1) Taiwan officially declares independence
2) Taiwan is offered Aegis and their first subs are put into production
3) Cuba becomes democratic after the old man dies and a brief revolution.
4) USA donates billions of dollars and military equipment to Cuba
5) Japan sinks a Chinese sub in Japanese waters
6) US finds a good use for the F-14. The QF-14
7) Russia will crash a fighter at an air show

“India, the region’s largest naval power (and the only country apart from the US and UK to operate aircraft carriers).”

Um, What happened to the French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian, Thai, carriers? Even Russia has a carrier that they take out once every 5 years or so.

“Indian subs of British-Russian manufacture sail keel to keel with Israel subs made in Germany,”

Um, What british built subs? The Type-209s are German built. Does India have a sub I am not aware of?

Too be a defense journalist.

One Bug
Two sidewinders
Ten AMRAAMs
equals one cool pic!

Source = globalsecurity

Two squadrons of A-29s purchased from Brazil
Two squadrons of AT-29s built from kits purchased from Brazil

All extra money put into air defense.

How many different SAM systems does Greece operate?

ASRAD
Crotale NG
OSA-AKM
Tor-M1
Improved Hawk
Patriot PAC 3 (based near Athens)
S-300PMU-1 (based on Crete)

Am I missing any?

Anyone know how many Hawk batteries are in Greek service? I believe all the other missile systems (ASRAD, Crotale NG, OSA-AKM, & Tor-M1) are used to protect mobile army units. Is this correct? Any guess to why there are so many different kinds of these missiles systems in Greek service? Why purchase ASRAD when you have Crotale NG and why purchase Crotale NG when you have Tor-M1? Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to put all that money that was put into buying all the missiles, launchers, training, logistics,etc for ASRAD and Crotale NG and just purchase more Tor-M1 systems since Greece already has that system in service? Greece really likes to operate many different systems that have close to the same capabilities. Logistics must be a huge headache for them. That was a lot of out loud Thinking. Sorry for the on going ramble

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I got a quick question.
How many of these were new builds and how many were bought from surplus Ukraine and Russian stocks?

I think the answer is that two were bought from used from Ukraine and two were bought brand new from Russia but I could be mistaken.

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Positiv-E 2-D shipborne radar

Positiv-ME1 3-D shipborne radar

Mineral-ME shipborne acquisition and target designation radar

Pal-N1 navigation radar

Fregat-MAE family 3-D shipborne radars

Podberezovik-ET1 and Podberezovik-ET2 3-D shipborne radars

Poima-E shipborne radar and target data processing system

Here are some names of their radar systems.