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  • in reply to: Britain Opposes Common EU Defense Fund #2575903
    Vaiar
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    The management of a private company has no constituents and is therefore free to do whatever it likes provided it is within in the laws of the relevant judiciary. If it feels laying back and living the easy life, it should go ahead and explain it to its shareholders if it wants to remain on the job. Politicians have a moral responsability to be sparing with the funds placed in their hands. Of course, witnessing the Brussels money guzzling circus many feel too important to have such moral constraints bothering their corrupt minds. Nevertheless, you seem quite content with the socialist mindset of throwing money at problems in the vain hope of them disappearing like snow under the spring sun without addressing the deep structural reasons causing them.

    Speaking of Dutch politicians, I do feel they lead much more sober lives than many of their peers (especially those coming from countries to the south of the Netherlands).

    in reply to: Britain Opposes Common EU Defense Fund #2575918
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    Great news that Britain opposes another attempt by the Brussels based bureaucratic kleptocracy to waste more taxpayers’ €uros on cocktail parties and other career enhancing networking events for the Brussels elite.

    in reply to: Iran makes Misagh-2. #1818963
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    Where do you see that ‘thungsten rod’ then?

    in reply to: Iran makes Misagh-2. #1819086
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    The video in question was very obviously filmed by Islamic-Fundimenatalist terrorists. I don’t think that anyone would be surprised if the missile fired in the video was supplied directly by Iran.

    The video posted was meant to highlight the role (and presence) of helicopters on the modern battlefield, which serve in transport, recce and fire support roles. If the enemy has the possession of a substantive quantity of such missiles, which are easily handled and carried by infantry units, it can force your helicopters to stop operating on the battlefield. Furthermore, low flying aircraft (such as the A-10, AC-130 etc) are also under serious threat and easy prey for the more modern variants of these missiles.
    We clearly saw the effects of limited numbers of MANPADS in the 1980s in Afghanistan, in the 1990s in Bosnia and currently in other low intensity wars, such as Iraq and Chechnya.

    in reply to: Iran makes Misagh-2. #1819116
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    houlder fired missiles in this category are loosing their military signifcance.

    Yeah sure, take a look at this video from last month:

    http://www.ogrish.com/archives/2006/january/ogrish-dot-com-apache_shot_down_claim.wmv

    in reply to: Indian Naval MiG-29K v/s Cinese Su-30MKK2 #2603192
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    If you have no reliable stats, then how can you make such strong statements a priori?

    in reply to: Russia to sell 29 air defense systems to Iran #1821939
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    Literally interpreted, they should also have withdrawn from the Golan Heights at the VERY least.

    At the VERY least Syria could have offered peace, a stop on artillery strikes, a stop on aid to guerilla attacks and a commitment to stop building constructions in the Jordon river that would cut off Israel’s water supply in exchange for the Golan heights. On June 19th 1967 the Israeli cabinet decided that it was willing to exchange the Golan heights with Syria for such a comprehensive peace deal. However, Syria was unwilling, which is logical for a dictatorship which partly claims legitimacy by constantly hammering on Israel’s complete destruction. One could not simply accept such a humiliating peace deal when one has created expectations about the opponents elimination by the powerful United Arab Command for two decades.

    in reply to: Russia to sell 29 air defense systems to Iran #1821974
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    UNSCR 242

    Thought you would come up with this so often abused resolution 😀

    Search it on the internet (the English version); this resolution calls for

    “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.”

    without specifying which territories, when and how this should be executed. The resolution was deliberately left vague in the diplomacy following the Six Day War as to let all parties comply with it. In fact literally interpreted, Israel long complied with it by returning the Sinai to Egypt.

    in reply to: Russia to sell 29 air defense systems to Iran #1822030
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    Just take a look at the pre-1967 jointly hated status of those “borders” and their near mythological post-1967 status. Then, which resolutions are you aiming at concerning these 1967-“borders”? There is no resolution that explicitly called the warring parties to return to some clearly (within this resolution) defined pre-war borders (i.e. with a super clear map about which there can be no confusion) with an explicit time table and penalties for not obliging to this (non-existant) resolutions letter in time or on the ground.

    in reply to: Russia to sell 29 air defense systems to Iran #1822047
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    Perhaps SOC, before insisting on those 1967 “borders” all the time, you could first consider how these “borders” came into existence and what was their perceived status among both Israel and Arab countries prior to 1967 and how this suddenly changed after the Six Day War. Have a nice search, it will be very interesting for you to discover why no Israeli government takes these arbitrarily drawn armistice lines of ’48-’49 very seriously (in a sense of strictness) as a point of departure for peace negotiations. 😉

    in reply to: Video of Irans Silkworm missiles being tested. #1822199
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    What was the target they were fired at? Some old ship or were they just fired into the sea?

    in reply to: TRIGAT LR #1822526
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    The site of the French parliament has several documents indicating that there is no expected production for the future and that the missile is effectively dead. (MR version of course, not the LR)

    17 novembre 2004.

    Néanmoins, selon les industriels concernés par ce secteur, les systèmes de missiles apparaissent aujourd’hui comme la variable d’ajustement du budget d’équipement des armées : avec l’annulation du programme de missile antinavire du futur (ANF), l’arrêt de la revalorisation du Roland, l’absence de production des projets Trigat et Milas, pourtant développés, il est vrai que ce secteur a subi des choix qui lui ont été très défavorables.

    le 6 novembre 2000, interesting points boldened

    La complication insupportable de l’équation financière suscitée par les décisions britannique et hollandaise a en fait servi de révélateur et a conduit à une remise en cause de l’utilité même du programme, au moins dans sa configuration actuelle.Dans le cadre de la préparation de la prochaine loi de programmation militaire, une réflexion de fond est actuellement engagée sur les systèmes d’armes antichars dont la France aura besoin à l’échéance 2010/2015.

    Cette réflexion doit intégrer :

    · l’évolution de la menace à travers les caractéristiques possibles de la dissémination des chars lourds dotés de blindages réactifs (type T-80 U par exemple) ;

    · l’intégration de la trame antichars dans les systèmes d’armes capables de détruire des chars (Leclerc, obus Aced) ;

    · l’évolution de la trame antichars elle-même, reposant actuellement sur le trio Eryx (courte portée) – Milan (moyenne portée) – Hot (longue portée).

    Il est possible que cette réflexion conduise à terme à proposer un programme de substitution (missile filoguidé Trigan) ou bien un achat sur étagères (missile américain Javelin, missile israélien Gill ou Small spike).

    En tout état de cause, le programme Trigat MP dans sa définition actuelle ne pourra pas être maintenu. Outre son financement devenu impossible après le retrait des partenaires, il présentait au moins deux défauts majeurs de conception :

    · le poids excessif du poste de tir pour un transport à dos de fantassin (16,2 kg seul et 26 kg avec la lunette thermique sans compter la masse de la munition en emballage technique de 18,2 kg) ;

    · son incapacité à évoluer d’une attaque frontale du char à une attaque par le toit, seule solution pour détruire les chars futurs dotés de protection réactive de 3ème génération.

    Pour légitimes qu’elles soient devenues, on peut tout de même s’étonner de la lenteur avec laquelle les décisions ont été prises en France en matière d’armes antichars alors que certains pays, comme le Royaume-Uni, ont réagi plus vite. Cette moindre réactivité est coûteuse, tant au regard du financement direct des programmes qu’au regard des restructurations industrielles qu’elle engendre inévitablement.

    in reply to: TRIGAT LR #1822540
    Vaiar
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    Army Technology has a page on it:

    http://www.army-technology.com/projects/lr_trigat/

    in reply to: The greatest submarine design ever. #2070739
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    Now with modern ultra quite sub like Scorpene,U-212/214 & Amur the SSK still remains the undisputed leaded in Lotoral water , Even the USN acknowledges the fact.

    Where do they acknowledge that SSK’s triumph SSN’s anytime in coastal waters? From the Swedish Gotland, USN exercises against Chilean U-209’s and a renewed emphasis on ASW; we can only conclude that the USN regards the SSK as a serious opponent capable of disrupting operations a theater of conflict, but absolutely not that the SSK beats the SSN on average in such circumstances.

    in reply to: The greatest submarine design ever. #2070836
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    yet the Indians always have to make sure they are best.

    Oh oh, never criticize the ego’s of nationalists… 😀 They may not take lightly comments about their “fairly objective and well-balanced” posture. :diablo:

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