Persian Gulf & Middle East Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Me am here mainly for see weapons with big load and big units Hehe
the financial aspect interests me less except bugdet for countries cause determines the number of weapons.But my friend for it uuh !
One of these want about one mill and for one ships presumably Egypt buy about two to three two to three times this number for have reloads then want about 70 mill but far far of 400 mill...
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Jura The idiot
General
navyreco, FORBIN: thanks for your opinion ... for me, though, the price is as important as displacement etc. ("a beautiful and armed to teeth ships can be built/purchased, but how many of those a Navy could afford?" is what I think about in the middle of Europe
Miragedriver
Brigadier
France and Saudi Arabia have signed agreements worth 10.000 million euros, including 23 Airbus H145 helicopters Helicopters
(Defensa.com) The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, has announced the signing of agreements between France and Saudi Arabia worth 10,000 million euros. Among the areas covered are defense, civil aviation and solar or nuclear energy. The announcement follows the visit of Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Defense and Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, France, who met with President Francois Hollande and the French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, with whom he discussed the situation in Yemen and Iraq.
The agreements include the supply of 23 helicopters Helicopters H145 Airbus amounting to 500 million dollars, still unknown branch of the Saudi armed forces that operate. Although not detailed, Reuters also mentions the construction of patrol vessels by the French shipyard DCNS. Other agreements concern is the possible construction of two nuclear reactors, which would be provided by the French state company Areva. According to EFE, in the civil area they signed agreements valued at 8,000 million including the construction of Airbus aircraft (30 A320 and 20 A330) for Saudi Airlines airline would have.
The H145 is a modern helicopter design that features a 4-axis autopilot and a maximum takeoff weight of 3.65 tons. Combine in a small plant size twin-engine propulsion engines equipped with Turbomeca Arriel 2 dual connected to a digital control system (FADEC), and a large cabin with large doors on the sides and back to optimize the layout. It is including a new avionics called Helionix developed by the company itself and the known rotor fairing technology known as Airbus Helicopters Fenestron. The H145, which previously received the name of EC145 T2, has been acquired in its military version H145M by Germany and Thailand.
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(Defensa.com) The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, has announced the signing of agreements between France and Saudi Arabia worth 10,000 million euros. Among the areas covered are defense, civil aviation and solar or nuclear energy. The announcement follows the visit of Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Defense and Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, France, who met with President Francois Hollande and the French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, with whom he discussed the situation in Yemen and Iraq.
The agreements include the supply of 23 helicopters Helicopters H145 Airbus amounting to 500 million dollars, still unknown branch of the Saudi armed forces that operate. Although not detailed, Reuters also mentions the construction of patrol vessels by the French shipyard DCNS. Other agreements concern is the possible construction of two nuclear reactors, which would be provided by the French state company Areva. According to EFE, in the civil area they signed agreements valued at 8,000 million including the construction of Airbus aircraft (30 A320 and 20 A330) for Saudi Airlines airline would have.
The H145 is a modern helicopter design that features a 4-axis autopilot and a maximum takeoff weight of 3.65 tons. Combine in a small plant size twin-engine propulsion engines equipped with Turbomeca Arriel 2 dual connected to a digital control system (FADEC), and a large cabin with large doors on the sides and back to optimize the layout. It is including a new avionics called Helionix developed by the company itself and the known rotor fairing technology known as Airbus Helicopters Fenestron. The H145, which previously received the name of EC145 T2, has been acquired in its military version H145M by Germany and Thailand.
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navyreco
Senior Member
Egypt is equipping its navy like no tomorrow
USA Delivered the Last Two Ambassador MK III Fast Missile Craft (Ezzat Class) to Egyptian Navy
Egypt is About to Procure an NH90 NFH Maritime Helicopter for its New FREMM Multi-Mission Frigate
USA Delivered the Last Two Ambassador MK III Fast Missile Craft (Ezzat Class) to Egyptian Navy
Egypt is About to Procure an NH90 NFH Maritime Helicopter for its New FREMM Multi-Mission Frigate
Jura The idiot
General
oh I think the tomorrow will be this summer
Egypt says New Suez Canal to open August 6, eyes economic boost
(I've read somewhere they want to show off, assure the World they're able to protect the Canal from both the Med and Red Sea by themselves ... then these acquisitions would make sense, wouldn't they?)
As I indicated in Post 1140
These are very heavily armed, good sea state vessels, with eight harpoon missiles (in launchers amidships between the bridge and the Phalanx), a 20mm Phalanx CIWS, a full RAM launcher with 21 missiles, and a 76mm main gun.
...and the Egyptian Navy now has four of them, though I understand that they plan six.
This means that the Egyptian Navy is going to be equipped with:
1 x FREMM FFG as their flagship
4 x Godwinfd 2500k FFGs, very modern and capable
4 x Perry FFGs, still very capable, particularly for ASW
2 x 053HE FFGs
2 x Knox FFGs
6 x Ezzat Class (Ambassadro Mk IIIs)
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ShahryarHedayat
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Foreign Office ‘did not stop Iraq making chemical weapons’
Papers from 1983 show diplomats knew of poison before it was used against Iran but did not act because British firm was involved in trade
The Iran-Iraq War broke out in 1980 and continued until 1988. Photograph: Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis
The government delayed taking action to prevent obtaining chemical weapons partially because British exporters were involved in the trade, according to Foreign Office documents.
Newly released papers from 1983 show that even before Iraq began widespread use of poison gas to repel Iranian attacks, diplomats were aware of Baghdad’s covert technology programme.
The secret file, entitled Chemical Weapon Manufacture in Iraq, records how officials agonised over whether to intervene. It is released to the National Archives in Kew, west London.
In April 1983, at the height of the Iran-Iraq war, the ambassador in Baghdad, Sir John Moberly, telegrammed the FCO and defence intelligence sections about the “manufacture and use of mustard gas by the Iraqi army”.
He added: “The UK company Weir Pumps has supplied a number of pumps to Indian contractors, Somdat Builders, who are building a factory at Samarra to manufacture pesticide.”
Weir Pumps, he said, had been frustrated in its attempts to discover technical information about the project.
Moberly added: “It would therefore seem fairly certain that part of the Samarra pesticide factory may also be used to produce materials for chemical warfare, including the manufacture of mustard gas.”
But the FCO’s arms control department declined to impose export restrictions. A longer memorandum considered whether it was “feasible” or “desirable” to intervene. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was, at that stage, far closer to the west than revolutionary .
An internal letter pointed out that there was no “non-proliferation regime” banning chemical weapons, and noted: “Britain alone could take limited action to control exports, but this would do little good. Global action might eventually be effective but would probably require public presentation of our evidence and would be very slow. Given that the Iraqi programme is already far advanced, I am skeptical about the feasibility of effective action.”
In terms of the desirability of intervening, the letter continued: “Iraq is acting within her rights acquiring [chemical weapons], and this has a bearing on the desirability of taking action against her.”
Iraq would only be breaching international law if it could be proved that it used the weapons first. The memorandum added: “It would be far easier for Iran to bring this case than us. Our own position on CW exports is not invulnerable.
“We do not … at present possess any means of controlling trade in precursor chemicals or chemical-related equipment … The Department of Trade says we could extend the list by administrative action though there could be commercial objections.
“Caution may be in order since our own trade in CS gas has not escaped criticism. Another relevant factor is that a British company, Weir Pumps, has apparently supplied pumps to the Samarra factory under the impression that they were for use in making pesticides.”
An estimated 20,000 Iranians were killed by mustard gas and nerve agents during the war. Many more still suffer lingering after-effects. The Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and precursors, did not come into force until 1997. International outrage over Iraqi use of poison gas was pivotal in changing attitudes.
On the FCO letter in April 1983, a senior official wrote that the UK should take no action at the UN security council or the international court of justice. The FCO did, however, begin to talk to its allies about the issue.
A later telegram to the Baghdad embassy recorded that the FCO intended to “at least slow down and perhaps frustrate Iraqi ambitions in this field”. By July that year, officials were expressing frustration about the US government’s reluctance to release intelligence on French and German companies involved in supplying chemicals to Iraq.
Papers from 1983 show diplomats knew of poison before it was used against Iran but did not act because British firm was involved in trade
The Iran-Iraq War broke out in 1980 and continued until 1988. Photograph: Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis
The government delayed taking action to prevent obtaining chemical weapons partially because British exporters were involved in the trade, according to Foreign Office documents.
Newly released papers from 1983 show that even before Iraq began widespread use of poison gas to repel Iranian attacks, diplomats were aware of Baghdad’s covert technology programme.
The secret file, entitled Chemical Weapon Manufacture in Iraq, records how officials agonised over whether to intervene. It is released to the National Archives in Kew, west London.
In April 1983, at the height of the Iran-Iraq war, the ambassador in Baghdad, Sir John Moberly, telegrammed the FCO and defence intelligence sections about the “manufacture and use of mustard gas by the Iraqi army”.
He added: “The UK company Weir Pumps has supplied a number of pumps to Indian contractors, Somdat Builders, who are building a factory at Samarra to manufacture pesticide.”
Weir Pumps, he said, had been frustrated in its attempts to discover technical information about the project.
Moberly added: “It would therefore seem fairly certain that part of the Samarra pesticide factory may also be used to produce materials for chemical warfare, including the manufacture of mustard gas.”
But the FCO’s arms control department declined to impose export restrictions. A longer memorandum considered whether it was “feasible” or “desirable” to intervene. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was, at that stage, far closer to the west than revolutionary .
An internal letter pointed out that there was no “non-proliferation regime” banning chemical weapons, and noted: “Britain alone could take limited action to control exports, but this would do little good. Global action might eventually be effective but would probably require public presentation of our evidence and would be very slow. Given that the Iraqi programme is already far advanced, I am skeptical about the feasibility of effective action.”
In terms of the desirability of intervening, the letter continued: “Iraq is acting within her rights acquiring [chemical weapons], and this has a bearing on the desirability of taking action against her.”
Iraq would only be breaching international law if it could be proved that it used the weapons first. The memorandum added: “It would be far easier for Iran to bring this case than us. Our own position on CW exports is not invulnerable.
“We do not … at present possess any means of controlling trade in precursor chemicals or chemical-related equipment … The Department of Trade says we could extend the list by administrative action though there could be commercial objections.
“Caution may be in order since our own trade in CS gas has not escaped criticism. Another relevant factor is that a British company, Weir Pumps, has apparently supplied pumps to the Samarra factory under the impression that they were for use in making pesticides.”
An estimated 20,000 Iranians were killed by mustard gas and nerve agents during the war. Many more still suffer lingering after-effects. The Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and precursors, did not come into force until 1997. International outrage over Iraqi use of poison gas was pivotal in changing attitudes.
On the FCO letter in April 1983, a senior official wrote that the UK should take no action at the UN security council or the international court of justice. The FCO did, however, begin to talk to its allies about the issue.
A later telegram to the Baghdad embassy recorded that the FCO intended to “at least slow down and perhaps frustrate Iraqi ambitions in this field”. By July that year, officials were expressing frustration about the US government’s reluctance to release intelligence on French and German companies involved in supplying chemicals to Iraq.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
IS Sinai Provence has claimed responsibility for launching rockets at Israel.
Earlier in the week
The Islamic State’s “province” in the Sinai has launched a series of coordinated attacks on Egyptian security forces. The massive assault involved three suicide bombers and dozens of fighters. The jihadists targeted military personnel and police stations in El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, both of which are located in the northern Sinai near the border with the Gaza strip and Israel.
Oh but there is more this new Provence is not just after the big two players...
WOW! so they are picking fights with everybody!