One and one don’t make five.

Some perhaps obvious scare mongering from Fox News and some very spurious claims from the investigators. If you can find somebody that can lift an extra 20lbs with a Raven then I will eat my hat. The story centres on the sale of a Raven put up for sale on eBay by Henson Chua. In March, Chua was indicted and charged by a grand jury in Tampa with violating the Arms Export Control Act and smuggling, after he imported an RQ-11B “Raven” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from the Philippines into the U.S. The Raven is listed on the U.S. munitions list as a defensive item, and U.S. law forbids people from buying and selling defense equipment without permission from the government. According to the indictments, in May 2010, the Department of Defense learned that a “Raven” had been listed on eBay for $13,000. They determined that it belonged to the U.S. government, and an agent of Homeland Security Investigations began to correspond with the seller, posing as a potential buyer. Over the course of several months, the two corresponded about selling the plane, and also discussed how best to smuggle it out of the country. The agents believed the seller was Chua, who was from […]
One and one don’t make five.