{"id":6943,"date":"2021-01-04T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=265542"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:28:32","slug":"not-just-careless-australian-weapons-part-turns-up-on-armenian-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/not-just-careless-australian-weapons-part-turns-up-on-armenian-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Careless: Australian weapons part turns up on Armenian battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/drone.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Drone, Microair, Defence\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/drone.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/drone-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>How did an Australian-made transponder, a key part of drone technology, end up\u00a0in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan where human rights abuses are prolific? Michelle Fahy investigates the murky trail of the drone bit and the cagey response of the Defence establishment from DFAT to DoD to Minister Marise Payne.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/australian-weapons-part-on-armenian-battlefield\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did an Australian-made transponder, a key part of drone technology, end up\u00a0in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan where human rights abuses are prolific? Michelle Fahy investigates the murky trail of the drone bit and the cagey response of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}