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Turkey, Greece, UK and Pakistan have produced UAV which are leagues behind the American UAV proramme which is exactly why all of them have lined up in purchasing American Armed UAV's.
Because the R&D that goes into making an Armed UAV is very extensive and quite expensive.
Something which you fail utterly to understand.
Thats like saying that if Pakistan started making its own Rickshaws then it can produce a Ferrari.
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M2K,
There is no way one can move lefties from anti-American stance. Or we can call them Saddami-Pakistanis.
They supported Saddam in the hopes that he will be new saladin. Once he was pulled out of dirt hole, Saddamis have now become Nejatis.
Once Nejati would be pulled out of the dirt hole, these Saddamis will move and find some other despot from the middle East.
Such is the life of Saddamis in Pakistan.
Many years ago, I met this Irani dude in Karachi. He was all gung ho about Iranian NOOKLER TEKHNOLOGY.
When someone said, that if a country (Pakistan included) cannot even make a single cylinder engine, how could they ever claim that they are making cars let alone KOOKLER plants.
He got angry in a typically middle eastern style.
If Iranians had a true NOOKLER TEKHNOLOGY, they would have already fixed their oil refineries.
Because the nuclear plants use the very similar piping and monitoring systems like oil refineries except that the tolerance limits are much tighter in case of NOOKLER TEKHNOLOGY.
As we have seen in case of Pakistan, that you can make a nukie toy, but don't claim that you have NOOKLER TEKHNOLOGY.
Similarly drone technology has its basis in designing and flying the ordinary planes, only much more sophisticated.
And Iranians are no plane makers.
However these points are valid only for the unemotional, cool minded folks.
Our hot headed Middle Eastern tribals or their Pakistani lackies will never get it.
"and the “stuff you mentioned above…”? do you have any idea what 
as Vinny said, may be laws of physics don’t apply in Alabama, Iran and Pakistan