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…
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.
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?
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.
honestly, the russian government should start hiring the leakers they get more classified info than the KGB
apparently it is NATO restricted but… freely available online
this be literally him:
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.
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
Жду от лучшей разведки мира документы о ттх снаряда танка абрамс. Хотя от про еврофайтер я еще давно гуглил и видел тоже самое
Mistakes can happen to anyone
It was a NATO Restricted Document, not classified + it was a pdf available to the public, on Google.
danke
it really is a joy to return back to the forums every now and again when something…fun crops up
at the very least, we can take solace in the fact that the leaker did so unawares of the entire state of the document. No malicious intent, as is usually the case when you’re running a public suggestion system that works with primary sources
I wonder what the consequences will be for the DA7’s future game model. Hopefully the accuracy will be unaffected despite them having to avoid this incident.
That’s probably the likeliest scenario.
The website this was sold on likely never claimed the manual was export restricted, or had export restricted sections.