The international bully is back, first threat with gas and now with “Bears”.
:dev2: is back…

US never stops their recon/bombers patrol – what makes them your logic?

You forgot the link 😉 – http://ars.strizhi.info/2007/05/29/62/
This is Zaporozhye (?spell?) repair facility in Ukraine.

To revive a nice thread I’ll post the pic of Tornado F3 intercepting Tu-142 at last week (Vologda – named for city, bottom pic)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1178814276/img/1.jpg

Nuclear Submarine Dismantlement Progress

I’ll translate some from http://www.worldnavy.info/list/iran.html
1200 t, 88m length, 30 knots speed, 2×2 C-802, 1×1 HQ-7, 1×2 100-mm gun and helipad.
It’s mentioned that it built in 2005 on base of Vosper MKV although its smaller and slower so most of sources mentioned it not like destroyer (like Iran said), but frigate or even corvette.
Here Alvant ship of original project http://www.worldnavy.info/photogallery/corvettes/vosper-mk5_1.html and http://www.worldnavy.info/specification/corvettes/vosper_mk5_alvant.html

Azerbaijan bought from Ukraine several Mig-29 (9-13 version) with 2 UB versions. Planes were modernized (new navigation system) at Lvov.



photos from airforce.ru

What is the strength of Iranian air defence forces today – missile types and numbers?

Long range: ~10 S-200VE Vega launchers (probably modernized by Belarus).
Mid-range: ~150 Hawks (most of them probably modernized by Iranians, but repaired by them too – average potential).
45 НQ-2J and unknown number of Iranian clones named Sayad.
24-30 SA-6, modernized by Russians.
Low range: 29 Tor-M1, 30 Rapiers and unknown number of HQ-7/FM-80.

Also 1000-1700 man-portable surface-to-air missile systems:
200 Strela-3;
250 Strela-2M;
190 HN-5A (Chinese clone of Strela-2);
100 Igla-1;
50 Stingers;
50 RBS-70.

Also 1500-1700 AA guns:
80-100 ZSU-57-2;
50-190 57-mm S-60;
50-95 40-mm Bofors L-70;
250 37-mm 61-K and it’s Chinese analogs Type-55;
up to 100 35-mm Oerlikon (24 Skyguard systems);
75 ZSU-23-4 Shilka;
250-500 ZU-23-2 (local production);
large quantities of 14.5-mm ZPU-4 and ZPU-2.

Also numbers are impressive, actually nothing to impress USAF or even IsrAF.