Defence Policy
Defence practice is appalling because defence policy is bad. It
stems from a total failure of politicians to get a grip of a corrupt monopoly
manufacturer and a corrupt tripartite military management.
F16 Versus Woodpecker
A woodpecker takes on an F16 on a training flight. The
woodpecker takes a beating.
F-35 From Northrop Grumman
Is seriously good kit. Northrop Grumman do not
mention the price but you can't afford one.
Harriers On The Skids
Gun Entry Shot Wound Made By A .223 NATO Round
He is not going to sit down for a while.
Foxbat or
Mig-25
Foxbat looks rather impressive. One of them
escaped and went to Japan years ago. The Americans took it apart to see what
made it tick. They were impressed by the forgings in the engines. The
electronics were not all that.
Iraq Going Wrong
Attack with overwhelming force to get a quick victory. That
bit worked. Taking it was easy. Holding it is another ball game. Stealing
the oil is not going too well either.
Intelligence
Explained
Fred explains air power really but the intelligence aspect is
there too.
QUOTE
Now, the word “intelligence” sounds much better than
“bureaucratized clandestine confusion,” which is more accurate. The
intelligence agencies have enshrouded themselves in an aura of inexorable
usually fatal infallibility. (“My name is Bond…Fred Bond.”) This is good PR.
It is little else.
These are the same intelligence agencies, remember, that
didn’t know where the Japanese fleet was in 1941 despite rumblings of war,
agencies that were taken by surprise by the North Korean attack in 1950, and
then by the Chinese entry into that war, that didn’t anticipate the
behaviour
of the Vietnamese in that war, despite Bernard Fall’s books and the
highly documented experience of the French. When the military made a
well-executed raid into Hanoi to free American prisoners at Son Tay, the
intel people hadn’t noticed that the prisoners had been moved. They were
surprised when the Berlin Wall went up, and when it came down. They failed
to foresee the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Their reason for existence was
to know about the Soviet Union.) They missed on 9/11. Earlier, when the Air
Force bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, it was because the spooks
didn’t know where the embassy was that day. (Granted, embassies are hard to
locate. They roll about on wheels, creep down alleys at night, and wear
dark-collared clothing, that sort of thing.) The intel weenies also didn’t
foresee the behaviour of either Iraqis or Afghans, despite great archives of
historical evidence (unless you think the US knew about these upcoming
messes and invaded anyway). And so on.
UNQUOTE
You do not have to
believe Fred. You do not have to believe anyone. But look at anything
classified SECRET in the Public Records Office and wonder why.
Israel
fourth largest weapons exporter
QUOTE
Israel
has passed Britain to become the world's fourth largest exporter of
weapons, Defence Ministry Director-General Pinchas Bucharis said on
Sunday. Israel exported a total $4 billion in defence exports
in 2007, Bucharis said. The United States, Russia and France lead the
world's list of exporters. The Defence Ministry held a special
session on Sunday to present to arms dealers and security export
companies details of a new law set to go into effect at the end of
the month regarding the supervision of defence
exports.
UNQUOTE
Killing people is an industry. Do they
care? Not a chance.
Lions, Donkeys
and Dinosaurs
By Lewis Page is a first rate book and a
strategic review. He tells us that the men are over worked and under paid while
hundreds of very senior officers do little or nothing except demand more
expensive and useless toys for their old regiments.
Military Procurement Is Grossly Corrupt
This is about the American air force in particular but applies equally to the
American military and English ditto.
QUOTE
How Taxpayers Finance Fantasy
Wars
Like much of the rest of the
world, Americans know that the US automotive industry is in the grips of what
may be a fatal decline.............. A similar, if far less well
known, crisis exists when it comes to the military-industrial complex. That
crisis has its roots in the corrupt and deceitful practices that have long
characterized the high command of the Armed Forces, civilian executives of the
armaments industries, and Congressional opportunists and criminals looking for
pork-barrel projects, defence installations for their districts, or even bribes
for votes.............
It is hard to imagine any sector of the American economy more
driven by ideology, delusion, and propaganda than the armed services. Many
people believe that our military is the largest, best equipped, and most
invincible among the world's armed forces. None of these things is true, but our
military is, without a doubt, the most expensive to maintain. Each year, we
Americans account for nearly half of all global military spending, an amount
larger than the next 45 nations together spend on their militaries annually.
UNQUOTE
An army needs men with
rifles and that is about it. The procurement system is manipulating
politicians nearly as much as Zionist Jews.
Nuclear
Submarines And Trident
Do we need another generation of nukes? Yes! Why? Lewis
Page explains all.
Wizard Prang At Kandahar
It really did go off. I would have
ejected before the flames started licked round the cockpit.
Pentagon
plans to conduct warfare in world’s largest cities over the
next 100 year
QUOTE
Weapons that take
out one floor of a city building, but leave the structure standing.
Robot spies that look like dragonflies that can fly into your
apartment to scope its contents. Intensity sound transmitters -
already tentatively deployed in the United States - to cause
excruciating pain to crowds of thousands. Sensors that can "see"
every person in an apartment building, and take out those targeted.
The global spread of mega-cities, largely shanty towns of the
dispossessed in poorer nations, and the ruler's unease at growing
public discontent even in the developed world, have caused Pentagon
planners and their hip-joined private contractors to conclude that
urban warfare is the future.
UNQUOTE
The American Department of
Defence has always liked high tech widgets. Defence contractors love
them and the high priced contracts that go with them. House clearing
the old fashioned way is not fun.
Red Army
The Red Army is not a fun firm to be with. It is not like my
outfit.
Royal Navy Kills Pirates In
The Gate of Tears
QUOTE
Just
this Tuesday, in fact, Royal Marine Commandos in sea boats
got into a gunfight with the crew of a small pirate dhow
which had previously attempted to seize a Danish merchantman not
far away. Having been fired on by the foolhardy freebooters as
they approached, the Marines killed two of the pirates and the
rest surrendered smartly - but this doesn't signal the end of
piracy in the area. Indeed, the following day, even as the news
of the success broke, a Turkish tanker
was seized in the very same waters. Somali and Yemeni
buccaneers are a particular problem for international trade as
they are ideally situated to prey on traffic passing through the
Bab el Mandeb ("the Gate of Tears") - the narrow strait at the
southern end of the Red Sea, which carries all the traffic
between the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean....... Another
well-known hotspot, for instance, is the Singapore Strait.....
Nowadays piracy off the Somali coast is endemic, with gunmen in
speedboats seizing entire ships as often as once a week - then
often holding them for ransom in the infamous pirate port of
Eyl. (So far there isn't all that much reselling of ships and
cargoes, apparently. Ransoms are seen as simpler and more
profitable.)
UNQUOTE
The Royal Navy got lucky. A frigate
really is not the right option for sorting pirates with speed
boats. Helicopters properly armed are. This is another time
to play Spot The Agenda. The RN likes big
warships, relevant or not. NB the writer, Lieutenant Page is not
an embittered naval rating turned communist subversive.
PS Here is more from the same officer:-
Royal Navy won't
fight pirates 'in case they claim asylum'
Royal Navy plans world's first running-jump jet
Analysis Could pen-sized
GPS jammers paralyse UK shipping?
(Analysis Navy sonar dolphin
'massacre' - the facts
Royal Navy warships could run on sunflower oil - if fresh
Analysis Were the snatched
Brit sailors in 'disputed waters'?
Analysis US-Iranian naval
clash: Radio trolls probably to blame
Comment New BAE destroyer
launches today on the Clyde
Video Royal Navy presses
IT Crowd for nuclear missile 'servers'
Russian T34 Surfaces In Good Working Order
It went for a swim during the war. Now it is out.
Security
Outfits
Lefties don't like them. It goes
with the territory. We don't like left wing government criminals with mass
extermination programmes. That is part of the fun too.
Simo Häyhä - Super Sniper
QUOTE
Simo Häyhä (December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002), nicknamed "White Death" (Russian:
Белая смерть,
Belaya Smert;
Finnish:
Valkoinen Kuolema;
Swedish:
den Vita Döden;
German:
der weiße Tod) by the
Red Army,
was a Finnish
marksman.
Using a standard
iron-sighted, bolt action rifle in the
Winter War,
he has the highest recorded number (505) of confirmed kills in any major war.[1][2]
UNQUOTE
505 confirmed plus another 200 with a submachine gun means the boy done good.
The SMG also means close quarters every time. 50 yards is about it with one.
Sniping
Surgical strikes are a reality with good shooting. See Simo Häyhä on the point.
SR-71
Blackbird Working Low
SR-71s being made. The one in the
foreground is a two seat version.
Submarino
Australiano
Is Italian and fairly obvious. It show
what a Mk 48 torpedo from aforesaid submarino can do to a destroyer. It is a
surplus destroyer. The result is horrifying to anyone who goes down to the sea
in ships of the Royal Navy.
Demise of British tank industry foretold
admitted
[
30
December 2008 ]
UNQUOTE
Can't make flintlock muskets any more, either
Comment
Oh woe! The country which invented the tank (Blighty) may soon no longer
have a tank industry! The end of yet another era is at hand. It's just like
Concorde! And the Vulcan, Lightning, etc. Let gloom be unconfined - Santa
won't be bringing any more British tanks for Christmas in years to come.
Or so says the British tank industry, anyway. The last
fortnight has seen several reports in the business press on the possible
imminent doom of UK tank-making, following a recent MoD budgeting
announcement by Defence secretary John Hutton. In addition to pushing back
any serious spending on the Navy's planned new aircraft carriers, Mr Hutton
also effectively kicked into touch the long wrangled-over Future Rapid
Effects System (FRES) "Utility Vehicle" (UV).
The FRES UV was to be something of a miracle: an armoured
off-road ride tough enough to keep our soldiers safe, yet light enough to be
air freighted. Given that even 60-tonne Main Battle Tanks like the current
Challenger - too heavy for realistic air freighting - can be opened up by
basic roadside bombs or buried mines, this was always going to be difficult
to build............
It's true that Blighty invented the tank, but in strict
point of fact our tanks have never done us much good. World War I was won
without making any serious use of them. The most successful British tank of
World War II was actually a US import, the Sherman. Perhaps as soon as 1944,
close air support was beginning to elbow tanks and artillery off the
battlefield throne, before the armoured juggernaut had even properly come
together..........
Certainly by the 1970s, just as fully-equipped armoured
warfare was starting to become a reality, it was becoming more and more
obsolete. General Sir Rupert Smith, commander of the last division-strength
armoured force ever put into the field by the UK in 1991, stated in his
recent book
The Utility of Force that the last ever battles to be
settled by tanks - as opposed to air support - took place in 1973. Not in
the Iraq invasion of 2003, nor under his own and Norman Schwarzkopf's
command in 1991: but in the Sinai and the Golan Heights, nearly four decades
ago.
QUOTE
Tanks look rather imposing. Then you look at the anti-tank
mines, the anti-tank guns, the anti-tank missiles, the anti-tank aircraft
and get the feeling that walking might be safer.
RAF Trying To Take Over The Fleet Air Arm Again
[
30
December 2008 ]
UNQUOTE
In a bizarre repeat of history,
reports have it that the Royal Air Force is once again seeking to take
over the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy - a sure sign that the economy
really is in desperate trouble. Just as it has meant more than once in
the past, a successful RAF bid to grab a greater share of the taxes in
tough economic times is likely to mean soldiers and sailors dying
unnecessarily in years to come.............. We've been here before, more than once.
In the dark days of the 1920s and 30s, against the background of the
General Strike and the Jarrow March, the cry for economies placed the
Fleet Air Arm under RAF ownership in just the sort of plan now
developing. There was one nation, and one air force. As one would
expect, the Fleet Air Arm was the Cinderella of the RAF, neglected in
favour of the strategic deep bombers which the air service
institutionally loved (and continues to love) more than anything else. In 1939, on the eve of war, when the Royal Navy finally regained
control of its own aircraft, it was left with pitifully weak air cover.
The fleet's main strike plane - the famous Swordfish, aka "the Stringbag"
- was an aged biplane, almost a flying antique. The service never
acquired a proper carrier fighter through the whole war, as the pre-war
RAF had seen no need for such a thing - indeed, had felt little enough
need for land based fighters in some quarters. The fact that carriers had
served since World War I as bases for the RAF rather than as warships
had led the navy to buy too few of them and to hope wistfully that
big-gun battleships might retain their old dominance.
As the wasteful, murderous strategic bombing campaigns by the
Luftwaffe and RAF began, slaughtering civilians in droves at the cost of
thousands of heroically brave airmen, achieving almost nothing in the
process, the Navy was cut to bits for lack of seaborne air cover. The
battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by
Japanese air attack, with more than eight hundred men lost. Another nine
ships were sunk and many more battered almost into wrecks in the
evacuation of Crete, where again no air cover was forthcoming. In
addition to almost two thousand sailors killed, a thousand soldiers died
in the land fighting and thousands more were captured.
All through the war the RN suffered from lack of carriers and lack of
planes to fly from them, and had to make desperate efforts to catch up.
By the end of the fighting, every convoy finally had an escort carrier -
largely ending the horrifying bloodletting of the early Atlantic war.
Every fleet had a fleet carrier. The aircraft carrier had finally
replaced the battleship as the main unit of naval power in all sensible
people's minds..............
If all that doesn't save enough money, frankly I'd join the decorated
Iraq hero and SAS officer Colonel Tim Collins and say
break up the RAF, not the Fleet Air Arm. I'd say "one nation, one army,
one navy - that'll do fine". As a way of having aircraft, the RAF is an
unbelievably expensive and troublesome to deal with. (The Israeli air force
has about the same number of useable combat aircraft, many of them actually
better than the RAF's. It has less than half as many people. The Fleet Air
Arm and Army Air Corps manage to operate highly sophisticated aircraft with
far fewer bodies per cab.)
With just two services, you only have scope for one inter-service dispute,
after all. As it is we have three, allowing a triplefold fight which
threatens to paralyse us even in good times - and cripples us outright when
money is tight.
Let's try and remember the lessons of history just for once, here. Let's
remember all our thousands of soldiers and sailors dead in the Repulse
and the Prince of Wales, at Crete, on the Atlantic and Arctic and
Malta convoys - and all over again, heartbreakingly, in the Falklands. Let's
remember that every time a British fighter has shot down an enemy aircraft
since World War Two, that fighter took off from a ship to do it.
QUOTE
The Royal Navy writes. The Royal Navy is right.
US M1A1 tank penetrated in Iraq by mystery round, Oct 2008 [ 20 November 2008
]
A round was fired from 100 yards and penetrated deep into the
tank. The hole was about as big as a pencil. This was not an amateur widget.
Israel And Germany Develop Missile Warning System
[ 17 November 2008
]
QUOTE
Working in secret, Israel and Germany have jointly developed a
nuclear missile detection system, according to the Defence
News Web site. Code-named Project Bluebird, the system is based on the
prototype of an aerial
infrared sensor
designed to identify a nuclear-tipped missile speeding toward a target amid a
cluster of decoy missiles.
Military planners work under the assumption that in a nuclear
strike, decoy missiles could be launched along with those carrying nuclear
warheads to confuse and overwhelm
missile defence shields. According to the sources, Project Bluebird is
designed to avert such a scenario.
UNQUOTE
Colluding with Zionist thugs cannot
be good. They will steal the technology and give bad value in return.
Pakistan Cuts
Supply Lines To NATO Forces [ 20 September 2008
]
QUOTE
BARA: In a major development, the federal government on Friday announced
disconnection of supply lines to the allied forces stationed in Afghanistan
through Pakistan in an apparent reaction to a ground attack on a border village
in South Waziristan agency by the NATO forces.
Political authorities of the Khyber Agency claimed to have received verbal
directives to immediately halt transportation of all kinds of goods meant for
the US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan for an indefinite period.
Authorities claimed the decision was taken in the wake of the growing unrest in
the Khyber Agency that provides for the only ground link of the country to the
war-torn Afghanistan...................
The US government had accepted responsibility for the attack but did not offer
any apology for the same and instead announced to launch more such attacks
against the militants across the border, if so required in future.
UNQUOTE
Vicious dangerous war criminals is the best you can say of them. A fighting
withdrawal through the Khyber Pass and down to the sea will be an ugly business.
Bush and Cheney should hang for this along with Blair and Brown. The western
main stream media did not bother to tell us about this one. The agenda matters.
Truth does not.
Israel to pay $77 million for 1000 bunker-buster missiles to
attack Iran [
17 September 2008 ]
QUOTE
The US Department of Defence has approved
the sale of GBU-39 small diameter bunker-buster missiles to Israel. Congress
has 30 days to stop the deal, but that prospect is considered highly
unlikely.
Everyone knows that the reason for 1000
GPS-guided missiles is for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The notification to Congress of the pending sale was made over the weekend
by the Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the branch of the
Pentagon responsible for evaluating foreign military sales. The deal is
valued at $77 million and the principal contractor will be Boeing Integrated
Defence Systems.
Israel has also asked for 150 mounting
carriages, 30 guided test vehicles and two instructors to train the Israeli
Air Force how to load the missiles on its aircraft. In its recommendation to
Congress, the DSCA wrote that Israel's strategic position was "vital to the
United States' interests throughout the Middle East." Full story in
the Jerusalem Post.
UNQUOTE
If Israel is going to pay actual money
for American kit it has to be desperate to have it. The claim that they will
come across with $77 million is probably just propaganda. At $77,000 each
for some explosive and a small computer defence outfits are robbing the
American tax payer blind as normal.
Chinook
blunders cost MoD £500 million [ 4 June 2008 ]
QUOTE
The Ministry of Defence is accused today of a litany of mistakes after it was
revealed to have spent hundreds of millions of pounds on eight Chinook
helicopters which are still not airworthy 13 years after being ordered..............
UNQUOTE
Incompetence or corruption? Either way both it is gross and absolutely normal.
The Army's rifle is just another example but civil servants still get their
knighthoods, gold plated pensions and the very well paid jobs with the firms
they gave the contracts to.
73,846 Men Dead In Iraq [ 23 June 2008
]
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ISSUES OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMING
73,000 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQ..........
The Department of Veterans Affairs, May 2007, Gulf War Veterans Information
System reports the following:
Total U.S. Military Gulf War Deaths: 73,846
– Deaths amongst Deployed: 17,847
– Deaths amongst Non-Deployed: 55,999
Total “Undiagnosed Illness” (UDX) claims: 14,874
Total number of disability claims filed: 1,620,906
- Disability Claims amongst Deployed: 407,911
- Disability Claims amongst Non-Deployed: 1,212,995
Percentage of combat troops that filed Disability Claims 36%
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf
UNQUOTE
Telling the truth happens but only by accident. The link has been broken and the
main stream media are going to keep quiet about it. They are propaganda machines
and the war for Israel's oil is top of their agenda.
How
America Nukes Its Own Troops [ 24 October 2007 ]
QUOTE
What
“Support Our Troops” really means
Bush-Cheney have
delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU)
weapons, a “liberation” gift that will keep on giving.
Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually
stored at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.
UNQUOTE
The writer quotes many sources.
The Wikipedia's
article is more relaxed and comes from someone who has good
background.
Blackwater’s
bullets over Baghdad [ 6 October 2007 ]
QUOTE
Blackwater
USA has sprayed more bullets over Baghdad than any government
contract killers, er, cowboys. Nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since
2005, mostly from moving vehicles, no stops for body counts, let
alone helping the wounded. This according
to a new report from Congress. In fact, Blackwater is almost an
insurgency unto itself. Whatcha think?
UNQUOTE
Blackwater is
persona non grata with anyone who doesn't like mercenaries which
means most lefties. But they have made the thick end of US$1 billion
so what the Hell. Walk away with the loot. It was only tax payers
money.
PS See Blackwater
U.S.
Nuclear Weapons Being 'Guarded' by Israel [ 29 September 2007
]
QUOTE
American supporters of Israel were
delighted to learn that an Israeli company, Magal Security
Systems-owned in part by the government of Israel-is in charge of
security for the most sensitive nuclear power and weapons storage
facilities in the United States...... What all of this means is that
the government of Israel will actually have control over the security
of America's nuclear weapons.
UNQUOTE
Interesting or maybe
worrying, even frightening. Bush tried to ship six nukes to the
Middle East to attack Iran. The Jew, Chertoff controls the American
security department and lets in thousands of illegal immigrants a
day. That is policy of course. Government is not the answer.
Government is the problem.
Blackwater
- THE Mercenaries
QUOTE
Enter a world where the military
has become a business – where citizen soldiers work for a
private company whose currency comes from conflict. It’s a
place some salute and others fear. And it’s right in our
backyard.
UNQUOTE
Mercenaries do a lot of the work that armies
do but do it better. They pay much better too. There are people who
dislike private armies but they still want to be protected from rough
people. Given that the American army is dreadful going private is the
way to go. This long article has snide comments and one or two down
right lies.
Australia's
SAS stretched to limit [
21 September 2007 ]
QUOTE
THE country's
special operations commander has warned that the crack Special Air
Service Regiment is at risk of being over-committed because of
deployments to Afghanistan and the Middle East.
UNQUOTE
They
might be asking themselves why they have been sent to war. They will
not have had any honest answers. It is good training though. The real
thing is the only way to get up to speed.
Russian
army 'tests father of all bombs' [ 12 September 2007
]
QUOTE
Russia has delivered a belligerent
message of defiance to the West after army generals claimed to have
tested "the father of all bombs". Developed in secret, the
unchristened bomb, a vacuum device capable of emitting shockwaves as
powerful as a nuclear weapon, was unveiled with great theatre on
state television's main evening broadcast.
UNQUOTE
With a
vicious lunatic in the White House controlled by Zionist thugs
it all makes sense. If you want peace prepare for war.
Russia
to build new base for monstrous nuclear submarines [ 12 July 2007
]
QUOTE
Three nuclear cruisers will be
used in the Pacific Ocean. According to the project, each of the subs
will be outfitted with 12 Bulava ballistic missiles. The missiles are
capable of delivering ten nuclear warheads at a distance of up to
8,000 kilometres. Russia launched the first nuclear submarine (Yuri
Dolgoruky) of Borei class in April of the current year
UNQUOTE
This
is a pity but if you want peace prepare for war. With a drunken mad
man controlled by Jews in the White House it does make sense.
Non-Lethal
Weapons
QUOTE
No longer a gleam in the
Pentagon's eye, ray guns — or radiofrequency (RF) weapons, to
be exact — officially have arrived. As troops are increasingly
forced to serve as an ad hoc police force, nonlethal weapons have
become a priority for the military....
UNQUOTE
Governments
love power. Disarming people so that they can oppress them is a big
part of it. Weapons to use against them are part of the game.
Russia to
deliver 300 tanks to India for one billion dollars [ 7 June 2007
]
The
T 90 may not be the world's greatest tank but it does look the part
and the pricing proves that American and English offerings come at
rip off prices.
Nuclear
Threat Preparations in America [
19 May 2007 ]
QUOTE
To
the greatest fear of the American War Leaders regarding the Israelis
are the ‘alleged’ nuclear weapons that Israel’s
Mossad Intelligence service has secreted around the United States,
and to which President Bush has prepared his government to survive by
issuing of new commands for an American ‘Shadow Government’,
and as we can read as reported by the Washington Post News Service in
their article titled "Bush
Changes Continuity Plan", and which says....
UNQUOTE
Nukes
launched from Kamchatka have a known origin and reprisals will
result. The 40 foot container with a bomb could have come from
anywhere. It is just too easy for the international people, the ones
who stole Palestine. Sorcha Faal is the source and not the world's
most reliable but she could well be spot on this time.
Lions,
Donkeys and Dinosaurs by Lewis Page
QUOTE
The
past blunders which he highlights - for which no one has been forced
to accept the blame, so opaque is the accountability of both armed
services and the MoD - are history. What matters more are his
pointers for the future... It is all here. Lewis Page details the
ridiculous excess of senior officers for our shrinking services (over
40 major-generals for just two army divisions, 46 Royal Navy admirals
and 88 commodores, 340 RAF group-captains and 40 air marshals). He
describes the fantastic procurement blunders. There was the decision
that Britain should build its own Apache helicopters, at a cost of
£40 million apiece, while the Israelis bought theirs off the
shelf from the Americans for £12 million. There are the
scandals of the Merlin anti-submarine helicopter and the SA80 rifle,
and the fact that the RAF possesses 150 uniformed men per deployable
aircraft, more than double the ratio of the Israeli air
force.
UNQUOTE
Defence procurement has a track record of gross
incompetence and that is he kindest thing that can be said for it.
Look at the diaries of a major general in his last eighteen months,
the contracts he signs and the well paid job that he gets when he
leaves. Then wonder about corruption.
Beware!
The new Goths are coming [ 13 April 2007 ]
QUOTE
In
an apocalyptic vision of security dangers, Rear Admiral Chris Parry
said future migrations would be comparable to the Goths and Vandals
while north African "Barbary" pirates could be attacking
yachts and beaches in the Mediterranean within 10 years.
Europe,
including Britain, could be undermined by large immigrant groups with
little allegiance to their host countries — a "reverse
colonisation" as Parry described it. These groups would stay
connected to their homelands by the internet and cheap flights. The
idea of assimilation was becoming redundant, he said.
The warnings by
Parry of what could threaten Britain over the next 30 years were
delivered to senior officers and industry experts at a conference
last week. Parry, head of the development, concepts and doctrine
centre at the Ministry of Defence, is charged with identifying the
greatest challenges that will frame national security policy in the
future.
If a security
breakdown occurred, he said, it was likely to be brought on by
environmental destruction and a population boom, coupled with
technology and radical Islam. The result for Britain and Europe,
Parry warned, could be "like the 5th century Roman empire facing
the Goths and the Vandals".
UNQUOTE
Admiral Parry is quite
right of course. It hasn't done his promotion prospects any good
though. Telling all of the truth; that politicians are inciting
illegals might well have gotten him early retirement.
WMDs
from someone who knows
WMD is the latest
acronym to be taken up by politicians and the media. It stands for
Weapons of Mass Destruction and it sells newspapers as far as
journalists are concerned. Politicians use it to sell wars which is
worse. Men died in Iraq for lies, not just exaggerations. The armed
forces talked about ABC then NBC or Nuclear, Biological and Chemical.
The chemical bombs are a minor nuisance compared with HE or high
explosive. This is from someone who has been there.
Missile
Defence
Anti-rocket flares can brighten up
the day and save lives.
India
buys cutting-edge Russian warplanes
QUOTE
This
warplane, now undergoing flight tests, was developed especially for
the Indian navy's aircraft carrier
"Vikramaditya," formerly called the "Admiral
Gorshkov," which was sold to India
several years ago and is currently being upgraded at the Sevmash
machine-building plant in Severodvinsk
UNQUOTE
This
is the carrier borne version of Fulcrum and it does look seriously
useful. Why does India want carriers? To threaten foreign countries
at a distance. This does not mean Pakistan but does mean a lot of
countries in the Far East.
Russia
will be able to beat American ABM systems [ 17 March 2007
]
QUOTE
The Russian leaders have apparently
formulated their so-called asymmetrical reply to the comprehensive
American anti-ballistic missile (ABM) program.
The United
States is working to deploy a global ABM system [ Why? Bush is mad
but still why? - Editor ] that would be effective against
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and intermediate-range
missiles with a range of up to 5,000 km (3,107 miles)...... whose
creation will cost Washington some $60 billion [ Sheer lunacy -
Editor ] by 2015. Although Russia's defence budget is several
times smaller than the American one, it can nevertheless maintain
superiority in terms of cost-effectiveness and feasibility.
UNQUOTE
Merchants of death like a bit of sabre rattling. It is
good for sales but this is madness.
First
S-400
missile regiment to go on combat duty in Russia
[ 28 February 2007 ]
QUOTE
The first air
defence regiment equipped with new S-400 Triumf ground-to-air missile
systems will be put on combat duty in the Moscow Region in the middle
of 2007,...... new S-400 systems considerably differ from S-300
systems by their effective firing range, firing capacity and other
parameters.
UNQUOTE
They like to tell us about defence systems
rather than attackers. The S-400 is not all bad. It makes it harder
for Bush and his Zionist handlers to threaten Russia.
Colonel
Mendonca had no case to answer [ 15 February 2007 ]
QUOTE
Col
Jorge Mendonca, who was commander of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment,
had been charged with negligently performing a duty after an Iraqi
died in his battalion's custody in 2003. The most expensive court
martial in British history, estimated to cost more than £20
million, has sparked criticism of the Army Prosecuting Authority and
the conduct of the Attorney General in supervising the
prosecution.
UNQUOTE
The judge dismissed the charges because
there was no case to answer. Newspapers are not saying that it was
malicious prosecution because they have to worry about libel. It was
like Christmas every day for the lawyers. The message to the Army is:
Politicians are the real enemy.
Australia
to host US signals base [ 15 February 2007 ]
QUOTE
The
base would serve as a ground station for communications with American
military forces throughout the world.... Australia already hosts a
major satellite communications base at Pine Gap outside Alice
Springs, which is jointly manned with the US.
UNQUOTE
Pine Gap
was picking up signals from Russia by way of satellites.
Iraq
What works and what doesn't
War is the
only serious test of men and machines. Here are some results.
E-bombs:
Death to modern civilization [ 14 February 2007 ]
The
electromagnetic pulse that knocks out ALL things electrical would put
us back centuries. It may be more than hypothetical.
Iran
Set to Try Space Launch [ 27 January 2007 ]
QUOTE
Iran
has converted one of its most powerful ballistic missiles into a
satellite launch vehicle. The 30-ton rocket could also be....... for
testing longer-range missile strike technologies.
UNQUOTE
If
they can put anything into orbit they can hit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,
Haifa and anywhere else in Israel. This is a bit of sabre rattling
and quite reasonable given the murderous threats from Israel and
their puppet in the White House.
World
War III [ 13 December 2006 ]
Men serving
in Iraq are going to come back disenchanted. They are men who have
learned about guerrilla war the hard way, by being at the receiving
end of it. Some will not see the funny side of being treated as
pariahs as men were after Vietnam. It doesn't take many men to carry
out covert operations. It is all too easy to look round the ghettoes
of America and seeing them making trouble. The French have created
their very own ghettoes. Look at the consequences. Blair is doing the
same to us in England but he has the sense never to go near one
without armed guards. Trouble is being stored up for us using ethnic
time bombs and there ain't no accidents involved. The source for this
is Bill Lind. He knows of what he speaks.
UK
talks on £40bn nuclear deterrent [ 22 November 2006
]
Submarines with nukes are an option. The
world is not getting to be a nicer place. Beefing up the army would
make a lot of sense too but with a grossly corrupt government it is
unlikely to happen.
America
easy on China's new navy [ 18 November 2006 ]
QUOTE
THE
revelation this week that a Chinese submarine surfaced in the middle
of a US battle fleet in the Pacific Ocean last month demonstrated
that China is rapidly developing a powerful blue-water navy.
UNQUOTE
If you have a serious navy with world class sonar this
shouldn't happen. Was the Chinaman playing it for laughs? He got away
with it. The Americans won't be quite so amused.
How
Hezbollah Defeated Israel Part 2- Winning the ground war [
13 October 2006 ]
QUOTE
Israel's decision
to launch a ground war to accomplish what its air force had failed to
do was made hesitantly and haphazardly. While Israeli Defence Forces
(IDF) units had been making forays into southern Lebanon during the
second week of the conflict, the Israeli military leadership remained
undecided over when and where - even whether - to deploy their
ground units.
UNQUOTE
Incompetence is the obvious theme here.
The ground attacks were a political decision just like Adolf's
decision to attack Russia. It failed too.
How
Hezbollah defeated Israel, part 1 - Winning the intelligence war
[ 12 October 2006 ]
Knowing where the
enemy is matters. Knowing where is supplies are matters. The Israelis
were fat, arrogant and sloppy. Hezbollah communications were
hardened. Their security was good. They turned spies and fed back
misinformation. They did well. Israeli attacks on civilians were an
admission of defeat and an admission of evil.
Israel's
plan for a military strike on Iran [ 13 October 2006 ]
QUOTE
The
Middle East, and possibly the world, stands on the brink of a
terrible conflagration as Israel and the United States prepare to
deal with Iran's alleged ambition to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel,
it becomes clearer by the day, wants to use its air force to deliver
a knock-out blow against Tehran. It is not known whether it will use
conventional weapons or a nuclear warhead in such a
strike.
UNQUOTE
The
Israelis are grossly irresponsible hooligans, perfectly prepared to
start World War III without good reason. They control Bush and Blair
which makes them far more dangerous. They are bright enough to use
other nation's armies to do their dirty work for them when they can.
Their own is an arrogant bunch of incompetents. See the previous
item.
Build
a Cruise Missile for $5K
Building your
own cruise missile for US$5,000 may sound like a fantasy if you know
how much the tax payers get screwed out of for anything airborne. It
is not. $5,000 covers the parts and one objective was to buy them
without getting noticed. It happened and a lot of them were exported
from America to New Zealand without problems. The man doing this one
has solid back ground in model aircraft, jet engines and computing.
China
blinds US satellites with laser [ 26 September 2006 ]
It
sounds quite easy do with a high power laser and a good aim. It does
not blind them permanently so far. It just means they cannot spy on
China.
PS Chinese espionage carries on apace and with a Chinese
take away in every high street it is that much easier.
RADAR
Beats Stealth Technology [ 23 September 2006 ]
The
Ukraine has a radar system that detects stealth aircraft out to 500
miles. This is useful and a blow to American superiority. This
article has suffered in translation by someone who does not quite
know what the numbers mean. See also Ukraine
Offshore Outsourcing In Ukraine which is a sales pitch.
India
tests new missile [ 10 July 2006 ]
QUOTE
India
yesterday test-fired its longest-range nuclear-capable ballistic
missile, the Agni III, which can hit targets deep within China, a
senior Defence Ministry official said. The missile has a range of
more than 3000km..
UNQUOTE
Sabre rattling is getting
fashionable. When America was strong the second line thugs kept
quiet. Now that America is controlled by Zionists and wasting its
strength in Israeli interests they are trying it on.
China
Deploys Nuclear Submarines...Capable of Nuclear Counterstrike [
10 July 2006 ]
Their subs carry cruise
missiles with nuclear war heads unlike nasty little Saddam's
non-existent WMD. With Bush as a crazy run by Zionists it makes life
more interesting.
The
covert war to strangle North Korea [ 10 July 2006 ]
Spying
on them. Stopping their ships. Stealing their goods. Harassment
generally. Invasion is not on because they really do have WMD unlike
little Saddam Hussein.
Military
expenditure increases dramatically all over the world [ 24 June
2006 ]
QUOTE
The United
States keeps taking the lead, spending a trillion dollars on
arms; its military expenditure amounts to nearly four-fifths of the
world total.
It
is noteworthy that authors of the yearbook assume that Washington
could cut down on such huge military spending by taking a more active
line over its cooperation with other important players at the world
political scene. However, the U.S. seems to opt to handle all issues
relating to international security on its own. The effectiveness of
this strategy is yet another question.
UNQUOTE
80% of the
world total is absurd. Give peace a chance? Was John Lennon on the
right lines? We have been lied to big time in re Iraq just for
starters.
Stealth
fighter project 'flawed' [ 24 June 2006 ]
Have
you heard this one before? Lots of times? I have. It is going to be
the greatest thing since the Sopwith Camel then things don't fit
together. So they add a few billion to the price. It comes in late
and crippled. We get screwed and the defence contractors laugh up
their sleeves. Meanwhile perfectly good kit is sitting idle in
Arizona. See Where Warbirds Go
To Die
F
22A Raptor [ 12 June 2006 ]
This the next
American front line, stealth fighter with all of the latest and
greatest. At $350 million each it should be superb. Who is it going
to fight? Pass. Grotty little ethnics with Kalashnikovs are not going
to be affected. Guerrilla operations are the way to go. That is why
Zionists are infiltrating millions of them into civilization.
Chinese
AWACS prangs [ 12 June 2006 ]
Get a work
horse like a Hercules. Stick a radar dish on top and send it off to
spy on things. It will not look pretty but it works well - sometimes.
The Chinese captured an American equivalent so their version my have
been carrying cheap copies of American super technology. They might
even have had dodgy versions designed to fail at a crucial moment.
Americans do things like that.
New
parachuting technology [ 10 June 2006 ]
HALO
was the way to go. Jump at High Altitude with a Low Opening. The
parachute would fly quite well with a following wind. Now a rigid
wing is doing the same only better. It means getting to interesting
places faster without being seen by radar. The technology gets
better and the SAS just has to be interested.
A
new biological warfare race begins in Maryland [
2 June 2006 ]
QUOTE
The
United States has come along way since our British ancestors used
small pox poisoned blankets as a biological weapon against Indians.
But, sadly, biological weapons are still with us--indeed they are
becoming a major thrust of the U.S. military and a threat to
humanity.
Fort
Detrick in Frederick, MD is going through a massive expansion
into the largest bio-weapons facility in the world..... The
National Interagency Biodefence Campus (NIBC) is likely to ignite a
bio-weapons arms race.
UNQUOTE
This is bad news. It is also
likely to be wrong. THE major biological warfare outfit is in Israel
firmly under the control of the Zionist thugs who control America.
China
broadens espionage operations [ 24 May 2006 ]
QUOTE
'China
is running aggressive and wide-ranging espionage operations aimed at
stealing U.S. weapons technology that could be useful against U.S.
forces, according to the nation's top spy-catchers..........
'The possibility
of a U.S.-Chinese military confrontation over Taiwan looms in the
background of the espionage, said Ronald Guerin, the FBI's East Asia
section chief.' (USA Today article).
UNQUOTE
A
spy catcher is telling the truth for once. The Chinese really do want
Taiwan. Aggro could ensue. And why do you think they have a take away
in every high street?
New
U.S. Fighter/Interceptor Jet [ 22May
2006 ]
See the
first pictures of the F37. It has stealth technology, a top speed
around Mach 3.5 and a woman flying it which means that they are not
serious or that the feminists are still getting away with it. A
serious point is what it is for. The Israelis is the likely answer.
To be fair it looks like a good bit of kit. The government has not
released these pictures but men who are serving have.
Israel
carried out nuclear test in 1979 [ 19
May 2006 ]
They are
the ones complaining bitterly about Iran making nukes even though
they are not. They got their uranium by theft. They got the
technology by theft. They have had them up and running since 1979 at
least. See Israel
tested nuke in 1979
Martin
Van Creveld & Israel the mad dog [ 19 May 2006
]
QUOTE
Let's hand it to Martin
Van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, for speaking the mind of nearly half of all
Israelis. "The Palestinians should all be deported,"
declared Van Creveld in 2003. "The people who strive for this
(the Israeli government) are waiting only for the right man and the
right time. Two years ago, only 7 or 8 per cent of Israelis were of
the opinion that this would be the best solution....... now,
according to a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent."
Such a "Final
Solution" to the fact millions of Arabs live in Palestine-and
have for centuries-would be a serious violation of the 1949 Geneva
Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols, not that Israel believes
in humanitarian law when it comes to Arabs and Muslims.
Moreover, Van
Creveld boasted "Israel had the capability of hitting most
European capitals with nuclear weapons," a remark especially
pertinent now, as the Israelis and Americans claim Iran will do
likewise the moment it develops a nuke. "We possess several
hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in
all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are
targets of our air force." Iran has never made such a remark (or
threat) and yet we are told the country is a threat to world peace.
"Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother,"
Van Creveld explained. "Our armed forces are not the thirtieth
strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the
capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that
this will happen before Israel goes under."..........
Our problem is
Israel, not Iran. I fear Israel and its 46 percent of ethnic
cleansing and Islam hating fanatics-who are essentially racists, no
different than troglodytic members of the KKK or the millions of
deluded Germans who believed the racial theories of the Nazi Alfred
Rosenberg. I am more worried about our bought and sold
Congress-almost all prostituted down to the man and woman-on the
AIPAC food chain and the Neocon leash. I fear the rabid Van Creveld
and his fellow citizens more than I fear Ahmadinejad and the Iranian
mullahs. Rosenberg, at
least, suffered the noose as a war criminal at
Nuremberg.
UNQUOTE
Creveld reads like Adolf in his nastier
moments. Will the main stream media tell you about him? No! Why not?
Ask who owns them.
Oz
faces a systems failure [ 16 May 2006 ]
There
is plenty of tax payers' money. There has to be with incompetents
like this running the system. The new submarines cost $1 billion
extra to get them right. British cock ups like this are normal. Do
they care? Not really. Civil servants get their knighthoods
regardless. With patronage like this and cost increases merely
dependent on a bit of patter it is easy to see that favours might be
involved.
240
Diggers to Afghanistan [ 9 May 2006 ]
Oz
is sending 240 men to Afghanistan. This is down right silly. When the
tribesmen finish fighting ours they will go back to fighting each
other. There men soldier well or not very long.
Rumsfeld
grabs more power [ 24 April 2006 ]
Having
fouled up beyond belief in Iraq, Rumsfeld is taking power from the
CIA [ DrugRunners'R'Us ] and the State Department in order to wage
war here, there and everywhere. Does Bush take the this thug
seriously? Are they both mad or is it their Zionist handlers?
US
Navy's fleet increasingly irrelevant [ 20 April 2006 ]
Carriers
are hugely expensive. Destroyers at $1 billion up are not cheap so
when a couple of Arabs with a rubber dinghy full of explosives hit
one it is VERY cost effective. The price of a few camels to the
widows makes a lot of sense. Russian missiles aren't cheap but they
are effective and cost effective. Is there a lot of point in having a
navy?
Outsourcing
F-111 unit [ 14 March 2006 ]
F111s are
effective but getting on in life. Outsourcing is the fashionable
approach that makes a lot of money for business men prepared to
snivel to politicians and give them very well paid little
numbers later on. There is a better answer. The world's third biggest
air force is sitting quietly in Arizona. See Where
Warbirds Go To Die. They could spare us a few B52s or even F111s.
More
US subs to counter Chinese threat [ 7 March 2006 ]
Subs
are being secretly transferred to the Pacific to threaten China
rather than Russia. They will be based in Pearl Harbour, San
Diego and Bremerton in Washington state. This will be in case
of sabre rattling over Taiwan.
U.S.
Plans to Modernize Nuclear Arsenal [ 7 March 2006 ]
So
do India, Pakistan and Blighty. The Israeli nuclear upgrade does not
get a mention, far less any of its NBC [ nuclear, biological,
chemical ] capability.
Spitfires
roar and soar seventy years on [ 6 March 2006 ]
Seventy
years ago to the minute the nameless prototype flew. This time it was
a Mk IX twin seater with the original pilot. The Hurricane
did well early on but the Spitfire had the looks and
did the job. People paid for them at
£5,000; serious money then.
Pentagon
to sell fighters to India [ 4 March 2006 ]
But
they give them to Israel for free. Do the Indians get to pay double?
Possibly. It is a part of Bush colluding with the Indians on nukes.
It is all right for Indians to have nukes and threaten Pakistan. It
is not all right for Iran to have nukes so that they can defend
themselves from Israeli nukes.
Israeli
sub fleet chief- We can hit targets overseas [ 2 March 2006
]
Nuclear subs with cruise missiles can hit
more or less anything in Western Europe and all coastal regions of
North America. Add in anywhere a few hundred miles inland in a
country that annoys them and you are looking at a strategic weapon.
Of course almost anywhere is vulnerable to the 40 foot container with
a bomb and a long fuze. They can easily be pre-positioned and might
well be in place NOW. It is a two way passage though.
PS They are not
fool enough to have women onboard.
Israel
Buys Two Dolphin Class Submarines [ 2 March 2006 ]
For
$1.17 billion and putting the frighteners on. They were German
Kriegsmarine surplus. They already had three boats.
Australia
to buy Lockheed missiles for fighter jets [ 29 February 2006
]
They have a range of 250 miles which is
useful. Cruise missiles can attack land and sea targets. Oz has 71
F18 Hornets. They will cost A$400
million so they are not cheap which is why they will not be carried
by maritime surveillance aircraft - a pity. See also Missile
purchase to upset region Indonesians will not like the idea that
we can defend ourselves against them. They will help to fill the gap
between the going of the F111s and arrival of F35s.
Brazil
poised to join the world's nuclear elite [ 12 February 2006]
Do
we care? It seems not. North Korea gets threatened. So does Iran
regardless of what it does. So what is the score? It ain't the fairy
stories that the media are feeding us.
Where
Warbirds Go To Die
The world's third
largest air force sits and waits in Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona
'Aussie'
Abrams tanks roll off line [ 19 February 2006 ]
Five
have been made. There will be 59 and all second hand. Heavy
tanks seem fairly irrelevant for Oz but would be more useful for
invading Iran or other places that Zionists want attacked.
Amid
China threat, U.S. to hold mammoth naval operations in Pacific [
17 February 2006 ]
Exercising the fleets on
China's door step is a provocation in Chinese eyes or a comfort to
Taiwan. Four carriers is a lot of fire power. Do we really need sabre
rattling from a draft dodger like Bush or anyone else? BTW, you need
to read the Tehran Times to
see what the rest of the media are not telling.
Defence
Strategy Review
Leads to news and views.
Read for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself.
Quadrennial
Defence Review 2006
The
[ American ] Secretary of Defence takes a public position. It
is a public relations offering and part of the propaganda war.
E-Weapons
Directed Energy Warfare In The 21st Century [ 20 January 2006
]
High powered lasers could really spoil your
day and they can be controlled from far away. It sounds as though
those computer games will pay off. To say the obvious these projects
are humungously expensive but they are always cheaper than losing.
Britain's
sci-fi tanks to fend off attack with force-field [ 9 January 2006
]
This sounds good or, at least, high tech and
expensive. The real battlefield is in politics, education, law and
the churches. We are losing because we don't even know that they are
making war on us. See Invisible
Enemy and Subversion for
more on this.
Why
is the U.S. Navy Leasing a Swedish Submarine? [ 7 January 2006
]
With Russian submarines rusting at their
moorings there are not many credible enemies left but there are some
genuine threats which need the US Navy to train for.
Using Swedish technology is the answer.
Australia
gets spyplane drones
[ 15 December 2005 ]
They sound
useful. The customs and fishery protection people need them too. At
A$145 million they ain't cheap. They are from Israel with stolen(?)
American(?) technology.
Australian
Forces Becoming Invaders [ 15 December 2005 ]
The
RAAF is getting the heavy lift capability to move their main battle
tanks by air. That means invasions just like the Russian army when it
was in East Germany. All of their tanks were equipped for river
crossings and you don't do those when you are falling back.
Jewish
choppers in service of drug cartel [ 12 November 2005
]
American made choppers went to drug runners.
American officials are asking questions. Does this get worldwide
media attention? Not on your life.
India
to buy Zionist drones in 220 million dollar deal [ 5
November 2005 ]
Selling American technology to
China annoyed the Americans. They are still doing it. See the
previous entry.
Venezuela
upset with US over arms veto [ 3 November 2005 ]
Upgrading
F16s blocked so Hugo is going to give them to Fidel in Cuba or
that bloke with an odd name in China. Bush gives F16s to the Jews for
free. Bush invades Iraq for them for free. Jews matter. Others do
not. See Free
Jets for Israel: Bush OK's 102 Fighters at $45 Million Each
Revealed:
Blair's nuclear bombshell [ 17 October 2005 ]
Blair
is going to update our nukes. I think this makes sense although he is
doing it for the wrong reasons. Nuking Tel Aviv is an important
option. The Army is not keen and Brown is moaning about the cost. He
has got plenty of our money to waste when he wants.
BTW, the
English newspapers are so excited that they are saying nothing.
Free
Jets for Israel: Bush OK's 102 Fighters at $45 Million Each [ 1
October 2005 ]
This is so that they can attack
Iran but it is only American tax payers' money that is being used to
help Jews murder foreigners. Source Israel
gets new F-16I fighter/bomber
Colonel
saw engine blast before air disaster
Fly Air Ethnic
and take your chances? Not me. American air lines are quite conscientious.
They can't take the bad publicity. Remember PanAm? Nor does anyone else after Lockerbie and it wasn't even their
fault. Brits are all right for the same reason. They can't hide from
the publicity. Europeans? All right but after that get very
selective.
Russia's
new X-555 cruise missile operates better than its predecessor
With
a range of 1,250 miles and serious accuracy it sounds like good kit.
It is air launched so you have to be a long way away to be safe from
it or well hidden. It is the electronic side that makes the real
difference. How well can it avoid the opposition's defences? We will
never really know unless it is for real. Just hope that it doesn't
come to that.
STEALTH
SECRETS OF THE F-117 NIGHTHAWK
Its
development was kept under wraps for 14 years, but by 1991, the F-117
Nighthawk had become a household word.
Aviation
History is a bit more accurate but it is seriously advanced
technology and it worked well in Iraq. To be fair Iraqi technology
was probably not good but they meant it and the USAF's aircraft all
got back.
Vladimir
Putin flies Tu-160 bomber plane, tests cruise missiles and advertises
ice cream [ 18 August 2005 ]
The
Moscow air show was fun. Vlad went there.
Russia
responds to Le Bourget with MAKS-2005 Air Show in Moscow region [
16 August 2005 ]
This
is the second Moscow air show and they have some super kit. The
Mig-29 [ Fulcrum if you are in NATO - see NATO
reporting names ] has vectored thrust making it highly
manoeuvrable. I don't quite see why they need such advanced goodies
but if you want peace prepare for war and the Chinese are not always
nice. The USAF will be there too.
B2
Bomber's Radar Frequencies Sold. Changing Will Cost $1 Billion [ 16
April 2009 ]
QUOTE
If a multinational
organization that few have heard of, headed by a Russian-educated citizen of
Mali, managed to disable the radar of a major U.S. combat system, you would
think someone would make a fuss. Apparently not: When the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission, acting in accordance with the International
Telecommunication Union, inadvertently sold the operating frequency band of
the B-2 bomber's Raytheon APQ-181 radar to a commercial user, nobody
panicked, even though installing new radar arrays on the 20 surviving jets
will cost well over $1 billion.
UNQUOTE
Politicians get very
nonchalant about billions these days. After all it is only other people's
money and they come in for the golden hello, the brown envelope or what
ever. Civil servants see it the same way.
Oz Beefing Up Armed Forces
[ 13th May 2009 ]
QUOTE
Why, despite the slump,
Australia wants to lavish money on its armed forces
FLANKED by Australia’s senior soldiers, Kevin Rudd, the prime minister,
stood on a navy frigate in Sydney Harbour on May 2nd and talked of likely
future tensions in Asia and the Pacific....... The show of naval muscle was
calculated. His government plans a military build-up over the next 20 years
as a hedge against the tensions, which it worries are most likely to come
from China.
There will be only a modest rise in the number of military personnel, of
about 3,000 to 57,000. But the navy and air force will get the hardware to
build what the paper calls a “heavier and more potent maritime force”. The
submarine fleet will be replaced and doubled in size to 12. There will be a
new fleet of 11 frigates and air-warfare destroyers, equipped, like the
submarines, with cruise missiles. The air force will get about 100 new
fighter-bombers. Mr Rudd calls the build-up “the most powerful, integrated
and sophisticated set of military capabilities” Australia has had. It is
estimated to cost around A$100 billion ($74 billion).
But what is it for?........ This implies China has now replaced Indonesia as the main strategic
threat to Australia........ The new hardware’s priority
will be defending Australia’s northern approaches from the Indian Ocean via
the Timor Sea to Polynesia.
UNQUOTE
Hope for the best, prepare for
the worst. The last big attack was through the Northern Approaches. That was
the Japanese air raid on Darwin. Holding them off would be better than
fighting on land.
Britain's Fighter Force Cut By A Third [
31 July 2009 ]
QUOTE
The service will buy 160 instead of the 232 planned, it was announced in
Munich today at the contract-signing ceremony involving the four nations of
the NATO Eurofighter Tornado Management Agency. Britain signed up for a third and final tranche of Typhoons but agreed to
buy 40 instead of 88. Britain ordered 55 in the first tranche and 89 in the
second but 24 of these planes were immediately sold on to Saudi Arabia. Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, who retires today as the Chief of the
Air Staff, has made it clear that he expects the RAF to operate on the basis
of a Typhoon fleet of 120 aircraft..........
UNQUOTE
The traitors who inhabit Downing Street have plenty of our money when they want.
But making the men fight a war in Iraq for enemy aliens and refusing them the kit to
do it is even worse than usual.
India's first stealth fighter to fly in 4 months
[ 2 September 2009 ]
QUOTE
In less than four months from now, India's first
stealth fighter will fly for the first time. It
is called the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft
or FGFA being developed in Russia by Sukhoi.
The FGFA is designed to have a top speed of
approximately Mach 2, or twice the speed of
sound. It has the ability to super-cruise or operate
at speeds beyond the speed of sound without
engaging systems such as afterburners which
consume huge amounts of fuel.............. India, which has partnered Russia in the
development of multi-role fighter Sukhoi Su-30 MK
1,
[ NATO reporting name is Flanker - Editor ]
is a key player in the FGFA project and is
expected to pay a sizeable chunk of the $3
billion needed to fund development of the
fighter.
UNQUOTE
India moves on and
Her Majesty's Government still
subsidises them.
Brazil Needs Atomic Bomb [ 26 September 2009 ]
QUOTE
Brazil's
vice-president and former defence minister has said his country should develop
nuclear weapons. Jose Alencar, who led the defence ministry from 2004 to 2006,
said in an interview with several Brazilian news media broadcast on Saturday
that his country needed atomic weapons. "The nuclear weapon,
used as an instrument of deterrence, is of great importance for a country that
has 15,000 kilometres of border to the west and a territorial sea where oil
reserves have been found," he said..... Brazil has also signed the 1988
Tlatelolco Treaty that bars nuclear arms in South America.
UNQUOTE
The man has a point, what with the murderous hooligans to the north. They have
invaded dozens of countries.
Stealing oil is just one reason as Iraqis
know all too well.
Unmanned Craft Soon In Service With Jews [ 5 October 2009 ]
QUOTE
The Israel Navy plans to begin using unmanned naval craft in the coming months
for patrols along the Mediterranean coast, senior IDF officers said on Sunday.
Called unmanned surface vehicles, the ships are operated by remote control
from a land-based station and are highly manoeuvrable, allowing them to conduct
a wide range of missions, including patrols of the coast, without endangering
navy personnel. One system that the navy has already purchased is the Protector, which was
developed by Rafael Advanced Systems Ltd. The navy has also procured a second undisclosed system. The craft can carry a
wide variety of payloads, including cameras, sensors and weapons.
Both systems saw action for the first time during Operation Cast Lead in the
Gaza Strip earlier this year, when the navy deployed the unmanned surface
vehicles off Gaza to enforce the sea blockade aimed at stopping weapons
shipments.
UNQUOTE
Robots fight so nobody gets hurt. That is the theory. The
machines cost lotsa money so somebody winds up happy about it.
American Air Force Run By Israeli And Run For Israel
[ 17 April 2010 ]
QUOTE
One would expect the Air Force’s top civilian adviser to be someone who has
spent some time in the US military or who has a very particular educational or
skills set that brings something special to what is, after all, a very senior
and sensitive position. Not so. Dr. Lani Kass, who is the senior Special
Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General Norton
A. Schwartz, was born, raised, and educated in Israel and then served in that
country’s military where she reached the rank of major. She has a PhD in
Russian studies but advises Air Force Generals on Cyberwarfare, terrorism, and
the Middle East. And Kass appears to have close and continuing ties to her
country of birth, frequently spicing her public statements with comments about
life in Israel while parroting simplistic views of the nature of the Islamic
threat that might have been scripted in Tel Aviv’s Foreign Ministry.
UNQUOTE
Just how did an enemy alien get top level security clearance? By
something like total enemy infiltration is the answer. Do Jews need to spy on
America? Not when they are running it.
Jews Buying Nuclear Attack Submarines [
22 April 2010 ]
QUOTE
New reports say Israel is planning to establish a deep-sea navy and is
negotiating with Germany over the purchase warships and submarines. According to
a report published by United Press International, Germany will supply Israel
with three more Dolphin class attack submarines, several warships, and possibly
two MEKO A-100 corvettes. The MEKO variant sought by the Tel Aviv regime costs
an estimated $300 million. The warship, with a range of 4,635 miles, can carry
one medium-size helicopter and 24 weapons systems — 16 ship-to-shore and eight
anti-ship missile launchers adapted to US weapons as well as air-defence
missiles and automatic cannon. Citing an unnamed Israeli source, the UPI report
said that the Israeli navy would like even more Dolphins. “Our ideal number
would be nine — enough to ensure we have the necessary assets at sea to cover
all relevant threats and targets,” UPI quoted the source as saying.
UNQUOTE
What are the relevant targets? The Jews say nothing but take your pick of European
capitals. Add in Washington. Just make sure you are some place else if there is a
sudden exodus from your local synagogue.
Saudis Will Allow The Jews To Attack Iran [
14 June 2010 ]
QUOTE
In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on
Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel
to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten
the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass
unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not
scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are
through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.........
Despite the tension between the two
governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common
fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We all know this. We will let them [the
Israelis] through and see nothing,” said one...
The four main targets for any raid on Iran
would be the uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and Qom, the gas storage
development at Isfahan and the heavy-water reactor at Arak. Secondary targets
include the light water reactor at Bushehr, which could produce weapons-grade
plutonium when complete.
The targets lie as far as 1,400 miles
(2,250km) from Israel; the outer limits of their bombers’ range, even with
aerial refuelling. An open corridor across northern Saudi Arabia would
significantly shorten the distance. An air strike would involve multiple waves of
bombers, possibly crossing Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Aircraft
attacking Bushehr, on the Gulf coast, could swing beneath Kuwait to strike from
the southwest..........
Israeli intelligence experts say that Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and Jordan are at least as worried as themselves and the West about
an Iranian nuclear arsenal. Israel has sent missile-class warships and at least
one submarine capable of launching a nuclear warhead through the Suez Canal for
deployment in the Red Sea within the past year, as both a warning to Iran and in
anticipation of a possible strike. Israeli newspapers reported last year that
high-ranking officials, including the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have
met their Saudi Arabian counterparts to discuss the Iranian issue. It was also
reported that Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad, met Saudi intelligence officials
last year to gain assurances that Riyadh would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets
violating Saudi airspace during the bombing run. Both governments have denied
the reports.
UNQUOTE
One has to believe that Saudis hate Jews for the
unmitigated evil they do. Loathing Iran to that extent is a bit of a surprise
but that is what The Times is telling us. If they are fool
enough to swallow the Jews' story they are feeding us duff gen.
New Army Chief Is Ready To Pull The Plug On Grossly Over Priced UK Defence
Firms [
18 July 2010 ]
QUOTE
General Sir David Richards said the
Ministry of Defence should not ‘prop up ailing industries’ with lucrative
orders for overpriced tanks and helicopters. Britain’s most senior military
figure, appointed to his new role last week, said the Government should
instead buy equipment from cheaper foreign suppliers...............
His comments, made at an MoD meeting on the
future of the Afghanistan war last month, are likely to infuriate industry
giants including QinetiQ and BAE Systems, which is worth £10 billion and
employs more than 107,000 people worldwide...........
Last night, senior Conservative backbencher
Douglas Carswell, who campaigns on defence procurement issues, said: ‘The
General deserves 100 per cent backing. Pathetically weak politicians and
hopelessly compromised officials for too long have allowed our defence budget
to be spent supporting arms companies rather than our Armed Forces.’
UNQUOTE
Defence spending is grossly wasteful. BAE cannot or will not deliver a quality
product on time at an honest price. They are deeply corrupt con men
with a blatant track record to prove it. See
Lions, Donkeys
and Dinosaurs for the appalling details. If General Richards is an
honest man he will get a grip of the MoD which is just as badly featherbedded,
idle and wasteful.
Germany Sold Murder Machines To Jews With 80% Discount [
25 July 2010
]
QUOTE
Germany and Israel have failed to agree
on a sale's deal of a German submarine to Israel, a Berlin source said on
Friday........... The U.S. journal Defence News reported
this week that Chancellor Angela Merkel's government had turned down
Israel's request for a discount of up to one-third on the price of a $1.6
billion package including two other warships and torpedoes. Germany funded more than 80 percent of the cost of
Israel's first three Dolphin submarines in the 1990s, and is currently
accounting for a third of the cost of two more submarines being
manufactured in Germany.
The full cost of the diesel-powered Dolphin class
submarine would be some $700 million. Others already in Israel's fleet
were extensively underwritten by Germany, which is dedicated to Israel's
security, founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
UNQUOTE
Jews want nuclear submarines so that they can attack
anywhere in Europe - or America for that matter. They are vicious
hooligans. German politicians are moral cowards who have allowed
themselves to be intimidated by the
Holocaust® story
Afghan War Diary, 2004 - 2010
[ 26 July 2010 ]
QUOTE
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the
Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering
the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports, while written by soldiers
and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions
involving the United States military, also include intelligence information,
reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail. The document
collection is available on a dedicated
webpage.
The reports cover most units from the US Army
with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not
generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces
operations.
UNQUOTE
This is going to cause massive sense of humour
failure in the American high command and political circles. But
WikiLeaks
have cleverly put the source into a strange format so that we cannot read it. An
update on this one when, if it becomes accessible.
Royal Navy Buys Inferior Rubbish For Twice The Price Again
[ 24 November 2010 ]
QUOTE
Apart
from a possible ability to shoot down the latest Russian ship killers, however,
there are few reasons to buy PAAMS as opposed to Aegis/Standard. The Euro
offering is hugely more expensive: putting Aegis/Standard in our Type 45s
would have cut their costs by half or more. They would then be able to
launch Tomahawk cruise missiles against enemy warships or targets hundreds of
miles inland, and also Standard SM-3 interceptors capable of knocking down
ballistic missile warheads or
even satellites sailing far above the atmosphere.
As it is, we will pay at least double and get none of these
things. Our Type 45s will have no serious ability to strike targets ashore,
and we will continue to have no capabilities against ballistic missiles. Most
glaringly of all, the Type 45 will have no weapon other than its guns with
which to fight enemy ships - Sea Viper has no surface-to-surface mode.
You might feel that preservation of British high-tech jobs
in some way justifies such horrific overspending for such lamentable amounts
of capability, but in fact the relatively few Brit workers concerned have now
mostly been fired anyway. So actually it's pretty hard to agree with
Captain Powell and General Robison that this is a story of excellent
cooperation between MoD and industry. It seems more like industry taking the
MoD for a long and lucrative ride.
UNQUOTE
It is not always easy with
these things to know quite who are fools and who are
rogues. Salesmen are there to sell. Tax money is easy money so nobody really
cares. Do the public get value for money? Never. Nor do the men who serve at
sea. Of course admirals retire to become salesmen on their own account. Then
we get robbed again. See Lions, Donkeys
and Dinosaurs for more and better details.
Royal Navy Submarine Runs Aground Off Scotland
[ 22 October 2010 ]
QUOTE
A £3.5bn nuclear submarine has run aground off the
Isle of Skye, the Ministry of Defence said today. Early reports suggested no one
was hurt in the incident involving HMS Astute – the Royal Navy's newest and
largest attack submarine. An MoD spokesman said: "We are aware of an incident
involving one of our submarines off the Isle of Skye. This is a not a nuclear
incident............ Submarine HMS Trafalgar sustained millions of pounds worth
of damage when it ran aground off Skye in 2002.
UNQUOTE
Oh no, not again.
It is getting to be a habit. Doing it just after
Trafalgar Day does not help.
They were vague about who they were picking up or dropping
off. SAS are the obvious.
Brazil Will Build Nuclear Submarines [ 18 July 2011 ]
QUOTE
Brazil to build nuclear submarines which will
dramatically alter balance of power in South America The Brazilian government
has started work on a submarine programme which will include the construction of
South America's first nuclear subs. The move will boost Brazil's claim to be the
strongest force in the region, and strengthen the country's military
assertiveness. This new-found power may harm Britain in the event of another
flare-up over the Falklands, according to U.S. news agency Global Post, as
Brazil thinks the islands should belong to Argentina. The defence plan was
announced in 2008, and will eventually involve the construction of five new
submarines. Each will cost around $565 million.......
Government officials claim that the subs
will be used to protect the country's offshore oil reserves, and the
exploration platforms which are intended to expand those reserves. However,
Brazil is an outspoken advocate of Argentina's right to claim the Falkland
Islands - or Las Malvinas, as they are known in South America.
UNQUOTE
This happens as
Cameron is weakening our forces. He would claim that
he is not a traitor. By their fruits shall Ye know them.
RAF Buys 14 new Chinooks For £1 Billion [ 25 August 2011
]
QUOTE
RAF to get 14 new Chinook helicopters
The
Ministry of Defence is to buy 14 Chinook transport helicopters at a
cost of £1bn, the defence secretary has announced.
The contract, which will increase the number of
Chinooks operated by the RAF to 60, will also include development and
support costs for five years.
In a speech at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, where the
British Chinook fleet is based,
Liam Fox said the deal showed that the government was bringing
"reality" to the defence budget, enabling it to provide real equipment.......
There have been persistent complaints by the RAF of shortages of
helicopters and spare parts during the Afghanistan operation. Three
years ago it was reported that only 17 were fit for active service of
the-then fleet of 40.
UNQUOTE
A price over
£700 million each is grossly excessive. We should be
getting ten times the number for that price. Fox is a fool or a rogue.
Ditto for the MoD wallahs who did the negotiating. How many will walk into golden helloes from Boeing? Quite a few sounds right but by that
time we will have forgotten, won't we?
NATO Oil Tankers On Main Supply Route To Afghanistan Hit Again [ 25 August 2011
]
QUOTE
Gunmen atop motorbikes opened fire on the
narrow main highway at Kolpur village in Pakistan, 15 miles south of Quetta,
the capital of restive Baluchistan province. The tankers, carrying tonnes of
fuel, were heading through the southwestern Pakistan region en route to NATO
forces in neighbouring Afghanistan when they were fired upon in an attack that
has become all too familiar to coalition forc
UNQUOTE
The main supply route into Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass is
vulnerable, very vulnerable. Bribing locals works - sometimes. When they want
a pay increase they lay on an attack or maybe do it for the fun of the thing.
We can win there quite easily by walking away but corrupt politicians send men
to death without a twinge of conscience for reasons known unto them. Was it
bribes? Stupidity? Will we ever know?
Kalashnikov Rifle Is Being Updated [ 1 March 2012
]
QUOTE
Russian
army stops ordering 'out of date Kalashnikovs'... but won't tell inventor in
case shock kills him.......... Soviet hero
Mikhail Kalashnikov,
a former Red Army conscript, designed the
AK-47 in 1947, since when more than 100 million have been sold
worldwide. Later he produced the
AK-74.
[ with a smaller round - Editor ].
He was conscripted into the army in 1938, where he rose to
become a senior sergeant in the 24th Tank Regiment........ After the end of the war, he set to work designing a new
sub-machine gun and after a number of attempts came up with the AK-47 -
short for Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947........
Russia's Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said he is
already awash with Kalashnikovs but needs a more modern gun, which is still on
the drawing board at the brand's Izhevsk plant in central Russia.
UNQUOTE
The AK is good kit. It works under military conditions, which means mud, snow,
dust, rough usage. A better sight makes lots of sense.
Mikhail Kalashnikov [ one of 19 children ] is a decent man who would have
preferred to invent a lawn mower.
