(source)Israele: missili terra-terra Iran sono una minaccia

I missili terra-terra iraniani minacciano "non solo Israele, ma tutto il mondo occidentale", dice il comandante della aviazione israeliana. Dopo aver rilevato che gia' oggi l'Iran e' in grado di colpire Israele con missili terra-terra, il generale Eliezer Shkedi ha aggiunto che gli ingegneri iraniani cercando di dotarsi di missili con una gittata ancora superiore: "Allora la questione interessera' non piu' solo lo stato di Israele, ma tutto il mondo occidentale".

Bella scoperta, te l'ho detto una settimana fa. Di questioni che interessano "anche tutto il mondo occidentale" ce ne sono parecchie, tanto per dirne qualcuna: i palestinesi incazzati come belve e chiusi in un recinto, il mistero del reattore di Dimona, il trattato di non proliferazione nucleare che non vi siete ancora decisi a firmare, e i 18 anni di galera che si è fatto Vanunu, senza voler entrar nel merito dei vari oleodotti più o meno documentati.

Si potrebbe anche argomentare che ogni volta che "qualcuno" va a bombardare un reattore nucleare non è un'operazione esente da rischi. Soprattutto se quel reattore era gentile opera della Russia, la stessa Russia che guarda caso si diverte a vendere una grande quantità di giocattoli costosi all'Iran. Russia che il signor Shkedi non nomina, in caso contrario qualcuno potrebbe iniziare a fare domande sulla Yukos.

Andiamo allora nel passato, per aiutare il signor Shkedi.

Russia and Iran: Comrades in arms

Government officials are yet to divulge details of the upcoming deals, but sources and analysts say that they may include spare parts for Russian-made weapons, new fighter jets, and possibly air defense, ground-to-ground and anti-ship systems. Some Russian media outlets have speculated that Tehran is interested in acquiring long-range S-300 air defense missiles, and medium-range Buk M1 and Tor M1 air defense missiles.

S-300? "The high efficiency of Russian S-300 antiaircraft missile complexes, the supply of which is being planned to Cyprus, has been confirmed at a shooting practice in the Far Eastern Military District. All the air targets were hit, a RIA Novosti correspondent was told in the FEMD press service. The shooting was carried out in particularly complex weather conditions at sea-based cruise missiles not only on head-on courses, but also in pursuit of the targets. Cruise missiles are capable of manoeuvring and fly at an altitude of only 25-50 metres."

Ancora:

Iranian military officials are also reportedly considering purchasing Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, Iskander-E tactical ground-to-ground missiles with a range of nearly 300 kilometers, and 550 BMP-3 armored infantry vehicles.

Iran also would like to buy supersonic Mosquito and Yakhont anti-ship missiles. The Yakhont missiles have a range of 300 kilometers. The Mosquito missiles, manufactured at the Progress plant in Arseniyev, Primorie region, near the border with China, have a range of 120 kilometers. The missiles fly at altitudes below 10 meters and their designers claim that Russia previously sold them to both China and Vietnam. The delivery of the Mosquito missile system to China was a part of larger, $800 million deal to build two Sovremenny-class destroyers for the Chinese navy.

Questo è il Mosquito, AKA Moskit, AKA SS-N-2 Sunburn, di cui pullula la Cina.

The Chinese military is set to conduct a flight test soon of one its newly acquired Russian anti-ship cruise missiles, according to intelligence officials. Preparations for the test firing of the SSN-22 Sunburn missile were detected during the past week and reported to senior officials. The missiles are deployed aboard a Russian-built cruise missile destroyer. The officials said there is more bad news: China's second Sovremenny-class cruise missile destroyer is on its way to China from Russia. The first destroyer was sent in February.

Ancora: Navy to get Russian 'Sunburn'

The U.S. Navy has quietly announced a program to acquire a Russian anti-ship missile recently sold to China -- following the Clinton administration's decision to cancel the only U.S.-made missile that could do the same job. The missile, the 3M82 Moskit, NATO code-named SS-N-22 "Sunburn," was recently purchased by China to arm two type 956 Sovremenny-class destroyers. Each of the new Chinese navy Sovremenny destroyers is armed with eight Sunburn missiles. The ramjet-powered Sunburn is reportedly equipped with a nuclear warhead equal to 120,000 tons of TNT. Each Sunburn warhead is six times more powerful than the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima Japan.

Ancora:

China, Russia team up on deadly new missile

China and Russia are preparing to enter into a joint venture to co-produce a deadly new supersonic cruise missile, the Zvezda Kh-31P mod-2, designed specifically to attack U.S. Navy Aegis warships and U.S. Army Patriot radar batteries, according to an expert on national security and Asian military affairs.

E ancora: U.S. eyes China first-strike threat

The Pentagon is reportedly investigating allegations that China will deploy nuclear-tipped missiles on two Russian-built Sovremenny-class destroyers, said by one defense expert to be warships designed to start a nuclear war.

Una parola di conforto anche sugli Su-27:

Russian flyover takes Navy by surprise?

A pair of Russian warplanes that made at least three high-speed passes over a U.S. aircraft carrier stationed in the Sea of Japan in October constituted a much more serious threat than the Pentagon has admitted and were easily in a position to destroy the ship if the planes had had hostile intentions, say Navy personnel. According to reports, a Russian air force Su-24 "Fencer" accompanied by an Su-27 "Flanker" made unopposed passes over the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) on Oct. 9, as the carrier was being refueled.

Before the Kitty Hawk could get a single plane airborne, the Russian fighters made two more passes. Worse, witnesses said, the first plane off the deck was an EA-6B Prowler -- a plane used primarily for electronic jamming of an enemy's radar and air defenses, not a fighter capable of intercepting another warplane.

Naval personnel noted that "the entire crew watched overhead as the Russians made a mockery of our feeble attempt of intercepting them."

Leggi: li hanno presi per il culo.

Indeed, according to one witness aboard the Kitty Hawk, U.S. personnel on deck likely were surprised.

Leggi: si sono fatti prendere per il culo.

Ancora sulla Russia: Al Gore's secret deal with Russia

Recent reports in the New York Times and the Washington Times show that in 1995 Vice President Al Gore signed a secret arms deal with Moscow. The deal reportedly allowed Russia to sell weapons to Iran and included illegal kickbacks, intended to bribe individual politicians inside Moscow.

In pratica, la Russia ha venduto tutta questa bella roba all'Iran sotto il naso, e con l'approvazione, degli USA. Se ne ricorderà Sharon la prossima volta che va a ritirare il denaro dei contribuenti made in USA?

The Clinton-Gore administration changed the joint Russia/U.S. military program to fill its politically correct needs. In 1995, the Clinton administration balked at the Sunburn price tag of over a million dollars a copy. Instead, the administration selected favored defense contractor McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing, to purchase a smaller, lower-cost missile from Russia called the Zvezda MA-31 "Krypton."

E a questo punto:

McDonnell Douglas, according to the official U.S. Navy documentation, proceeded under orders to help Russia improve the Krypton missile. U.S. Navy and McDonnell Douglas engineers suggested a series of "P3I" or "pre-planned product improvements" to extend the range of the Krypton, improve its flight performance, and enable jet fighters to safely fire the weapon.

Le due cose che i Russi non avevano capito su come si costruisce un missile, gliele hanno insegnate: pronte per essere vendute all'Iran.

"The MA-31 (Krypton) target will need (pre-planned product improvements) P3I in order to meet the range and ground/surface launch requirements for the Supersonic Sea Skimming Target program (SSST). The range of the MA-31 target in its FCT configuration is approximately 15 nm (nautical miles) at low altitude," states the 1995 review document.

"Sea skimming" come l'Exocet dell'altro giorno?

According to the 1995 McDonnell Douglas review, one "extended range option" given to the Russian contractor "adds an auxiliary fuel tank, a reduced drag nose cone, changes the fuel to JP-10 (which has a higher specific energy content than the Russian fuel), and modifies the ramjet nozzle. The extended range modification is intended to increase range to approximately 42 km at 10m (meter) altitude."

Cover colorato, loghi e suonerie non inclusi.

U.S. helps Russia build better missile

WorldNetDaily has obtained documents showing that the Clinton administration is helping Russia to improve a deadly new missile. "If true, this is worse than Loral or Hughes (security scandals)," commented a national security source inside Capitol Hill. "This is not a commercial satellite venture. The Krypton is a weapon."

Però si sono preoccupati solo quando Clinton si sollazzava con l'obesa nella sala ovale. Ed è ancora in circolazione, scrive libri, e qualcuno anche glieli compra.

Infine: Iran: We can hit anywhere in Israel

A senior Iranian military official told reporters yesterday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel and against U.S. military installations in the Middle East with its latest missiles.

Leggi: se ci venite a rompere le palle, allora vi facciamo un culo come una capanna.

"The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran's advanced missiles," the ISNA students news agency quoted Yadollah Javani, head of the Revolutionary Guards political bureau, as saying.

Quale atomic arsenal? Vanunu si era inventato tutto, non c'è niente a Dimona. No?

"Therefore, neither the Zionist regime nor America will carry out its threats" against Iran, he said. An attack on Iran "could only be carried out by angry or stupid people. For that reason, officials of the Islamic Republic must always be prepared to counter possible military threats," Javani said in a statement, ISNA reported.

La morale è che in Iran hanno visto che fine ha fatto l'Iraq, e quando la famosa "commissione per l'11/9" ha tirato fuori la favola dei "terroristi passati attraverso l'Iran" hanno cominciato a sentire puzza di fregatura.

Prima Michael Moore tira in ballo i Sauditi. Poi hanno cominciato ad ammazzare giornalisti. Poi dell'Arabia Saudita non si parla più, e l'Iran diventa priorità assoluta. Peccato che in Arabia sia scoppiato un casino dopo aver accettato di aumentare la produzione di petrolio. Perché dall'Iraq ne esce una goccia al giorno: cecchino oggi, cecchino domani, bisogna fermare tutto per mettere la toppa all'oleodotto. Oltre naturalmente a tirare fuori petrolio da vendere agli stessi iracheni allo stesso prezzo di Saddam, altrimenti scoppia la guerra civile vera. Che fine hanno fatto tutti i terroristi imboscati in Arabia? Si sono arresi entro i tre famosi giorni, o sono scappati in Cecenia insieme ai 300 "ingenerosi" ceceni fantasma di Nassyria?

Iranian officials have made a point of highlighting the Islamic state's military capabilities in recent weeks in response to some media reports that Israeli or U.S. warplanes could try to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities in air strikes.

Dopo Osirak in Iraq, anche Bushehr in Iran: speriamo che non si accorgano che ci sono dei reattori in Francia.

Iran last week said it carried out a successful test firing of an upgraded version of its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile. Military experts said the unmodified Shahab-3 was already capable of striking Israel or U.S. bases in the Gulf.

"Such statements by Iran only serve to demonstrate the need for Israel to maintain and further develop defensive systems such as the Arrow II," a senior Israeli defense source said Sunday.

Ecco: Arrow anti-missile defense system successfully tested in U.S.

The Defense Ministry and the Israel Aircraft Industries announced Thursday that the Arrow successfully intercepted an incoming Scud ballistic missile, in flight over the Pacific Ocean.

Però: The Nodong missile was developed by North Korea with Iranian financial assistance. Iran was slated to received the first shipment of the missiles late in 1993. Sarebbe bello sapere la velocità massima dello Shahab-3, che non si trova da nessuna parte e non ho voglia di cercare. Perché se il nuovo giocattolo non funziona sopra Mach 1 forse c'è un lieve problema.

"It appears that Iran is rattling its saber for fear of a pre-emptive strike by Israel or the United States – however grounded in fact such fears are or are not," the source said.

Pre-emptive come in "non abbiamo trovato le wdm neanche cercando sotto il letto di Saddam?"

Israel's Arrow missile-defense system, designed to counter threats such as the Shahab-3, passed its first live test last month by downing a Scud missile off the coast of California.

E "such as Exocet and SSN-22" l'avete provato? Se per sbaglio vi cade qualcosa sopra la California, possiamo dire che è stato Bin Laden?

Israel has recently conducted military exercises for a pre-emptive strike against several of Iran's nuclear power facilities and is ready to attack if Russia supplies Iran with rods for enriching uranium.

La teoria sarebbe che la Russia porta le barre in Iran, voi attaccate l'Iran e la Russia, che ha un patto di mutua difesa con l'Iran, ve lo lascia fare?

An Israeli defense source said "Israel will on no account permit Iranian reactors – especially the one being built in Bushehr with Russian help – to go critical."

Se Osirak e Bushehr sono un grave pericolo dell'umanità, vuol dire che la Russia dovrebbe sentirsi legittimata a bombardare Dimona o la raffineria di Haifa? Due paroline sull'oleodotto di Eilat-Ashkelon e la Yukos non le vogliamo proprio dire?

"If the worst comes to the worst and international efforts fail," the source said, "we are very confident we'll be able to demolish the ayatollah's nuclear aspirations in one go."

Certo, e Putin sta a guardare perché l'ultima novità è che "la Russia è povera e ha finito i soldi, e nel Caspio ci mette le barchette di carta".

Domanda semplice per il signor Shkedi: tra Russia, Cina, e Iran che fa esercitazioni chiamandole "Road to Jerusalem", quale parte di "cazzi amari" non hai capito?