Draken Contract Air Support

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This company came up in the news recently.  They are based in Florida.  Turns out one of the French air to air missiles they had was LIVE, as in ready to explode if the missile "determined" the arming sequence had been done (hope the fail-safes work well!)  Not cool at all to be shipping live ordnance around like that.

I also don't like the idea of private companies fielding this kind of aerial warfare hardware.  This function should be performed by people we have firm control of -- our own military.  I wonder if Draken performs mercenary services as another revenue stream.

Photo below shows how large the missile is.



Cheers