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- Comment on Australian weapon trialled by Israel's military ahead of potential sale 1 week ago:
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On EOS’s website the R400 is described as “Lightweight 30mm lethality with precise mobile engagements up to 2 km” and “a high-precision weapon platform with the firepower of a 30 mm cannon”.“The R400 also supports other weapons, such as machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, and anti-tank guided missiles. It is compatible with other EOS weapon systems through ‘plug-and-play’ functionality.”
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An accompanying photograph shows Israeli Defence Ministry officials and industry representative standing behind an R400 system, which is the same image included in the EOS “Market Development Update” provided to the Australian Stock Exchange. An image of the cream and black weapon, set against a white backgroundThe R400, manufactured by Electro Optic Systems (Supplied by the company, EOS)
In response to questions on whether EOS sought approval to demonstrate its R400, a Defence Department spokesperson insisted Australia had “not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel since the conflict began, and for at least the past five years.
“As the circumstances of the conflict have evolved, the Government has calibrated its approach and has only approved new export permits to Israel for items for Australian defence and law enforcement that will return to Australia,” the spokesperson said.
“Defence has also been undertaking a process to scrutinise the pre-existing export permits to Israel. These pre-existing permits were all approved before the conflict began and none of the permits relate to weapons or ammunition.”
Asked whether it had sought permission to export the lethal technology, and whether the product had first gone to the United States, an EOS spokesperson told the ABC that that the company “complies with all relevant regulations at all times”.
“EOS operates under the trade control regulations of the countries it is based in, due to the nature of its products and technologies,” the spokesperson added.
“That includes detailed regulations in Australia and other host countries where EOS manufactures products, like the United States.”
Greens Senator David Shoebridge says the involvement of EOS exposes the Albanese government’s “lies” that Australia has not supported Israel’s military campaign against Gaza, a position reinforced this week by the Prime Minister during a leaders’ debate.
“What we can see clearly here is an Australian made weapon in the hands of the Israeli military in Israel in January this year and I think that really puts the lie to these denials we’ve had from the Albanese government since this appalling conflict started,” Senator Shoebridge told the ABC.
- Comment on Am I the only one that think the new bitcoincash community is full of bots? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Yay 3 months ago:
sudo userdel -r project_tmp - Comment on Woolworths says workers still blocked from returning to Melbourne distribution centre 4 months ago:
Alternatively, use one of the helpful links when creating a post to send it to an archive service, and provide the resulting archive link in the post body.
- Comment on Woolworths says workers still blocked from returning to Melbourne distribution centre 4 months ago:
Yep, WTF! ABC news being gaslighty again.
Looks like archive.org captured the original: web.archive.org/web/20241207060622/…/104697608
- Comment on Homeless camps left without electricity or barbecues after Brisbane council cuts power 5 months ago:
…beyond the environment?
- Comment on High-profile restaurateur pleads guilty to displaying Nazi symbol at pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney 5 months ago:
The symbol referred to was displayed like so: A man in a protest crowd holding up a hand-painted placard in the style of an Israeli flag with a swastika replacing the star of david, and the words “STOP NAZI ISRAEL”
- Comment on 'You're not my king': [Senator] Lidia Thorpe escorted away after outburst [at Charles III in Parliament House] 5 months ago:
didnt she try block mardi gras earlier this year?
- She was protesting the involvement of police participating in the parade.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌃 ⛈️ 🏙️Saturday, August 24, 2024 7 months ago:
ß or β?
- Comment on Daily discussion. 🏅 Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 8 months ago:
Figure out how to pull apart the group head to give it a good clean (at least removing the shower screen). All machines need that occasionally, work machines get absolutely rank.
- Comment on This is ground control to Major Dumb... 9 months ago:
Yeah nah, that’s not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it’s really not eliminating the hazards.
fnqsafetygroup.org.au/…/cutting-empty-drums.pdf …gov.au/…/explosions-when-cutting-used-fuel-tanks…
There’s a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:
- An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
- Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine but instead of a 0.25L cylinder but a 200L cylinder).
- An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.
Methods to reduce the hazard include:
- Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
- Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn’t be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).
- Comment on Academia to Industry 9 months ago:
💩🤑🤖
- Comment on Im converting my boyfriend to linux, first step thigh high! 10 months ago:
Oh fuck yeah… never had it toasted before! Gotta try that some time.
- Comment on You can't block this ad 1 year ago:
yess… I too always remember to artfully leave the brand name visible when engaging in totally-not-guerilla-marketing on a meta-campaign by an advertising company.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' business lost more than $10 billion last year, and the losses keep growing 3 years ago:
Ray Bradbury would like his manuscript back.
- Comment on Federation and its consequences have been a disaster for the fediverse 3 years ago:
[Meta]Currently 3 upvotes, 13 downvotes. Interesting.What do up/down votes mean? On a post, I always figured an upvote to mean "This is relevant to the community and should be posted here.", and a downvote to mean "This is irrelevant to the community or should not have be posted here.".
[/Meta]I'm not really sure what to make of the linked blog post -- I think x-compasses are an oversimplification, that the fediverse has moved and diversified since the post was written, and now lemmy instances are quite a prominent mode of engagement in the fediverse; but some of the problems and stereotypes they painted in the post are still recognisable today, however inaccurate the depiction may be.
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