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The optimized version of Iranian S-200 surface-to-air missile has stunned Russian experts.
A senior Iranian military commander said that the country's experts have been able to optimize the Russian-made S-200 anti-aircraft missile system so well that the Iranian version of the system has stunned Russian experts.

Speaking to FNA on Tuesday, Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli said that Iran's air defense specialists have been able to optimize the S-200 surface-to-air missile system to a remarkable extent and Iran plans to change the system's name due to the profound changes it has made in the system.

"These changes have been acknowledged and praised by those who have developed the system (Russians),"the commander stated, adding that the features of the Iranian version of the system are basically different from those of the Russian type.

Meantime, Esmayeeli pointed to the country's radar power, and stated that the Iranian air-defense unit owns systems that can easily monitor and trace all radar-evading and stealth aircrafts.

He noted that Iran's radar capability was proved during the military drills conducted in the last Iranian year (ended on March 20, 2011) when Iran warned two US spy planes which wanted to near the Iranian borders.

In November 2010, Iran successfully test-fired its sophisticated S-200 anti-aircraft missile systems.

Iran's S-200 system is a very long range, medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) system designed to defend large areas from bomber attack or other strategic aircrafts. Each battalion has 6 single-rail missile launchers and fire control radar. It can be linked to other, longer-range radar systems.

Each missile is launched by 4 solid-fueled strap-on rocket boosters. Maximum range is between 200 and 350 km depending on the model. The missile uses radio illumination mid-course correction to fly towards the target with a terminal semi active radar homing phase.
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Will they sell it?
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koti wrote:Will they sell it?
Who will buy it? Not Yindia... we refused by a vastly superior S300 or the Patriot from the US as DRDO's BMD is moving along on expected lines. why buy S200 from Iranians against a domestic system?

I am leaving out the politics out of this, which adds a whole another dimension to this.
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I would take what ever the Iranians say with a bucket of salt. When they unveiled their fighter plane they said it was better than the FA/18 and was comparable to the F-22 in many aspects. All these tall claims are meant for domestic consumption, just like the PAwki claims that their F16s shot down F-22s during the Abbotabad raid
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Mahendra wrote:just like the PAwki claims that their F16s shot down F-22s during the Abbotabad raid
did they really claim that... :rotfl: how did i miss this man...
next they'll claim a man on moon.
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iran has a more indigenous industry compared to pak and much more intellectual resources , but still depending on rus and chinis for high end kit.
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with chinese help, anyone can copy.

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never realized that m1 abbies can take any kind of fuel and operate at low sound, generating 1500hp.
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I never knew that our own HAL has gone to the extent of being out-sourced to manufacture the components for third country. If the news is true, then KUDOS to HAL.
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In August 2003, Malaysia signed a T$900 million contract with Irkut Corp. for 18 SU-30MKMs. Malaysia flies the F/A-18D Hornet, and was offered Boeing’s F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, but chose the SU-30MKM instead. The SU-30MKM is an advanced variant, whose performance involves considerable improvements over SU-30MK/MKK fighters. Canards, stabilizers and fins will be manufactured by India’s HAL Nasik under a $25-30 million value subcontract. According to the contracts in place, Irkut was to deliver all aircraft by the end of 2008, but delivery of the final batch is ongoing.

On May 24/07, a rollout and demonstration ceremony was held for the first 2 Su-30MKM fighters for the Royal Malaysan Airforce (RMAF) at Russia’s Irkutsk Aviation plant. Their fighter fleet will now consist of R/F-5E/F Tiger IIs (to be phased out), F/A-18D Hornets, MiG-29 Fulcrums (until 2015), and SU-30MKMs. The results from their internal training and air combat exercises would be interesting, to say the least.
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As I had imagined long back ..............................

'US should pursue military engagement with India'
"The US should pursue robust strategic and military engagement with India in order to encourage a stable balance of power in Asia that prevents China from dominating the region and surrounding seas," said Lisa Curtis and Dean Cheng, of The Heritage Foundation in an article 'A Strategic vision for US-India Relations'.
And ..................... the original paper:

The China Challenge: A Strategic Vision for U.S.–India Relations
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Slowly and steadily there is a growing clamor to engage India and to castrate the pukes! Equal Equal onlee
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Tajikistan repeats call for Russia to pay for military base
Interesting:
Media reports said that Tajikistan has also been in talks with Washington on a possible lease of the airport, which the United States view as a possible hub for supplying U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Tajik authorities have denied the allegations, saying that talks on the airport are only being held with Russia.
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Big Defence Cut in Pentagon due to Debt crises

Debt Deal Barely Changes DoD Spending Expectations
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I cant believe Global Hawk costs $218 million each!

NY Times Link
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31 American SF Troops Killed In NATO Helicopter Crash In Afghanistan

not enough informatio­n. could be a Pakistani/Iranian rocket or due to weather conditions­. In parts of afghanista­n at altitude odd things happen with helicopter­s... one of the phenomenon­s is called "flying in the pingpong ball" where the helicopter is enveloped in fog or clouds suddenly and is a kind of total white out. This can be pretty spooky when coming over mountain peaks. The terrain is just tough for men and machines. Either way, condolence­s to all the families and my prayers for the troopers. RIP :cry:
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Video of US Chinook being shot down in Afghanistan

(Video might be slow to load as it is on a Chinese website)
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while low production nos do contribute to higher cost, I guess the highly classified sensors on the GHawk make up bulk of its cost .... would be uniquely crafted for the role and low-volume long-lead items too.

khan is pretty good at these niche uber-expensive solutions like hubble telescope mirrors for instance.
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sourab_c wrote:Video of US Chinook being shot down in Afghanistan

(Video might be slow to load as it is on a Chinese website)
That is not the current one that went down. I have seen that video about a year back. It's from another incident.
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They have good amount of leadership in this aspect. They should continue on it.
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For the second time in a row, the Pentagon has lost contact with an experimental hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific, just minutes after it was launched from space
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The challenge of maintaining communication in re-entry - high heat - still remains. This V-2 was expected to resolve some of the problems. Apparently it did not.
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From PopSci:
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HTV-2 in Flight You can't imagine the shutter speed our photographer had to use to capture this shot (kidding). DARPA

Update: DARPA has gone silent regarding HTV-2, but its safe to assume at this point that contact with the hypersonic Falcon vehicle was lost before it fulfilled all of its mission objectives. No word yet on just how much data was collected or how many objectives were completed. More as this develops.

What looked to be a successful second launch of DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic vehicle has potentially taken a turn for the worse if DARPA’s Twitter feed is any indication. After successful launch, separation, contact with handlers on the ground, and entry into glide phase, the last we heard from DARPA via @DARPA_News doesn’t seem to bode well: “Range assets have lost telemetry with #HTV2. More to follow.”

That was almost an hour ago at the time of this posting, and more has not followed. So we don’t know if that translates to a fully successful flight or to some kind of vehicle failure. We’ll update here when we have more info.

HTV-2 was developed with one straightforward objective in mind: travel from anywhere on Earth to anywhere else on Earth in an hour. And with that goal in mind, DARPA has engineered a very fast vehicle. HTV-2 rides to near orbital speeds aboard a Minotaur rocket at which point it separates and enters a powered glide phase as it rides back to Earth at speeds topping Mach 20. That’s roughly 13,000 miles per hour (reportedly it is capable of a top speed approaching 17,000 miles per hour). In other words, fast enough to do New York to L.A. in 12 minutes, or London to Sydney in the aforementioned 60 minutes.

All that is easier said than done, though the benefits doing so aren’t difficult to articulate. One could deliver anything from cargo to warheads to (potentially) people with such a hypersonic vehicle, and HTV-2 is DARPA’s means of testing the technologies that could someday shrink the entire world to a one-hour journey.

Those technologies, however, are complex and as yet difficult to harness, and this wouldn’t be the first Falcon vehicle to end its mission early. During a test flight back in April of last year, DARPA’s first Falcon vehicle was lost nine minutes after launch. It was successfully delivered to its starting point, but engineers lost contact with the vehicle and a failsafe program put it into a controlled dive straight into the ocean.

But DARPA describes the vehicle as a “data truck” due to its heavy sensor payload, and even an abbreviated flight drastically informs the field of hypersonic flight. The agency’s engineers used the data collected from that failed first attempt to tweak the design of their new HTV-2 and its mission, lowering the angle of attack and adjusting its center of gravity.

Those adjustments seemed to be working early in today’s flight, and maybe they worked all the way through. When DARPA tells us something, we’ll tell you. In the meantime, brush up on HTV-2 via a mashup of DARPA vids below.
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Ever seen a soldier bogged down with too much gear.Have a look at the following link.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011 ... -too-much/
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A media report on the sad demise of a Pilot of Red Arrow Team in UK.

The Pilot was killed when he tried to avoid crashing over a crowded place.

Many similar accidents had happened in India in the past and the Pilots involved had sacrificed their life.

But one does not fail to notice the difference in media reporting of such accidents in India after seeing those sterile reports.


Red Arrows pilot killed in crash

A Red Arrows pilot died today when his stricken jet crashed after he made a dramatic attempt to steer it away from nearby houses.

Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, is believed to have tried to eject only after guiding the RAF jet towards a field as it apparently suffered a failure following an aerobatic display.

But he was killed when the jet plunged into a field near the river Stour, just outside Bournemouth.

Flt Lt Egging, who lived in Rutland, Lincs, with his wife Emma, was the first Red Arrows pilot to die in a crash for 33 years.

Flying under the call sign RED 4 he had suddenly peeled away from the other eight Red Arrows as they headed back to Bournemouth international airport after performing at the town's air festival.

The jet flew low over houses and other buildings before crashing into a field near the village of Throop, Dorset, bouncing several times and splitting into two mangled pieces.

Local people who rushed to the scene pulled his body out of the river about a mile from Bournemouth airport.

Group Captain Simon Blake, the Commandant of the RAF’s Central Flying School, said paid tribute to the pilot. He said: “Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, known as 'Eggman’, joined the Team as Red 4 in the autumn of 2010.

“A gifted aviator, he was chosen to fly in the Red 4 slot, on the right hand outside of the famous Diamond Nine formation - an accolade in itself being the most demanding position allocated to a first year pilot.

“Throughout his winter training and the display season to date, his professionalism, skill and humility have shone through.

“A true team player, his good nature and constant smile will be sorely missed by all. In such a close knit team, this tragedy will be keenly felt by his fellow team members, the Reds and all of the engineering and support staff, the Blues.”

The tragedy happened after the RAF Aerobatic Team, better known as the Red Arrows, had given what one spectator described as a "dazzling" performance" at the Bournemouth air festival.

The RAF Hawks had painted pictures of love hearts in the sky with trails of pink smoke, between 12.30pm and 1.30pm.

The nine aircraft then left the area to fly over nearby Christchurch before returning to the airport. But only eight of them returned.

Nick Woods, 36, told how he discovered the pilot's body in the Stour.

Mr Woods was enjoying a barbecue with his family about 300 yards from the river. The dozen or so family and friends, including his parents and his three-year old son Archie, heard the roar of the jet at about 1.50pm.

"It came in so low across the field. I could see it was in trouble," he said.

"I just shouted "Everybody inside!" because I didn't know how far it would spread when it crashed.

"The next moment my friend Finlay shouted 'He's down!'

"It just sounded like an explosion when it hit – no flames but a huge ripping sound. I saw debris flying in the air.

"Finlay and I ran across the field. The Red Arrow was on the bank. We jumped into the water, found the ejector seat, pulled it up, but it was clean – no-one in it.

"I swam across the river and saw the parachute, and that's where I found him.

"He was near a steep bank, in deep water. He was very badly injured, dead. I was pretty shaken.

"Then a female police officer and a search and rescue guy appeared."

Peter Male, whose brother owns the farmland where the jet crashed, said: "The jet was so low over the houses that the pilot must have been trying to crash land in the fields so he did not hit any of the buildings.

"He suffered terrible, terrible injuries."

Shaun Spencer-Perkins, who witnessed the crash from Throop Mill, where he was walking with his wife, said: "I heard a rushing sound and I saw a plane about 50ft above the ground racing across the fields.

"It impacted and bounced across the field, made it across the river about 100 yards away from where we were.

"We ran into the field following the debris trail to the point of impact," he said. "There were huge black marks and the horrendous smell of aviation fuel."

Darren Blakeman, who was watching the Red Arrows display, said: "When only eight of the airplanes landed after the display a big siren went off at the airport. A big yellow fire truck parked in the viewing area rushed off with its blue lights going.

"A police helicopter and a coastguard helicopter were hovering in the air above the site."

Susie Churchill, who lives less than 100 yards from where the aircraft crashed, said: "We see the Red Arrows fly over here every years, so we are all in quite a state of shock," she said.

The Red Arrows were due to fly on every day of the four-day Bournemouth Air Festival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators, and finishes today.

Organisers had been forced to cancel daytime flying displays on Thursday due to bad weather which had caused flash flooding earlier in the week. They said events would continue as scheduled.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We can confirm that we are aware of an incident involving one of the Red Arrows and we are investigating."

The son of an airline pilot, Flt Lt Egging joined the Royal Air Force in 2000 and flew Harrier jump jets before joining the Red Arrows.

He first flew as a teenager having joined the Air Training Corps in Southam, Warks, where he was brought up, and studied Environmental Science at Southampton University, where he was a member of University AIr Squadron and was awarded an RAF bursary.

During his time on the front line, he flew operational missions in Afghanistan in support of ground forces. His wife, Emma, is a museum consultant.

Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, paid tribute to Flt Lt Egging, saying: “He was a gifted aviator who was selected for one of the most demanding flying jobs in the RAF.

“My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Emma and his family and friends at this terrible time.”

The Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows, formed in 1965, have completed over 4,000 displays in 53 countries.

Although Red Arrows jets have been involved in a number of crashes the last fatality was in 1978 when two pilots died after their aircraft struck the ground whilst practising aerobatics

In 1971 four pilots died after two planes collided during the cross-over manoeuvre. Two years earlier, a pilot was killed when his jet hit a tree during a practice flight.

All nine display pilots are fast jet pilots from frontline Royal Air Force squadrons.

Since 1979, the Red Arrows have used the dual control BAE Systems Hawk T1 aircraft.
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New deadly exploosive developed by the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14581097

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19 August 2011
US military develops 'bigger bang' explosive materialBy Matt McGrath

Science reporter, BBC World Service

Conventional missiles rely on kinetic energy, but the new ones will also use chemical energy
The US Office of Naval Research says that it has successfully tested a new type of explosive material that can dramatically increase weapons' impacts.

Missiles made from the high density substance can explode with up to five times the energy of existing armaments.

The material mixes metals and polymers and is said to be as dense as steel but have the strength of aluminium.

US Navy scientists say that projectiles made from the new compound are less likely to kill innocent bystanders.

Missiles, artillery shells and other military munitions are normally constructed with a steel casing that simply contains the high explosives within.

This new approach from the US Office of Naval Research replaces the inert casing with High-Density Reactive Materials (HDRM) that combine and explode only when the projectile hits the target.
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Now, a laser to detect roadside bombs.
Washington: Michigan State University scientists have developed a laser that could detect roadside bombs – the deadliest enemy weapon encountered in Iraq and Afghanistan. The laser, which has comparable output to a simple presentation pointer, potentially has the sensitivity and selectivity to cover large areas and detect improvised explosive devices – weapons that account for around 60 percent of coalition soldiers’ deaths.
The detection of IEDs in the field is extremely important and challenging because the environment introduces a large number of chemical compounds that mask the select few molecules that one is trying to detect, said lead researcher Marcos Dantus, chemistry professor and founder of BioPhotonic Solutions.
“Having molecular structure sensitivity is critical for identifying explosives and avoiding unnecessary evacuation of buildings and closing roads due to false alarms,” he said.
The invention has been published in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters.
Source:http://zeenews.india.com/news/technolog ... 32037.html
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A breathtaking shot that I came across:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/ ... 4a760n.jpg

The shot is taken by a French Mirage-2000 pilot. The description ran as follows.
Waiting for the clearance.
Nellis AFB, Nevada, USA, 2006
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Tiger Gripen! This is not a PS job but an actual aircraft of Czech Air Force.

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even the Yars was kept a secret from media atleast before its first launch. this could perhaps be some new compact icbm with a long range hypersonic re-entry vehicle that flies low and hard.
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Its a new serial production yars with a new type of warhead bus that was being tested.
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110928/167212598.html

The test concerned a new warhead bus for the solid-fuel RS-24, according to a military source.

"The new multiple warhead section would upgrade the capabilities of this missile to take on future missile defense systems," the source told RIA Novosti.
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Singha wrote: this could perhaps be some new compact icbm with a long range hypersonic re-entry vehicle that flies low and hard.
Not sure what prompted you to say that but may be your prediction could be true , As vedomosti has been reliable http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/artic ... /29/268279
The new missile is small, making it difficult to detect missile launchers, and thereby increases the stability of the Strategic Missile Forces fighting in the deployment of missile defense, said a source in the missile industry.
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