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ShahryarHedayat
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Iran launches new satellite with success
Fajr was a 50kg imagery Sat. with on-board Gas propellants which gives it the capability to change orbits without the carrier and thus more endurance.
The Fajr sat was put in 400km orbit of the earth and has a life span of 1.5 years
Real time satellite tracking :
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Fajr was a 50kg imagery Sat. with on-board Gas propellants which gives it the capability to change orbits without the carrier and thus more endurance.
The Fajr sat was put in 400km orbit of the earth and has a life span of 1.5 years
Real time satellite tracking :
more pics:
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ShahryarHedayat
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Iran's MOD has unveiled a new domestically-built trainer fighter jet, named Saeqeh 2 (Thunderbolt 2).
''The fighter jet will do close-range cover and backup tactical missions as well as advanced pilot training missions''
''The fighter jet will do close-range cover and backup tactical missions as well as advanced pilot training missions''
ShahryarHedayat
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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.
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Well the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi militia coming to power now in Yemen could do so...or others. it is a nation on the brink of civil war and I believe the Egyptians and others are concerned about the overall situation.
This is what drove the initial Egyptian statement that we are discussing.
If Rebel forces gain the upper hand there near the strait...or of an unsavory group comes to power in Yemen, the threat is real. Those straits are a critical choke point for international commerce.
To punctuate the concern, Germany, Italy, Britain, France, the United States, and Saudi Arabia are all closing down their Embassy operations and evacuating their staff.
Naval Today said:
The Turkish Ada class frigates are very similar to the USS Freedom Class LCS...but better armed, not as high speed, only a single space hanger, and not as much modular space. I like them better actually and wish the US had taken such a route with the LCS...only with two hangers.
antiterror13
Brigadier
Interesting to compare Moudge and 056, roughly the same size and tonnage, but 056 need much less crew size ( 150 vs 60 for 056 )
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
F512 a marvel of modern Turkish engineering
