May be relevant to this thread…

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U.S. to Sell 5,000 Smart Bombs to Israel
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, JERUSALEM

Israel is set to buy 5,000 smart bombs from the United States in one of the Jewish state’s largest weapons deals in recent years, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday.

The $319 million purchase also includes airborne models, guidance units, training bombs and detonators for Israel’s air force, said the paper, citing a U.S. Congress report.

The bombs are all guided by a satellite system, which sends a signal to the devices to adjust their course to the target.

Smart bombs are intended to inflict maximum damage to the target and minimize the effect of the impact outside of the target, so-called “collateral damage”.

According to Haaretz, quoting U.S. defense sources, “the bombs are meant to maintain Israel’s qualitative advantage, and advance U.S. strategic and tactical interests.

Funding will come from U.S. military aid to Israel, which — combined with economic assistance — totals more than $3 billion a year.

The paper said the deal — which includes 500 one-ton bunker busters that can penetrate 2-meter-thick cement walls, 2,500 regular one-ton bombs, 1,000 half-ton bombs and 500 quarter-ton bombs — was easily reached despite the Israelis’ previous use of high explosives against Palestinian targets.

In July 2002, Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential neighborhood in Gaza City to assassinate a local military leader of the radical Hamas group.

That strike provoked international anger as it also killed 14 other Palestinians, among them women and children.

By far the best CGI I have seen on the net in a long long time…

Repost Victor, see above. I’m going to delete your message now.

Whoops… NP

If the MKIs do go to France, all I’ve gots to say is that the spotters best be posting some good stuff on the net.

South African Firm To Buy Pakistan Trainer Aircraft
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, KARACHI

A South African firm has agreed to purchase four more trainer aircraft built by Pakistan after receiving delivery of one such plane here, officials said Sept. 17.

The state-owned Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) signed the sale contract of four Mashak 17-1 aircraft with the Uni Group Holding Private Limited on Thursday, an official statement said.

The PAC delivered one Mashak to the South African company in August after which the contract was signed, it said. The signing ceremony was held during a four-day exhibition of locally-manufactured defense equipment being held here to lure foreign buyers.

Pakistan wants to expand exports of conventional weapons, which stood at $100 million last year.

The exhibition, which ends Sept. 17, attracted 160 delegates from 35 countries around the world.

“We have received a very good response, especially from African and Gulf countries,” the director general of the Defense Export Promotion Organization, Major General Syed Ali Hamid, said.

Pakistan has earlier this year signed a deal with Saudi Arabia to supply 20 Super Mashak, another version of the locally manufactured trainer aircraft, Hamid said.

“We will deliver the Super Mashak aircraft to Saudi Arabia by the end of this year for which the deal have already been made,” he said.

I mean doesn’t it looks like
that Super Nautillus that they have in one of 007’s
episodes Tomorrow Never Die???

I think you’re refering to the USN experimental boat Sea Shadow.