Israel is upgrading it's F-15I jets with a new radar, the APG-82(V) that's also being fitted to US F-15E. The article talks about a comprehensive system upgrade to cater for a delay in F-35 deliveries. Those israeli Eagles will continue to provide some great military capability to the IDF.
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I have been reading several news items about developments in Yemen including a larger article in my Dutch paper.
Directly available is this item from Zero Hedge ( ) but that concerns mostly the position of US.
My question is: What is Saudi Arabia doing. Is its court preoccupied by the approaching death of the King and does it do nothing?
Directly available is this item from Zero Hedge ( ) but that concerns mostly the position of US.
My question is: What is Saudi Arabia doing. Is its court preoccupied by the approaching death of the King and does it do nothing?
ShahryarHedayat
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Israeli TV shows ‘Iranian missile’ that ‘can reach far beyond Europe’
Satellite images taken outside Tehran feature first look at long-range missile newly developed by Iran, TV report says
iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a warhead “far beyond Europe,” and placed it on a launch pad at a site close to Tehran, an Israeli television report said Wednesday, showing what it said were the first satellite images of the missile ever seen in the West.
It stressed that the missile could be used to launch spacecraft or satellites, but also to carry warheads.
The Channel 2 news report showed satellite imagery documenting what it said was Iran’s “very rapid progress” on long-range missile manufacture.
It showed one photograph of a site near Tehran, which it said the West had known about for two years, where Iran was working on engines for its long-range missiles.
It then showed a satellite photograph of a second site, nearby, which featured a launch pad, with the 27-meter missile on it — an Iranian missile “never seen before” by the West.
The missile is capable of taking a manned spacecraft or satellite into space, the TV report said.
It is also capable of carrying a conventional or non-conventional warhead “far beyond Europe,” the report added.
The TV report said the satellite images were taken by the Eros B commercial Earth observation satellite, which was designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries, launched in 2006, and is owned by the Israeli firm ImageSat International.
Israel has long charged that Iran is working toward a nuclear weapons capability, and has publicly opposed any negotiated accommodation with Iran that would leave it with a uranium enrichment capability for potential nuclear weapons use.
Satellite images taken outside Tehran feature first look at long-range missile newly developed by Iran, TV report says
iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a warhead “far beyond Europe,” and placed it on a launch pad at a site close to Tehran, an Israeli television report said Wednesday, showing what it said were the first satellite images of the missile ever seen in the West.
It stressed that the missile could be used to launch spacecraft or satellites, but also to carry warheads.
The Channel 2 news report showed satellite imagery documenting what it said was Iran’s “very rapid progress” on long-range missile manufacture.
It showed one photograph of a site near Tehran, which it said the West had known about for two years, where Iran was working on engines for its long-range missiles.
It then showed a satellite photograph of a second site, nearby, which featured a launch pad, with the 27-meter missile on it — an Iranian missile “never seen before” by the West.
The missile is capable of taking a manned spacecraft or satellite into space, the TV report said.
It is also capable of carrying a conventional or non-conventional warhead “far beyond Europe,” the report added.
The TV report said the satellite images were taken by the Eros B commercial Earth observation satellite, which was designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries, launched in 2006, and is owned by the Israeli firm ImageSat International.
Israel has long charged that Iran is working toward a nuclear weapons capability, and has publicly opposed any negotiated accommodation with Iran that would leave it with a uranium enrichment capability for potential nuclear weapons use.
Delft, take a look at those straits. They are only 20 miles wide.
Yemen does not need a Navy to shut them down. All they need are ASMs with the range necessary.
As it is, in answer to your question, Yeman does have Tarantula Corvettes, 8 Osa Missile Boats, and ten modern 100 ft. fast attach craft (recently built by Austal). That force is more than sufficient to augment any land based ASMs, and could, itself close the strait.
I believe this is what Egypt is concerned about given the unrest and political change in Yemen.
But Jeff, who would provide the Houthi's with anti-ship missiles or deliver the Yemeni navy into their hands? Or suppose that they would try to close Bab el Mandeb with a large international naval presence nearby that is concerned with combating the Somali pirates?
Don't know if this was posted in this thread before, but it looks like Iran have an different approach in taking down helicopter. They are using a shoulder fire 20mm rifle as an anti-helicopter weapon. I am pretty sure cost was a major factor in procuring this weapon, since manpad are a bit expensive. I think their philosophy for this weapon is to ambush low-speed, low flying or hovering helicopter with a team of such rifleman and the helicopter would not know where they were being fire at since there is no smoke trail and no IR homing
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
against a armored transport or attack helicopter I doubt it would be as effective as a MANPAD. If they were attacking a unarmored chopper or one parked on the ground maybe.