© Agence France-Presse/JungYeon-JeA man walks past a US Air Force Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle hanger during a preview day of the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition at a military air base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, on October 17, 2011.
The unmanned aerial vehicle industry is expected to bring in billions for domestic drone makers over the next few years. Where are the robotic aircraft manufacturers sending their stealth spy plans though? They aren't saying.
The American Independent reports that Texas' Vanguard Defense Industries, a US Defense Department contractor that outfits the Pentagon with unmanned aerial drones, has inked agreements with several overseas governments. According to the
Independent, Vanguard is expected to see most of their profits in the next year occur from selling airships to foreign nations. Just exactly who is on the receiving end - and to the tune of how many crafts - remains a mystery.
"I thought it was going to be a brutal process," Vanguard CEO Michael Buscher explains to The Independent in discussing how his company went about gaining US State Department approval. He says that he imagined the procedure to outfit foreign nations with the controversial aircraft would be difficult, but was surprised to see how easy it was to have Uncle Sam authorize his company to deal the drones overseas.
"It was well orchestrated and extremely thorough. But when you follow their guidelines and provide copious details, the process is not as burdensome as I would have thought," says Buscher.
Comment: What are all these anonymous officials basically telling us? That the threat is still at large, and that we should be very afraid. At the same time we should be grateful to the FBI and the CIA for saving our lives by being on top of this secret operation that they so masterfully stopped in its tracks. What we find most interesting of all however, is how this mysterious plot came a month after Obama approved the bombing of the population of Yemen, a sovereign country that the US has no legitimate reason whatsoever to want to attack. What better excuse to justify more slaughter of Yemeni innocents than to claim that allegedly an underwear bomb was created by 'terrorists' in that country, with plans to use it, allegedly, to destroy a commercial flight.
If you are experiencing a feeling of déjà vu it's because we saw this phony drama play out before:
The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism