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The appeal for drones, sent out to Gordon’s mailing list, has since grown into a “thermal drone matching campaign” run by the One Israel Fund, another charity based in the Five Towns that supports West Bank settlements. The group hosts tours of the West Bank and holds annual wine-tasting barbecues in the Five Towns to fund settlement security projects. Although it usually raises $3 million per year, the One Israel Fund took in $2.5 million in the month after Oct. 7, according to the Long Island Herald

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Dunno, if it should be removed or not now, cause china can’t exactly control new york dipshits sales :(

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I had a back forth with someone from ml earlier today about this article, a post they have since deleted. These drones must have been bought between the July 31, 2023 export restrictions on drone tech and the July 2024 adjustments to those restrictions. The drones do not drop bombs, they have a universal mechanism that can drop anything and Israel has created a mechanism to attach to that universal mechanism to drop grenades.

As it stands now China will not ship these drones to Israel. According to Autel, they have banned the sale of their drones to the entire region. They've made two statements on the matter. Here:

DJI has a similar statement pre 2023:

On Amazon and other platforms you can not get these drones shipped to Israel:

In the 9 months between the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the adjustments to drone exports Israel bought ~~20,000~~ Chinese made drones (likely through consumer channels) and also relied on civilian donations of drones.

“Soldiers independently launched crowdfunding campaigns,” L. explained. “Our company received around NIS 500,000 (approximately $150,000) in donations, which we also used to buy drones.” C., another soldier, recalled being asked to sign thank-you letters to Americans who had donated EVO drones to his battalion.

In a Facebook group named “The Israeli Drone Pilots Community,” many posts request EVO drone donations for units in Gaza. Multiple pages on Headstart (an Israeli crowdfunding startup) were also created to independently raise funds for drone purchases.

The timeline on this purchase is unclear. It's also unclear if the changes to the export restrictions are a response to this purchase.

correction: Israel intends to buy 20,000 Israeli made drones.

From everything I've read and seen there isn't currently direct sales of drones from China to Israel.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago

The drones do not drop bombs, they have a universal mechanism that can drop anything and Israel has created a mechanism to attach to that universal mechanism to drop grenades.

those drones could deliver pizzas to bedroom windows.

any fucking thing you design a drone to do is going to be used for weapons.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago

Toyota should be marketing their pickups as "Lightweight, Tactical, improvised fighting vehicles".

[-] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago

they could make bank on a machine gun mount that 99% of their customers would never use

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