War in The Middle East

[Armenian]

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Interesting...

US to build missile defense radar in (Caucasus), Iran's neighborhood

The United States Missile Defense Agency is planning to build a radar facility connected to America's ballistic missile defenses systems somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains, RAW STORY has learned.

A post on the blog Arms Control Wonk by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis of Harvard University first pointed to evidence of the plans, drawing on a tip from former CIA Analyst Allen Thomson. A fact sheet issued by the Missile Defense Agency points to plans to install a "forward-based X-Band radar" in the Caucasus sometime during the years 2008 or 2009. An MDA PowerPoint presentation from 2005 further confirmed the plans.

The X-Band radar is a key part of the American missile defense architecture, described the Federation of American Scientists as, "the primary fire control sensor, providing surveillance, acquisition, tracking, discrimination, fire control support and kill assessment for the NMD system." Two more are planned in Europe and East Asia according to the fact sheet.

Placing the radar in the Caucasus region would expand coverage of the missile defense system to parts of Russia and Iran, as well as other potential states in the area with ballistic missiles. Lewis and Thomson speculated that Azerbaijan and Georgia could be the host countries, although they offered no concrete evidence of the claims.

Update: In a comment at the blog, MDA Spokesman Rick Lehner called the news out of date, but added "Remember that these radars are designed not to be permanent, but can be air-lifted to wherever they are needed to support missile defense. As such, there are no plans for possible locations. "

http://www.rawstory.com/admin/dbscri...php?story=2592

[skhara]

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[D3ADSY]

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look at this bullxxxx

"Is this how you evacuate a man?"

"Aperaantly under fire"

Lol you can see 2 bullets hit the ground just few feet from them on the right side...i want him to evacuate a man while his under fire

If you think that is good, you will love this:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14469.htm

Remember, Israel is not bombing Lebanon, it's faulty construction. It's true, Fox reported it.

[Davo88]

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UN Security Council adopts Mideast resolution

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-08-12T002910Z_01_N10459214_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-UN.xml

[friend]

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what's this iam hearing that california is targeted?

[Armenian]

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Two Merkava tanks hit by Hizbollah anti-Tank missiles just outside Merjeyoun.

Anti-tank weapons inflicting heavy losses on Israeli army

Published: Friday, 11 August, 2006, 01:26 PM Doha Time

JERUSALEM: Powerful anti-tank missiles manufactured by Russia and Iran are being used with deadly effectiveness by Hezbollah against the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, military sources say. A large proportion of the 68 Israeli soldiers who have died in south Lebanon since the start of the offensive a month ago were killed by such missiles. Top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot reported yesterday that out of 25 anti-tank missiles fired, about one-quarter of them pierced the armour of targeted tanks and caused heavy losses.

"The terrorists know where the weak spots are, and we are being badly hit," the newspaper quotes a senior official as saying. The attacks are a blow to the pride of Israel’s army. Merkava III and IV tanks are considered among the most powerful in the world and have a reputation for extremely resistant armour and protective systems. Merkavas boast 1,200 horsepower and are equipped with state-of-the-art electronic systems that should make them some of the safest and most mobile tanks in the world.

But Israel’s tanks, crucial for any ground operation in southern Lebanon, have proved vulnerable to the attacks of Hezbollah and ill-adapted to the hilly and heavily wooded terrain. Israeli military officials have also admitted surprise at the level of resistance they are meeting from Hezbollah fighters, who are well-trained and have been firing at tanks from very close range. The bulk of the Shia militia’s anti-weapons are Russian-made models, although some were manufactured in Iran, said expert Yiftah Shapir from the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.

"The most efficient missiles are the Metis-M and the Kornet manufactured by Russia and delivered to Syria in the nineties," he said. "They are very lethal because they have been designed to penetrate active armour on modern tanks such as those the Israelis were the first to introduce in the early eighties," Shapir said. Hezbollah also has the latest Sagger missile, a Russian weapon manufactured in Iran, as well as the Russian Spigot, the expert.

These missiles have the ability to pierce armour as thick as 1m and have a range of 1.5-5km. "The Israeli army knew that Hezbollah had a large arsenal of missiles, but maybe they didn’t know they had the Metis-M and the Kornet," Shapir added. Yediot Aharonot quoted a senior military official as saying the army’s lack of preparedness for the threat of anti-tank missiles "is a bigger failure than that which preceded the Yom Kippur War."

The Israeli army has dramatically underestimated Egypt’s ground forces ahead of the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. "The problem isn’t technical," said Shapir. "They will always end up finding the answer to the new generation of missiles just like they did in the past." "The most important thing is that the Israeli army finally understand that they are not up against a gang of terrorists but a real army."

AFP -- http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topic...7&parent_id=17

[D3ADSY]

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I was so wrong.

[Armenian]

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I was so wrong.

So was the IDF

[Anonymouse]

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I was so wrong.

About what?

[D3ADSY]

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About what?

I don't know about destroying five tanks but they are certainly disabling and/or causing shrapnel wounds to Merkava crews from the pictures I have seen.

30 Tanks Wiped Out in Lebanon
12:01 Aug 11, '06 / 17 Av 5766

(IsraelNN.com) IDF officials admit that the biggest surprise of the ongoing war against Hizbullah is the ease by which terrorists have destroyed IDF tanks.

At least 30 tanks have been totally destroyed or seriously damaged in bomb and anti-tank rocket attacks involving state-of-the-art Russian anti-tank rockets.

About one-half of the military personnel killed in southern Lebanon were inside tanks.

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So yeah, it's looking more and more like Hizbullah were not exaggerating as much as I thought they were. But I'm still cautious, anything with tracks is a tank to most journalists.