Zitat:Growth rate of Iran defense products sale 75%

Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said that a 75% growth was observed for the first time in the sale of new defense products, IRNA reported.
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Turning to some of the significant projects of the Defense Committee of the Ministry of Defense, he mentioned the design and production of jet boat as well as improvement in the wing and body, electrical systems, motor and supplies of 20 C-130 aircraft as among other achievements.

The minister said that priority is given to expansion of defense cooperation with Islamic, friendly and neighboring states as well as other technologically advanced countries by the Defense Diplomacy Committee of the Ministry of Defense.

Zitat:Army Drill Will Test Hi-Tech Weaponry

TEHRAN, Aug. 16--Twelve divisions of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army will conduct a maneuver next Saturday in several southeastern provinces.
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Qaraei, acting chief commander of the army, told a news conference on Wednesday the maneuver “Zarbat-e Zolfaqar“ has been planned to increase collaboration among operation units and combat readiness.
“The drill will use new and hi-tech heavy weaponry against the enemy and mobilize Basij (volunteer) forces in the form of operation units,“ ISNA quoted him as saying.
Referring to the army capabilities, Qaraei stressed that no army can withstand the Iranian army, the Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC) and Basij forces.
“We have manufactured bullets that can pierce any bulletproof vest,“ he said.
Qaraei noted that the Iranian Army can organize itself rapidly, adding that the army troops have been conducting strenuous drills under tough conditions.
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Zitat:Lark
Kentron
South Africa
Span (ft.)6.89
Length (ft.)7.98
Max. Weight (lbs.)254.5
Max. Speed (kts.)113 (b)
Type Anti-radar, decoy
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(b) Cruising Speed

Zitat:Und für die Historiker gibts obendrauf noch ein kleines Schmankerl. Ne F-86 Sabre der IIAF:
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Zitat:Iran launches military exercises
Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Saturday launched a series of large-scale military exercises aimed at introducing the country's new defensive doctrine, state-run television reported.

The television report said the military exercise would occur in 14 of the country's 30 provinces and could last as long as five weeks.

The first stage of the maneuvers began with air strikes in the southeastern province of Sistan va Baluchistan, the report said.
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Zitat:Schade von modernen Waffen keine Spur,

Zitat:Bild Nr.8 sieht man vorne 3 BMPs und hinten 5 T-72, was ist denn das für eine Formation? Die BMPs wie wir ja alles wissen, sind leicht gepanzert, also muss das eigentlich umgekehrt sein!

Zitat:Ich kann diese Truppen nicht identifizieren, kannst mir sagen ob es sich dabei um Artesh Sepah oder die Basijis handelt?

Zitat:Ich würde mich auf weitere Bilder sehr freuen.

Zitat:DEBKAfile Exclusive: American electronic warfare experts in Israel to find out how Hizballah’s Iranian systems neutralized Israeli EW

August 23, 2006, 3:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
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DEBKAfile on Aug. 23 adds: The American EW experts are interested in four areas. 1. The Israeli EW systems’ failure to block Hizballah’s command and communications and the links between the Lebanese command and the Syria-based Iranian headquarters. 2. How Iranian technicians helped Hizballah eavesdrop on Israel’s communications networks and mobile telephones, including Israeli soldiers’ conversations from inside Lebanon. 3. How Iranian EW installed in Lebanese army coastal radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard Israeli warships, allowing Hizballah to hit the Israeli corvette Hanith. 4. Why Israeli EW was unable to jam the military systems at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which hosted the underground war room out of which Hassan Nasrallah and his top commanders, including Imad Mughniyeh, functioned.
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From DEBKA-Net-Weekly 266:

Until the watershed date of July 12, 2006, when the Hizballah triggered the Lebanon War, Israel was accounted an important world power in the development of electronic warfare systems – so much so that a symbiotic relationship evolved for the research and development of many US and Israeli electronic warfare systems, in which a mix of complementary American and Israeli devices and methods were invested.

In combat against Hizballah, both were not only found wanting, but had been actively neutralized, so that none performed the functions for which they were designed. This poses both the US and Israel with a serious problem in a further round of the Lebanon war and any military clash with Iran.

DEBKAfile’s military sources add: Both intelligence services underestimated the tremendous effort Iran invested in state of the art electronic warfare gadgetry designed to disable American military operations in Iraq and IDF functions in Israel and Lebanon. Israel’s electronic warfare units were taken by surprise by the sophisticated protective mechanisms attached to Hizballah’s communications networks, which were discovered to be connected by optical fibers which are not susceptible to electronic jamming.

American and Israeli experts realize now that they overlooked the key feature of the naval exercise Iran staged in the Persian Gulf last April: Iran’s leap ahead in electronic warfare. They dismissed most the weapons systems as old-fashioned. But among them were the C-802 cruise missile and several electronic warfare systems, both of which turned up in the Lebanon war with deadly effect.