuck-zip-wire-boris-johnson-london-2012-olympics](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/stuck-zip-wire-boris-johnson-london-2012-olympics)
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vreemdevince4 days ago
+16
Wasn't he still a strong supporter of Ukraine during his time though?
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Individual_Panda_4224 days ago
+17
Yeh tbf I can't stand the man and I think the damage he's done to this country through his lies leading up to Brexit is unforgivable, but this is something he does deserve credit for. I was proud as an Englishman to see his response to this conflict at the time.
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shion9804 days ago
+6
So basically, the UK is helping Ukraine with supply packages, the US is helping Russia by making their oil more expensive and China is arming Iran with anti-air weapons.... All while the rest of the world suffers from the war.
I f****** hate our timeline.
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WhereTheSpiesAt4 days ago
+26
Pretty much the entirety of Europe as well as most Western aligned countries are providing supply packages to Ukraine, seems odd to miss that out.
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shion9804 days ago
+2
Mb. I forgot about the rest of Europe. I just read off the title while typing that.
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Keezees4 days ago
+2
Drone waits behind target, then another drone appears and waits behind the first drone, until there's a queue waiting to blow the target up.
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Sad_Sultana3 days ago
+2
And from head on it looks like just one drone, genius really.
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Comfortable_Shame7784 days ago
+2
In that shipment, can’t we sneak in a few Trident II missiles.
And before anyone says anything, I am fully aware these are launched from submarines. It was just a joke.
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