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Syria received the new Russian Su-24M2 all-weather attack aircrafts

Armed forces of the Syrian Arab Republic received the new SU-24M2 all-weather attack aircrafts from Russia, that reported by

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The upgraded SU-24M2 front-line bombers were transferred from presence of Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation within rendering military and technical assistance of the Syrian Army in fight against terrorist group “Islamic State”.

According to unconfirmed information, Syria already received two front SU-24M2 front-line bombers and further 8 more aircrafts will be transferred in addition.

The SU-24M2 is a front-line bombers represents further (after SU-24M) upgrade of the front-line bombers of the SU-24 of Russian Air Force.

The Su-24M2 bombers have been retrofitted with new equipment and systems at the VP Chkalov Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO), to enhance their capabilities and improve their combat efficiency.

NAPO has upgraded the Su-24M2 aircraft with improved avionics, including GPS and the Russian equivalent GLONASS, and a head-up display (HUD) and visor, under a three-year contract, as part of a national defence order for 2009.

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Built in Kiel in Germany by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, the first submarine of the Egyptian navy, a type 209-1400 SSK, today began its sea trials.

The first of an order of two submarines, confirmed with option for two more, the Type 209 is a diesel electric submarine of new generation that will build the capacity of the Egyptian navy.

The submarine has no anaerobic capacity, but has capacity to launch Harpoon missiles, making it a formidable weapon.

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More ‘Fencers’ for Syria:

The embattled Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) has received the first examples from a new batch of Sukhoi Su-24M strike aircraft from Russia. TASS says Syria previously had 11 Su-24s in service.

According to Sputnik, a state-owned Russian news agency, the latest delivery of two aircraft was part of a defense contract that was signed between Damascus and Moscow back in 2009.

Sputnik quotes Al-Masdar News, an Arabic news site, which reports that the first two jets will be joined by another eight aircraft in future.

The upgraded Sukhois are described in the Russian press report as being of the Su-24M2 variant, and were apparently transferred from Russian stocks. Production of the variable-geometry strike aircraft ended in around 1992.

However, the same article also quotes Yakov Kedmi, described as a former high-ranking official in the Israeli intelligence services, who says the aircraft’s equipment has been upgraded ‘with the SVP-24 special computing subsystem designed to increase bombing precision.’

This latter indicates that the sub-variant is actually the Su-24M SVP-24, and not the rival Su-24M2.

The privately owned Gefest & T Company developed the Su-24 SVP-24 upgrade in light of combat experience gained by the Russian Air Force in the Chechen campaign. A first modernized Su-24M SVP-24 was tested beginning in 1998 and the Russian Air Force commissioned the upgrade into service in 2008. To date, aircraft from the air bases at Morozovsk and Shagol (Chelyabinsk) have been upgraded to SVP-24 standard and others are to found at the Lipetsk test center.

Described as a low-cost upgrade, the SVP-24 improves navigational accuracy and allows free-fall bombs to be delivered with accuracy similar to that of precision-guided weapons.

Meanwhile, Sukhoi developed the Su-24M2 mid-life upgrade. The first deliveries to the Lipetsk center were made in early 2004, but the Russian Ministry of Defense only ordered the upgrade of 24 aircraft, which are now based at Khurba.

Reportedly three times as expensive as the SVP-24, the Su-24M2 includes an upgraded navigation and targeting system with a new computer, and a new inertial navigation system including a satellite navigation receiver.

Previously, a number of aircraft from SyAAF stocks were sent to the ARZ-514 repair plant at Rzhev to undergo the Su-24M2 upgrade, these being designated as Su-24MK2 for export.

It is therefore likely that the latest deliveries to Syria do indeed involve the Su-24M2, rather than the Su-24 SVP-24, and that these aircraft were taken from Russian Air Force stocks. Indeed, they may involve some of the same aircraft from the Khurba regiment that were previously deployed as part of the Russian air contingent in Syria.

The SyAAF is badly in need of new equipment. According to Sputnik, ‘in the past month the effort against the Islamists has resulted in the loss of two of its aircraft’. Examples of the MiG-21 (July 14) and L-39ZO (July 20) have both been confirmed as lost in recent fighting.

Furthermore, after Russia downsized its combat air contingent in Syria earlier this year, the SyAAF is being expected to take up some of the burden. The beleaguered air arm is reportedly now flying up to 30 sorties a day.

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Israel’s Ministry of Defense unveils new Eitan wheeled armored personnel carrier

The Israel’s Ministry unveiled on Monday the IDF’s first wheeled armored personnel carrier (APC). The platform will soon enter service, joining the tracked Namer APC to eventually replace the aging and vulnerable M113 platforms. Thar reported by jpost.com.
The Defense Ministry’s Tank Administration announced that it had built the first prototype of the the APC, dubbed Eitan, after completing the development stage.
The development process was informed by “lessons learned from Operation Protective Edge” against Hamas in Gaza, in 2014, the Ministry added.
The eight by eight wheel vehicle will be powered by a 750 horsepower engine, and will have an active protection system to intercept RPG and anti-tank missile threats.
It will be able to reach speeds of up to 90 kilometers an hour, and ferry infantry soldiers from one battle sector to another, while traveling along roads without the need for military trailer services.
It can also travel through difficult terrain, according to the Defense Ministry.
Fleets of Eitan APCs will join the Namer, the most heavily fortified APC in the world, enabling the IDF to gradually phase out the thousands of 1970s-era IDF M113 APCs, which proved to be highly vulnerable to armor-piercing projectiles in Gaza.
Brig.-Gen. Baruch Matzliah, commander of the Tank Administration, told reporters on a conference call that the Eitan is a multi-purpose fighting vehicle, which will have a remote controlled gun and missile launcher that can be operated without crews leaving the vehicle.
“This does not replace the Namer. It travels quickly on roads between sectors. It will work together with the Namer, allowing us to engage faster,” he said.
The Eitan will be less fortified than the Namer but its faster speeds mean the IDF will be able to move ground forces between north and south, at much higher speeds. At the same time, Baruch said, its conventional armor and Trophy active protection system will keep the vehicle safe from shoulder-fired missile threats.
The Tank Administration and the IDF Ground Forces began a series of tests in recent days involving the Eitan prototype.
“The Eitan will be the most advanced and fortified wheeled fighting vehicle in the world,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.”
The Eitan will turn into a family of APCs, which will include a vehicle for transporting 12 combat soldiers while being able to conduct strikes on the battlefield using a roof-mounted gun and missiles.

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Iran Improves Its Outdated Air Defenses

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Iran received

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in May, and it is getting ready to put them to use. Satellite imagery provided by AllSource Analysis shows intensive construction underway at an air defense base near Tehran to accommodate the systems. The layout of the new construction at the base appears to be notably different from those of existing air defense positions in Iran, and the base's location indicates that it may not be a permanent S-300 station, but a training facility.

The base, near the east side of Tehran in the Afsariyeh neighborhood, is surrounded by other military facilities. Among them are the barracks of the 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade and the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' cyber unit. The S-300, however, protects airspace up to 200 kilometers (124 miles) away. Its position near Tehran, from where it could protect both the country's capital and key nuclear facilities farther away, would therefore make sense for multiple reasons.

But based on previous activity at the facility, the particular location for this deployment may relate more to an intended training purpose than to a plan to establish an S-300 air defense bubble over Tehran. The base used to host the older Soviet-made S-200 air defense system — known under its NATO designation as the SA-5 — but never showed any activity indicating that it was an operational air defense position. It is more likely that the base was a training facility used by the air defense branch of the Iranian army. A similar facility for S-300 systems would undoubtedly follow this path, too.

For this reason, the facility will be crucial to Iran's efforts to overhaul its largely outdated air defense infrastructure, including the S-300 systems from Russia, almost a decade after the initial signing of the contract in 2007. Iran also is not wasting any time: A month ago, the construction had not even begun. As more S-300 systems are delivered to Iran throughout the year, construction will likely start at other military facilities across the country to provide a permanent home for the air defense batteries. Those locations will shed more light on exactly how Iran intends to establish its air defense posture in relation to its population centers, the Persian Gulf, and its political, military and nuclear facilities.

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