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ShahryarHedayat

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Iran Unveils upgraded model of the Keyhan (Cosmos) radar

A number of Iran’s homegrown air defense systems, including upgraded radars and electronic warfare equipment, were unveiled on Saturday.

Commander of Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili opened an exhibition of the latest domestically-made air defense equipment in Tehran.

One of the unveiled products was the upgraded model of the Keyhan (Cosmos) radar. According to the commander, this new version is a fully mobile radar system with high resolution.

Keyhan is a long-range radar that uses mixed frequencies to identify small flying objects, and is suitable for detecting large number of aerial targets in the electronic warfare.

Elsewhere in the exhibition, a variety of ground-based radar jamming systems were unveiled.

Brigadier General Esmaili also unveiled a domestically-made IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe) system. He said the system can distinguish friendly forces from the enemy by detecting 100 targets simultaneously.

A number of other Iranian radars, including Bina, Nazir and Talash were also put on display in the exhibition.

Tehran has repeatedly stated that its military might is defensive in nature and poses no threat to other countries.


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Miragedriver

Miragedriver

Brigadier
"Hero", the new family of tactical guided weapon systems from Israeli arms factory

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(Defensa.com) The Hebrew uVision introduced a new family of tactical guided weapons called "Hero" that can be operated either from ground positions from naval platforms or from helicopters or other air assets. They have dual modes autonomy and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and a system of ammunition capable of providing adequate lethality against the selected target. The family structure depending on the objective and scope to beat, so the Hero 30 is designed for operating mines; while the Hero 400 incorporates a more powerful anti-tank warhead provides shelters and protected against capabilities.

Operated in real time, once they launched using its own guidance system and address to sign up to the target. Once located in the vicinity of the target to beat, the operator will use the night / day electro / optical system to implement the final phase of guidance, thus obtaining a high precision and equally reducing side effects. Another of its outstanding features is the low noise and low thermal signature, increasing their lethality to not be detected in advance. It can be used both against tactical targets such as greater power and reach strategic targets can beat. Profits, make it very suitable tool dwarf operated in asymmetrical conflicts.

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Currently there are a number of models available, as are light Hero 30, which incorporates an electric motor and battery autonomy of 30 minutes and can reach a maximum distance of 40 kilometers, also incorporates a 0.5 kilogram warhead and is designed to missions mines. The Hero 400, is powered by a gasoline engine and autonomy of 4 hours and can reach 150 kilometers, it weighs 25 kilos and includes a warhead 8 kilos, allowing you to hit targets of great importance and very accurately. Currently, this Israeli company is developing a more comprehensive range comprising greater lethality and scope that will reach up to 250 kilometers.

UVision already has two clients who have already acquired those systems. From the comments we hear from those responsible, although not pronounced the names of the countries, if we can understand that it would be the armed forces of Israel and the United States. However, many others are the countries that have shown considerable interest in these products, according to the company, including several Europeans would find

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Back to bottling my Grenache
 
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Recently my Dutch newspaper
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published in translation an article from Politico Europe by a US writer about the threat of a Russian attack on NATO in which he claimed that Russian aircraft repeatedly violated the territorial airspace of Western European countries, which of course is BS. They just enter the ADIZ of UK and other countries. The article consisted mostly of bull excrement. I reckon Politico is propaganda.
 
kwaigonegin

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asif iqbal said:
Btw I did not know that Saudi had financed the Rafale purchase by Egypt for around 15%

24 units to be delivered

Saudi usually does this for many Arab country's but then they are expected to make their forces available to Saudi if need be

This is why so many nations are taking part in Yemen operation I guess
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Yes, unbeknownst to a lot of people the Saudi government funds a ton of weapons purchase for other Sunni Arab countries... and they are funding them for exactly the same reason you've observed. They come with a bunch of IOUs attached so when call upon these nations would feel 'obligated' to participate in whatever they are called upon.

Together with military systems, Saudis also project influence through soft power via systems and infrastructure projects. These include bank loans, infrastructure projects even 'donating' to political parties. Of course their most significant contributions are through religious project. They have literally finance thousands of mosques and madrassahs all over the world and plays a significant role in influencing the theologies of such places.
 
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Russian jets in Syrian skies
Russia has begun its military intervention in Syria, deploying an aerial contingent to a permanent Syrian base, in order to launch attacks against ISIS and Islamist rebels; US stays silent.

Alex Fishman

Published: 08.31.15, 15:34 /
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Russian fighter pilots are expected to begin arriving in Syria in the coming days, and will fly their Russian air force fighter jets and attack helicopters against ISIS and rebel-aligned targets within the failing state.


According to Western diplomats, a Russian expeditionary force has already arrived in Syria and set up camp in an Assad-controlled airbase. The base is said to be in area surrounding Damascus, and will serve, for all intents and purposes, as a Russian forward operating base.



In the coming weeks thousands of Russian military personnel are set to touch down in Syria, including advisors, instructors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and the pilots who will operate the aircraft.


Past reports have stated that the Russians were in talks to sell the Syrians a package of MiG-29 fighter jets, and Yak-130 trainer jets (which can also serve as attack aircraft.) The current makeup of the expeditionary force is still unknown, but there is no doubt that Russian pilots flying combat missions in Syrian skies will definitely change the existing dynamics in the Middle East.



The Russians do not harbor offensive intentions towards Israel or other sovereign states in the area, and their main stated goal is battling ISIS and preserving Assad's rule. However, their presence will represent a challenge to the Israeli Air Force's freedom of operation in the skies above the Middle East.



Western diplomatic sources recently reported that a series of negotiations had been held between the Russians and the Iranians, mainly focusing on ISIS and the threat it poses to the Assad regime. The infamous Iranian Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani recently visited Moscow in the framework of these talks. As a result the Russians and the Iranians reached a strategic decision: Make any effort necessary to preserve Assad's seat of power, so that Syria may act as a barrier, and prevent the spread of ISIS and Islamist backed militias into the former Soviet Islamic republics.


The Russians are not the only ones coordinating their Middle East policy with the Iranians; The US has also jumped aboard that train. American government officials have been holding intensive consultations with representatives of the Iranian regime concerning a stronger joint effort against ISIS in Iraq. It seems that the US government currently views Iran as a central and necessary force in the campaign against ISIS within Iraq.



The Iranian-American cooperation is focused on two focal points: The first being Anbar province, where the Iraqis have thus far failed to expel ISIS; and the second Mosul, where the Iraqis have yet to come up with a feasible plan to recapture the city.



Western diplomatic sources have emphasized that the Obama administration is fully aware of the Russian intent to intervene directly in Syria, but has yet to issue any reaction. The absence of a vocal opposition from the Obama administration is compounded by its cessation of calls for the dissolution of Assad's murderous regime.

This and more: The Iranians and the Russians- with the US well aware- have begun the struggle to reequip the Syrian army, which has been left in tatters by the civil war. They intend not only to train Assad's army, but to also equip it. During the entire duration of the civil war, the Russians have consistently sent a weapons supply ship to the Russian held port of Tartus in Syria on a weekly basis. The ships would bring missiles, replacement parts, and different types of ammunition for the Syrian army.

Arab media outlets have recently published reports that Syria and Russia were looking for an additional port on the Syrian coast, which will serve the Russians in their mission to hasten the pace of the Syrian rearmament.

In the meantime, Assad's army is in full scale retreat in the strategic province of Idlib. Mere days ago, a force from the Jaesh Al Fatah (A coalition or rebel groups including Jabhat al-Nusra) advanced on the Abu Duhur military airfield in southwestern Syria's Iblib province, which borders on Latika. Alwaite and Christian residents of the area have fled to the last remaining Alawite Bantustans along the country's coastline.

Even Turkey, which has so far avoided any action which would strengthen Assad, has had to come to terms with the Russian-Iranian move and the resulting American silence, leading it to launch its own bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria.

During a recent trip to Qatar, Erdogan reached understandings with the Qataris and the Saudis regarding a program to arm Muslim Brotherhood backed rebels who are fighting against ISIS, de-facto fighting both Assad and ISIS.
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delft said:
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International power plays aside it's about time someone significantly bolstered the most legitimate, most genuinely homegrown, and the least bad option in the Syrian civil war - the official Syrian government. Any other faction winning at best results in a failed state and at worse legitimizes violent religious extremists and provides a base for a truly terrorism-based state, a serious threat to the rest of the world. However this development alone is probably not enough to defeat the powers supporting ISIS and their ilk, I hope the US sees what is at stake here and takes more serious, focused steps against ISIS and its supporters.
 
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ShahryarHedayat

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Iran’s Majles will have final say on nuclear deal

'I think the drama will be bigger in my country than in yours,'
Iran's speaker of majles (parliament) says.

Lawmakers’ approval of the deal, which would remove economic sanctions on Iran in return for restrictions on its nuclear program, isn’t assured in either country, though President Obama is expected to win Senate backing after securing the necessary votes on Wednesday. In Iran, some parliamentarians have also demanded a vote, a position apparently supported by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier Thursday.

“It’s the representatives of the people who should decide,” Khamenei told Iran’s Assembly of Experts in Tehran, according to comments posted on his website. “I have no advice for parliament as to how they should assess it or whether they should approve or reject it.”

Khamenei has told President Hassan Rouhani that excluding parliament from the legal approval process “was not expedient,” according to his website. So far, Iranian government officials have said they plan to leave the decision to the Supreme National Security Council, which would then require Khamenei’s final approval.

Iran’s lawmakers will vote on the deal after its special committee completes its review in a few weeks, Larijani said. The likely outcome is unclear, he said, though he personally supports the agreement because it lifts sanctions while still allowing Iran to conduct limited uranium enrichment.

The provision for sanctions to be reimposed in the future is one of the “major and serious faults” that some Iranians have found with the agreement, Larijani said.

“That’s why I said the U.S. continued to play the role of bully even when we were negotiating,” he said. “But as I said, overall it was a good deal because Iran also achieved some of its goals.”

Khamenei said earlier there would be “no deal” if the agreement does not result in the complete lifting of sanctions. If sanctions are only temporarily lifted, Iran will in turn only suspend its nuclear activities rather than carry out the “fundamental measures” outlined in the deal, Khamenei said.
 
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Black Day for coalition: UAE, Bahrain lose 50 soldiers
Associated Press
Published — Saturday 5 September 2015
SANAA: The United Arab Emirates said 45 of its troops were killed in Yemen and Bahrain said it lost five soldiers Friday, the deadliest day for a Saudi-led coalition battling Yemeni Shiite rebels.
The UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said the troops were killed when a rebel missile struck an ammunition depot. On his official Twitter feed, he said the “cowardly attack will not deter us.”
Pro-government Yemeni security officials said the missile strike took place in the province of Marib, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the capital Sanaa. Officials from the media office of the Shiite rebel movement known as the Houthis confirmed they fired a Soviet-era Tochka missile in the area. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
The deaths pointed to the increasingly prominent role of the Emirates on the ground in Yemen’s war — both in troops and hardware — though the government has never made clear the full extent of their role or the numbers of troops involved.
The UAE’s news agency, WAM, initially said 22 members of the military were killed Friday but later reported that 23 more had died of their wounds. It gave no details on their role in the conflict.
In a series of messages on his official Twitter feed, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the powerful crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE armed forces, praised the troops for their sacrifice and said the UAE would continue to support the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen.
“The sons of the UAE continue to show resilience and bravery in support of our Yemeni brothers against injustice and aggression,” he said.
The US-allied Emirates, a federation of seven small Gulf states including Dubai and the oil-rich capital of Abu Dhabi, is one of the most prominent members of the Saudi-led coalition, which aims to roll back gains by the Shiite rebels and their allies in the deeply impoverished Arabian Peninsula country. The Saudi-led and US-backed coalition, made up mainly of Gulf nations, has been launching airstrikes against the rebels since March. But the UAE is the only country that has acknowledged having troops on the ground in Yemen in the conflict.
Yemeni security officials have said that Saudi, Emirati, Egyptian and Jordanian military advisers are training hundreds of fighters at a military base in Aden.
The Houthi rebels took over Sanaa a year ago and soon after swept over other parts of the country, driving President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi into self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia. The Houthis are backed by army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and fighting has raged in multiple parts of the country between those forces and those loyal to Hadi as well as southern separatists and local militias opposed to the Houthis.
Bahrain’s state news agency also reported Friday that five of its soldiers were killed while “defending the southern border of Saudi Arabia.” It didn’t give specifics. Yemen is the only country on Saudi Arabia’s southern border where there is fighting, and Houthis have frequently shelled across the frontier.
The Emirati deaths came amid heavy clashes and intensified coalition airstrikes in Marib province, as the opposing sides gear up for a critical battle over the coming days. Pro-government forces want to clear Marib province of Houthi fighters, then proceed on to neighboring Jawf province to the north then to Saada, the Houthis’ stronghold in the north, the security officials said.
The toll was the Emirates’ highest number of combat casualties since the federation was founded in 1971. About six of its troops were killed fighting as part of the US-led coalition that drove the Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in 1991. At least five other members of the Emirati military have been killed in Yemen this year, and another died during training exercises related to the operation in Saudi Arabia.
On Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry phoned the Emirati foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, after the deaths were announced to express his condolences, WAM said.
The Yemen deployment is part of an increasingly assertive military policy by the UAE in the region. Its warplanes are believed to have carried out strikes against Islamic militants in Libya in coordination with Egypt. The Emirates last month freed a British hostage being held in Yemen in what authorities said was a military intelligence operation. The captive, Robert Douglas Semple, had been kidnapped 18 months earlier by Al-Qaeda in Yemen and was flown out aboard a UAE military aircraft.
Last year, the Gulf nation introduced a law requiring military service for adult males. It created a new national holiday last month, Martyrs Day, to commemorate those killed in the line of duty.
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Associated Press writers Adam Schreck in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Reem Khalifa in Manama, Bahrain contributed to this report.


The Yemeni government said an “accidental explosion” at an arms depot at a military base in the eastern province of Marib killed the 22 Emiratis, but the rebels said their fighters launched a rocket attack that caused the blast.
Coalition ally Bahrain said five of its soldiers were killed in southern Saudi Arabia where they had been posted to help defend the border with war-wracked Yemen, but it gave no details.
The UAE armed forces, in a statement carried by state news agency WAM, did not disclose the circumstances of what was its highest casualty toll of the six-month-old air war.
The Emirati army had previously announced at least eight deaths in Yemen among its ranks.
A total of 33 Yemeni soldiers and coalition forces were killed and dozens of people were wounded in the blast at the base in Safer, 250 km from Sanaa, the pro-Hadi army command said.
A thick plume of black smoke was seen billowing from the base several hours later.
According to military sources, the coalition sent reinforcements to the Safer base this week, including tanks, armored vehicles, troop carriers, rocket launchers and Apache helicopters.
The extra military hardware as well as troop reinforcements aim to boost “the counter-offensive launched by loyalist forces and the coalition to advance on Sanaa,” one military official in Yemen said.
The Yemeni government said the explosion near an Emirati encampment in Safer was caused by “badly stored munitions.”
An initial investigation, however, found that the blast was triggered by a surface-to-surface missile fired by the rebels, one Yemeni military source said.
Coalition jets later on Friday carried out airstrikes on the rebel-held Defense Ministry complex in Sanaa and also targeted arms depots in the north of the capital.
 
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