Well, a little search on internet and you saw this was leaked 5 year ago
but hey rip
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This is indeed a War Thunder moment.
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Oh my god. It happened again didn’t it?
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Might have been the manual that you can buy online, it’s been up for years and has “nato declassified” on the bottom
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It also states “export restricted” once past the first few pages.
It is declassified likely to NATO-only entities, but anyone outside is likely restricted from accessing or viewing.
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Fair enough, still not a good idea to post it lol. At this rate the game is gonna get shutdown by 2025. I do wonder why you can go buy the document for 10 usd…
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I looked into it a bit more: a lot of these documents/manuals are not actually meant to be online. People get ahold of things (museum workers, private contractors, etc), and despite the copyright laws (as well as parts of the documents stating “Restricted”), they still post them.
These manuals are in no way meant to be sold nor distributed, no matter if they are classified, unclassified, declassified, or export restricted.
Think of it like this: if you ended up getting ahold of documents via a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, you wouldn’t copy and re-distribute/sell those, would you?
Actually that’s fine, you’d only have trouble with copyright where it might apply. But a FOIA release should clear you for public use.
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Oh, that’s neat! Thanks for the correction
(I am a tad over-cautious with this sort of stuff)
Got the link?
As I’m denser than a brick, was this a real leak or no?
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I see, maybe someone should send a E-Mail or something to a responisble agency or something? FOIA is fine like gunjob said, but if a docuemnt still has “restricted” without any “declassifed” text it should not be shared.
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honestly, the russian government should start hiring the leakers they get more classified info than the KGB
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apparently it is NATO restricted but… freely available online
this be literally him:
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Availability online is not proof of declassification, and there are only some ~7 pages in that document that have been marked declassified, the other 700+ have not been. I suspect what’s happened is someone has FOIA the document in the past, then IAF accidently uploaded the whole document rather than the pages they marked as declassified.
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no disagreement there.
quite the silly stunt they pulled releasing the whole thing. AFAIK, its only the cover page and the index pages that are NATO unclassified other than that they are all restricted and probably illegal to hold. Im glad NATO dosent chase down these holders tho.
someone checked with the UK MOD in February and they said they didn’t have the manual so couldn’t comment on it, and it was up to Eurofighter/IAF to confirm if it should be available, I’d be surprised if neither of those had found out about the manual since
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Жду от лучшей разведки мира документы о ттх снаряда танка абрамс. Хотя от про еврофайтер я еще давно гуглил и видел тоже самое
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