tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3763161505160940822024-02-20T23:41:28.401-08:00INDIAN DEFENSE NEWSIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Sun TzuUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger800125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376316150516094082.post-61846585804474514892012-02-25T22:25:00.000-08:002012-02-25T22:25:45.990-08:00China Won't Take Part in Arms Race<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> China will not engage in an arms race with other countries, Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said on Wednesday, stressing that China's military growth is for defensive purposes. <br />
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The remarks were made in response to a recent report from IHS Jane's, a global think tank specializing in security issues, which claimed China's defense budget would double by 2015.</b> <b><br />
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Geng questioned the sources of the figures in the report, and said China's defense budget is set in accordance with national security needs and the nation's economic growth level.</b> <b><br />
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"The development of our military capabilities will not exceed our national security needs or economic capacity, and we will not engage in an arms race with other countries," Geng said at the ministry's monthly news conference. </b><b><br />
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This report is only one of a number published recently that have played up the "China threat". </b><b><br />
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Earlier this month, Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies released the China Security Report 2011, which said China is strengthening its military power to be able to stand up to the United States in regional resource development, according to the Global Times. </b><b><br />
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The report predicted that the South China Sea would be a major focus for China, and that the nation would strengthen its military power to ensure the safety of trade routes and its ability to counterbalance the US military, according to the newspaper.</b></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><br />
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Geng said the report was "making a wild guess" on China's military development and "playing up China's military threats", which "does no good for the development of Sino-Japanese relations or regional peace and stability".</b> <b><br />
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Geng pointed out that Japan's military buildup in recent years has drawn much attention from the international community, especially neighboring countries.</b> <b><br />
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We hope Japan can draw lessons from history, keep its promise on peaceful development, increase transparency in military development and reflect on its own military policies, instead of pointing figures at others," Geng said. </b><b><br />
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China's military budget for 2011 rose 12.7 percent to $91.5 billion, accounting for only 1.5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, in comparison with 4.8 percent in the US and 2.7 percent in the United Kingdom, according to the Xinhua News Agency. </b><b><br />
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From 1979 to 1989, China's military spending experienced an average annual decline of 5.83 percent, and the proportion of China's military budget in the country's total fiscal budget dropped from 8.66 percent in 1998 to 6.94 percent in 2009, Xinhua reported.</b> <b><br />
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Zhai Dequan, deputy secretary-general of the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, said: "China's military spending is in proportion to its large population. If measured by the US standard, our military spending is actually far behind our economic growth."</b> <b><br />
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Geng said the rapid development of science and technology meant that it was normal for countries to upgrade their weaponry and equipment, and China is no exception.</b> <b><br />
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"China's weapon and equipment development is based on its national defense, which doesn't target any particular country or region," said Geng.</b> <b><br />
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In recent years, the Chinese military had participated in many overseas military missions with advanced equipment, which had contributed to world and regional peace and stability, he added.</b> <b><br />
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China's Kunlun Mountain dock landing ship, an amphibious warfare ship with a well deck to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious vehicles, served in escort missions in the waters of the Gulf of Aden off Somalia from July 2010 to February 2011.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The flight testing of the first indigenous Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle will be carried out in Russia in 2012, Lenta.ru reports. "We will start the testing of medium UCAV in late 2012", - said Chief of General Staff of Russian Armed Forces, Nikolay Makarov. However he did not specify what UCAV will be tested.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Russian Ministry of Defense has signed contracts with St. Petersburg-based Tranzas Company and Kazan-based development design office OKB Sokol on pilot-plan and research activities in October 2011.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The total value of signed agreements was about 3 billion rubles. It is planned to develop a reconnaissance UAV and UCAV with weight of about 1 ton and 5 tons respectively in the network of these programs.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> According to vice-president of Tranzas, Viktor Godunov, his company has signed a strategic partnership agreement with OKB Sokol – the companies will develop both vehicles in cooperation. In particular, Tranzas will develop the guidance systems and airborne electronics for the UAVs, while Sokol will create the UAVs and ground equipment for them. It has been reported that both vehicles will perform the first flight in 2014 and the flight testing will be started in 2015.</b></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> It has been reported in January 2010 that Tupolev Company was developing medium-range UAV, based on Tu-300 reconnaissance/strike system. The project’s technical details have not been unveiled. In addition, MiG and Klimov have presented “Skat” UAV, which was being developed using stealth technology. However, this project has been closed, but the technology advance will be used for development of new state-of-the-art UAVs.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Tranzas is the development contractor of Dozor-600 UAV, which may be used as reconnaissance/strike vehicle. The UAV has been demonstrated for the first time at MAKS-2009 air show. Its testing should have been started in 2010. Ever since there was no information about any progress in this<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">progr</span></span></b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">am.</b><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>India intends to acquire another 71 Russian Mi-17V-5 helicopters, including 12 vehicles for the Ministry of Internal Affairs in addition to 80 ones, which have already been ordered, ARMS-TASS reports.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> According to the source close to the Indian Ministry of Defense, negotiations on additional purchase of the helicopters have been conducted earlier. "At present the parties are waiting for the continuation of the negotiations on acquisition of additional batch of Мi-17V-5s, not only for Indian Ministry of Defense, but also for another agencies", - the source added.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><b><span style="font-size: small;"> The deliveries of new-built advanced strike-fighter, the replacement of Su-25SМ, to the Russian air forces will be started in 2020, RIA Novosti reports. It has been reported by the representative of Russian Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Drik.</span></b><br />
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<b> </b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> "The modern requirements for conduct of operations force the aviation designers to look for new means of reacting appropriate reaction to the potential threats. As a result, the concept of advanced strike-fighter has been elaborated. This jet should be delivered to the military units by 2020, replacing Su-25SМs", - he said.</span></b><br />
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<b> </b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> The representative of the Ministry of Defense has also noted that the replacement of Su-25 strike-fighters by the modernized Su-25SМs is in progress. Su-25SМ has wider range of used armament. Radar facilities and navigation and target acquisition systems have also been upgraded. "The aircraft survivability has increased two times and its employment efficiency – four times", - Drik noted.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The BrahMos missile for the Indian Air Force which can be launched from a Sukhoi-30 is being developed and a test flight will probably be held by the end of this year, said Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, chief controller, R&D, DRDO and chief executive officer and managing director of BrahMos Aerospace. The BrahMos missile used an air breathing scramjet propulsion technology and hence was more fuel efficient than a traditional rocket-powered missile, he said.</b></span><br />
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He also touched upon the predictions for the future in technology in all spheres of life. "The future belongs to self-driven cars (which have been tested by DRDO in an ongoing project), flying cars, stem cell surgery, morphing airframes, solar power satellite and a space lift," he explained.<br />
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On the future of energy, he stressed that nuclear and solar power are the sources. Pillai also mentioned about the latest research into nano-solar cells that claim efficiency of 50% at low costs.<br />
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Turing his attention on BrahMos, Pillai stressed on the versatility and elite characteristics of the world's only supersonic cruise missile. Capable of being launched from land or sea to any target on land or sea, with a speed of Mach 2.8 (2.8 times faster than the speed of sound, which is three times faster than the USA's contemporary Tomahawk cruise missile). The BrahMos is the brainchild of Pillai's team comprising the DRDO, India and NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) of Russia.<br />
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Progress general designer Igor Kravchenko told AIN that the AI-222-25F is the first-ever Ukrainian engine to be fitted with an afterburner. “With its development, Progress has mastered reheat technologies, which we are now seeking to apply on a fighter engine in the class of thrust up to 44,000 pounds [20 tonnes],” he said. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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In its primary 22,000-pound (10-tonne) version, this engine could replace Russia’s Klimov RD-93 on the FC-1 and its Pakistan air force version the JF-17 Thunder.</span></b><br />
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According to publications in the media, the three-stage missile is capable of delivering a 750-kilo warhead to a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers. If the reports are true to fact, then it means that the missile can reach such cities as Tokyo and New York. The distance between these two cities and Tel Aviv makes up a bit more than 9,000 kilometers.<br />
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According to Western sources, Israel passed the Jericho-3 missile into service in 2008. However, the work on the project still continues.</b> </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><br />
According to the publication, the takeoff weight of the missile makes up 29 tons. The missile is 15.5 meters long. The Report says that in addition to the 750-kilo nuclear warhead, a Jericho-3 is capable of carrying multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles.</b></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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Even though the Jericho-3 is designed for deep underground basing, it will be possible to launch the missile from mobile platforms, including railway platforms. The high speed of the missile makes it practically invincible for interception.</b></span><br />
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The aircraft has an advanced onboard computer, satellite communication and radar systems, Col. Vladimir Drik said.</b> <b><br />
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It now has the capability to detect various types of flying targets, including helicopters, cruise missiles and supersonic aircraft, he said.</b> <b><br />
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The Beriev A-50, based on the Ilyushin Il-76 transport, first flew in 1978. It entered service in 1984, with about 40 produced by 1992.</b></span><br />
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The A-50 can track up to 10 fighter aircraft for either air-to-air intercept or air-to-ground attack missions.</b></span><br />
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An arms sales ban was put in place in Europe after China used military force against protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989.</b> <b><br />
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Now Europe finds itself in continued financial difficulty and the European Union is looking to leverage its bail-out fund to €1tn with the help of investment from cash-rich emerging economies such as China.</b> <b><br />
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Before the eurozone crisis deepened, European leaders were publicly considering lifting the ban, along with other restrictions. In January, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton suggested the EU "should discuss its [the embargo's] practical implication and design a way forward".</b> <b><br />
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At the time, Downing Street said the time was "not right" for the lifting of the ban and Foreign Secretary William Hague is once again said to be prepared to resist any such move.</b></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><br />
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A statement released by Chinese state-run media agency Xinhua said the country would never stop demanding EU restrictions be lifted and that there was a "prejudicial" assumption that it would demand their lifting in exchange for financial help.</b> <b><br />
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"Even if the debt crisis had not happened and the EU had not sought Chinese help, China would never stop demanding that the EU abandon its obsolete mentality and take a more open-minded approach on issues of currency disputes, high-tech export restrictions, arms sales embargo and human rights censure.</b></span><br />
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The original AI-222 was developed by the Ivchenko Progress design bureau at Zaporozhye for the Russian Yak-130 jet trainer, and was then fitted to three of the four L-15 prototypes. The new order suggests that China will not put the basic version of the L-15 into production.<br />
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The AI-222-25F develops 9,250 pounds (4,200 kg) of thrust at full afterburner, enabling the 21,550-pound (9,800 kg)-mtow L-15 LIFT twinjet to accelerate to Mach 1.6. At a price of $10 million, the Chinese aircraft is expected to sell well in international markets. The LIFT version can potentially carry air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons.<br />
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The engines will be manufactured at the main Motor Sich factory, also in Zaporozhye. Some components will be provided by Moscow-based Salut, which manufactures the AI-222 for the Yak-130. Deliveries will begin later this year, and are due to be completed by 2015.<br />
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Progress general designer Igor Kravchenko told AIN that the AI-222-25F is the first-ever Ukrainian engine to be fitted with an afterburner. “With its development, Progress has mastered reheat technologies, which we are now seeking to apply on a fighter engine in the class of thrust up to 44,000 pounds [20 tonnes],” he said. In its primary 22,000-pound (10-tonne) version, this engine could replace Russia’s Klimov RD-93 on the FC-1 and its Pakistan air force version the JF-17 Thunder.</span></b><br />
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At the recent Aviation Expo 2011 in Beijing, Progress also offered the higher-thrust SBM1V version of the TV3-117 turboshaft that powers the Mi-17 helicopter. It would boost performance for hot/high operations, such as in mountainous western China. The country has recently taken delivery of 32 additional Mi-17s, and could acquire more from the new joint venture with Russian Helicopters.</span></b><br />
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While the development work of Shourya is almost over and the missile is all set to enter production , focus now has shifted to another Submarine launched missile which has been under development for a while . K-4 which will be a modified Agni-III ,with range of 3000 km and been in development for a while , will see renewed pace in its development .</b><b><br />
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DRDO has not confirmed or denied existence of K-4 missile in media , but sources have confirmed about its existence , while K-4 is still under development and first test will not be held soon , instead DRDO want to carry out further test of K-15 to validate test parameters for a under launched platform .</b><b><br />
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In past Indian navy had refused to loan a Diesel Kilo Class submarine to DRDO for modification and testing of K-15 missile due to shortage of submarines in Indian navy . but media reports indicate that DRDO secretly tested the missile from a submerged canister in 2006 period , but DRDO have never cleared this reports .<a name='more'></a></b><b><br />
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K-15 will be first armed on India’s Nuclear powered submarine INS Arihant , after it completes it harbor and deep sea level tests , plans are also in place to second diesel submarine line which India wants to manufacture and purchase for its Navy .</b></span> </div></div>Yasirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908796084438379197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376316150516094082.post-56258229475001490792011-09-26T07:32:00.000-07:002011-09-26T07:32:19.733-07:00Boeing Says Japan Could Produce F-18 Super Hornet Under License<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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The comment came after the U.S. aerospace giant, along with Lockheed Martin and a consortium of European countries, submitted bids to produce Japan's next mainstay combat aircraft in a deal that could be worth up to $8 billion.</b><b><br />
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Japan, which is facing a resurgent China and its growing military as well as threats from North Korea, plans to decide this year how it will replace its current fleet of ageing F-4 Phantom fighters with about 40 new combat airplanes.</b><b><br />
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Phillip Mills, Director of Boeing's Japan FX Capture Team, said Japanese makers could supply about three quarters of Super Hornet components if Japan opted for the fighter jet.</b><b><br />
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There has been great interest in how much of next-generation fighter jet-related jobs will be outsourced to the Japanese industry, which has been battered by gradual but consistent shrinkage of the defence budget.</b><b><br />
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"If you came to the Boeing production line, everything you saw Boeing doing in St Louis would be available or is available for Japan industry to do," Mills told Reuters in an interview.<a name='more'></a></b><b><br />
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"It's clear that we are going to be somewhere in the 75 percent area," Mills added, referring the percentage of F-18 component production that the company could outsource to Japanese makers.</b><b><br />
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Japanese fighter jet and aeroplane components makers include top defence contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and IHI.</b><b><br />
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Boeing's F/A 18 Super Hornet is set to compete against Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Eurofighter Typhoon made by a consortium of European countries for the contract.</b><b><br />
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Mills said the high rate of planned outsourcing to Japanese companies, competitive pricing and ability to deliver on time give Boeing a competitive edge against the competition.</b><b><br />
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"The lower risk and affordability and licensed production we are offering is, I think, as good as they are going to get so all and all we are feeling pretty good about it," he said.</b><b><br />
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"We've offered an extremely fair and competitive price for not only initial aircraft but also for licensed production aircraft." said Mills.</b><b><br />
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He declined to specify the offer price.</b><b><br />
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Kazuya Sakamoto, professor at Japan's Osaka Univesity, said the Lockheed Martin F-35's stealth, or radar-evading, capability gives it an advantage over the competition, although its cost overruns and schedule slips have cast doubts over its prospects.</b><b><br />
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Fighter jets' stealth capability has drawn heavy attention in Japan since China, which has a long-running territorial dispute with Japan, in January confirmed it had held its first test flight of the J-20 stealth fighter jet.</b><b><br />
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Mills said Boeing's multi-role Super Hornet comes with a stealth capability, but the rival F-35 is "stealthier".</b><b><br />
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Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor, which also submitted its proposal to Japan earlier on Monday said the F-35 stealth jets would deliver "unmatched cost-effective capability for Japan's defense, now and well into the future".</b><b><br />
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"We are committed to an enduring F-35 partnership with Japanese industry to deliver F-35's transformational 5th generation capability for Japan's long-term national security," John Balderston, Director of the Japan F-35 Campaign, said in a statement.</b><b><br />
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Meanwhile, a consortium of European companies that makes the Eurofighter Tyhpoon said that fighter jet could be manufactured, maintained or integrated in Japan under license and that the aircraft's crucial data and software source code could also be handed out to Japan.</b><b><br />
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Some media reports have said U.S. makers have a better chance of winning the deal since Japan may shy away from picking European fighter jets out of fear that doing so could further ruffle its U.S ties, already hurt by disputes over the relocation of the U.S. Marines' airbase in southern Japan.</b><b><br />
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Meanwhile, the head of U.S. military forces in Asia and the Pacific predicted that Japan's choice of a new multibillion-dollar fighter fleet would reflect plans to stay "very complementary" with U.S. air forces.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Former ISI chief lt gen (retd) Hameed Gul has said that the time has come when the government should tell the US clearly that it should not try to take revenge of failure in Afghanistan from Pakistan, adding that Pakistan Air Force had put its defence system on red alert on Sunday night due to US flights on Pak-Afghan border.<br />
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General Hameed Gul said that recent incidents clarify that the Pak-US relations cannot remain at that level where were in Musharraf era, adding that every leader of Pakistan says that we don not accept America as our Master, and this is the voice of whole nation.</b><b><br />
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He said that it is time to say US that we are not like Cambodia, we are a nuclear state. “It is time to say that if you would do this than we response in this way,” he added.<a name='more'></a></b><b><br />
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Hameed Gul said that the Haqqani network is a pretext, which has two or three thousand fighters and they are working as subordinate of the Taliban, adding that the main target of America is Pakistan.</b><b><br />
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He said that Musharraf committed wrong with country, he gave binding hands to United States without any written agreement and are facing the consequences of decisions of Musharraf.</b><b><br />
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Hameed Gul said that Pakistan Air Force alerted its defence system due to flights of US fighter planes near border on Sunday night and this event was not reported in media. He said that the visit of Chinese vice prime minister scheduled to be start today (Monday) and meeting of Corps commanders is a signal which says that the civil and military leadership has common understanding regarding the threats faced by the country.</b><b><br />
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If today we have decided to answer America than it is a right decision and should stand with this decision, Gul added.</b></span><br />
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The two countries are slated to share their experience in expansion and management of railway network during the first two-day India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue, starting in Beijing on Monday. In fact, the chairman of the Railway Board will be accompanying the Indian delegation, led by Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia.</b><b><br />
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The Chinese side will be led by Zhang Ping, the chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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“Discussions during the 1st Strategic Economic Dialogue will focus on plan formulation and implementation in India and China, the global economic outlook, efficient use of water resources, energy efficiency and pricing and potential cooperation in the railway sector,” said a communique issued by the Ministry of External Affairs.<a name='more'></a></b><b><br />
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Both sides had agreed to establish the dialogue platform during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India late last year.</b><b><br />
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Although both are among the top five largest railway networks in the world, India has been sluggish in expanding its network while China has made a determined progress and has set an ambitious expansion plan of high-speed rail network to connect the remotest parts of the country to its fastest growing regions by 2020.</b><b><br />
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The Indian side is likely to use the dialogue forum to explore cooperation in this sector, particularly drawing lessons how to use cheap technologies to undertake massive expansion of the railway network.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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The vessel will be under direct command of the country's Central Military Commission. <br />
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"An aircraft carrier is the mark of major powers," said General Qiao Liang, a military expert.<br />
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The vessel will largely expand the combat radius, raising the country's offshore comprehensive combat capabilities beyond the first island chain. Qiao said that air domination is the prerequisite of naval warfare, especially for the remote areas away from the heartland. As a result, there is no alternative for the vessel's leadership.<br />
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Rather than an armament used in actual combat, the aircraft carrier is now more a strategic weapon. Its combat function ended as the Second World War was over. <a name='more'></a><br />
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"If an aircraft carrier sets sail from Japan's Yokosuka port, it takes a week for the vessel to arrive at the Malacca Strait and another a week's journey to the Red Sea. But that trip can be made within an hour — even half an hour — by a missile," Qiao said. "Air and space power is the key to future wars as it is faster, clearer and more accurate. The aircraft carrier's dynasty has already passed because economic activities do not solely rely on land and marine transport. Nowadays, capital flow can be easily finished by clicking the keyboard."<br />
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The vessel has a symbolic meaning for the country's naval power image. The participation of the vessel will strengthen the navy’s combat ability and deterrent force, Qiao said. <br />
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"The aircraft carrier will guarantee the smooth inflow of energy and resources into China from international waters. It can also ensure security and interests of Chinese workers overseas," Qiao said.<br />
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China's new carrier aircraft has reached the world's best level, Qiao said. Technically, the lifetime should be at least half a century. <br />
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"The Chinese people should not overstate or understate in terms of its meaning. It is merely a necessary step for the Chinese navy," he said.</span></b></div><div closure_uid_agttl9="224"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNeLKLU4JPqGJSigJ4xIDmN1WC6TA4-NhVb7Izv9WmT-zT_be6PxN8KbHsXvxqOS-ciocWADjxGoFiD0ETCx1EeTHx3tZUwCKmz535LsLME6n3ybzhyphenhyphen3y_06kck5caleEojuRB54NUvmN/s1600/Indian_Kaveri+Aero-Engine_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">DRDO officials say the Kaveri aero-engine, which incidentally is over 22 years in the making by now with a sanctioned cost of Rs 2,893 crore, can power unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) because they "do not require the kind of higher thrust" needed for the indigenous Tejas LCA (light combat aircraft).</span></b><br />
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This comes even as DRDO has now begun preliminary work on developing stealth UCAVs, under the secretive 'autonomous unmanned research aircraft' programme. This UCAV will weigh less than 15 tonnes, fly at altitudes of 30,000 feet and fire missiles and bombs with precision, as earlier reported by TOI.<br />
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DRDO has also come up with a modified Kaveri version, by "designing a free-power turbine to generate shaft power", for propulsion of warships. The Navy, as per DRDO, has shown "a lot of interest" in the engine which has a 12 MW power output.<a name='more'></a><br />
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"With Kaveri, we have proven several gas turbine technologies for a variety of applications. Indian Railways is also interested in knowing whether Kaveri can be used for powering trains," said the official.<br />
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DRDO is now also trying to tie up with French company Snecma to jointly develop the "90kN thrust class of upgraded Kaveri engines" for the future requirements of IAF. But the fact remains that the Kaveri project's dismal performance has forced India to ink a $822 million contract for 99 General Electric's F-414 engines, with an option to go for another 49 engines at a later stage, to power the Tejas Mark-II version.<br />
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While the first 20 Tejas will be powered by GE-404 engines, the next six Mark-II squadrons (16-18 jets in each) will have the new more powerful GE F-414 engines. Under the LCA project, which itself has been 28 years in the making with an almost 3,000% jump in overall developmental costs, IAF hopes to have its first two fully-operational Tejas squadrons based at the Sulur airbase (Tamil Nadu) by 2015 Now.</span></b><br />
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<b><span closure_uid_lz09lf="301" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Turkey has signed a government-to-government deal with the United States to buy six Boeing-made CH-47 heavy-lift military transport helicopters, the first such weapons in its inventory, a senior procurement official said over the weekend.<br />
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The deal is worth up to $400 million, the official said.<br />
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The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA, the Pentagon’s body coordinating weapons sales, notified the U.S. Congress of a potential sale of a total of 14 CH-47F heavy-lift helicopters for $1.2 billion in December 2009. Congress gave permission for the sale later that month.<br />
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Because of financial constraints, however, the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry, or SSM, Turkey’s procurement agency, later wanted to buy only six CH-47Fs, five for the Army and one for the Special Forces Command, leaving a decision on the remaining eight platforms for the future. Contract negotiations between the SSM, the U.S. government and Boeing were launched last year.<a name='more'></a><br />
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“The contract was signed in late July,” the procurement official told the Hürriyet Daily News. “After the helicopters begin to arrive, we plan to make some modifications to them according to our needs.”<br />
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The six CH-47F Chinooks will be the first heavy-lift helicopters in the Turkish Army’s inventory. Their deliveries are expected to begin in 2013 and end in 2014.<br />
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“These helicopters have incredible capabilities. Three or four of them can transport a company-sized unit and its equipment over long distances in only a few hours,” the procurement official said. The maximum speed of the CH-47F is around 312 kilometers per hour.<br />
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Developed in the late 1960s, the Chinooks have been exported to many countries, including Australia, Britain, Canada, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.<br />
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The Chinook has been successfully operated in combat conditions in several wars and armed conflicts.<br />
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Heavy-lift military transport helicopters are much larger versions of utility helicopters. The Chinook is a twin-engine, twin-rotor helicopter. Its counter-rotating rotors eliminate the need for an anti-torque vertical rotor, allowing all power to be used for lift and thrust.<br />
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The CH-47F is the upgraded version of the CH-47D, and is the latest model in this helicopter family. It can carry up to 60 troops and personnel.<br />
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A NATO CH-47 Chinook was shot down by Taliban forces southwest of the Afghan capital, Kabul, in early August, killing 30 U.S. troops, including 23 Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans.<br />
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“These are not unsafe devices. On the contrary, these helicopters had mission flights of thousands of hours in Afghanistan this year alone, and this was the first such incident,” the procurement official said.<br />
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Turkey usually manufactures its defense equipment itself, or jointly produces it with foreign partners. But since the number of the heavy-lift helicopters was rather small, the SSM ruled in favor of direct procurement from a single source, in this case, Boeing. The heavy-lift helicopter program is expected to be among the last of Turkey’s direct foreign procurement projects.</span></b></div><div closure_uid_lz09lf="278"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>T-50 stealth fighter jointly</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>financed </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>by Russia and India will make its first international public appearance at the MAKS airshow which went underway in Moscow, where Moscow unveiled its newest space shuttle, armed drones and a new range of upgraded weapons. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
Two prototypes of the single seater jet, estimated to cost USD 6 billion, are expected to fly over Zhukovsky air field on the outskirts of Moscow. <br />
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"The co-development projects of the two countries will remain centerpiece of the Russian aviation industry", declared Mikhail Pogosyan, President of the United Aircraft Corporation, makers of the aircraft. <a name='more'></a><br />
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Sukhoi's T-50 made its maiden flight in January 2010 and is expected to enter service by 2015. "The stealth fighter is progressing as planned and the new engine for the plane will be ready in time", Pogosyan said. <br />
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The fifth generation Sukhoi T-50, also called the PAK FA for its Russian abbreviations for a perspective frontline aviation complex, is meant to be a rival to the US joint strike fighter F-22 Raptor. <br />
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Pogosyan had earlier said that Russia planned to develop upto 1,000 stealth fighters over the coming decade as aviation experts say that the Russian military orders will account for more than 50 per cent of the combat planes' produce. <br />
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He said that the Russian airforce is expected to buy 20 new fighters annually in the coming years. <br />
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Top Russian aircraft makers including Sukhoi and Mig have survived thanks to orders from India and China, but steady increase in government defence spending over the past few years have given new incentives to the nation's aircraft industries. <br />
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The Indian projects jointly developed by the two countries will remain the centrepiece of the Russian aviation industry, according to a top official. <br />
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Speaking with the reporters after the inauguration of the 10th International Aviation and Space Saloon (MAKS-2011), here President of the United Aircraft Corporation Mikhail Pogosyan told that the fifth generation fighter Russia's new stealth fighter jet, which is expected to make its first public appearance during the air show Another static T-50 is expected to be demonstrated to a 'select' group'. <br />
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"The T-50 will be the newest main plane both for the Russian and Indian Air Force," Pogosyan said. <br />
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The fifth generation Sukhoi T-50, also called the PAK FA for its Russian abbreviations for a perspective frontline aviation complex, is meant to be a rival to the US joint strike fighter F-22 Raptor. <br />
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According to the local media reports the Indian version of the FGFA will be a lighter derivative of the PAK FA. <br />
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The projects for the joint development of Multimode Transport Aircraft (MTA) and deeper modernisation of Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighters under the 'Super-30" project are among the key joint Indo-Russian projects. <br />
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India has a larger footprint at MAKS-2011, the air show which is held at alternate years, with an expanded presence. <br />
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Unlike in the past when BrahMos JV used to display its deadly missiles under the roof of its Russian partner, India has its exclusive stall displaying the models of its cruise missiles, including an outdoor life-size mock-up of BrahMos cruise missile for the Sukhoi fighters. <br />
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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited also has a bigger display exhibiting models of the helicopters and planes produced by it. <br />
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This year's new entrant is Bharat Electronics, with a whole range of its avionics and force multipliers. <br />
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A huge IL-76 Flying Laboratory of Gromov Flight Research Institute with a Kaveri engine fitted on its test bed is also indicative of the scope of bilateral cooperation in cutting edge technologies. <br />
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The plane also bears the Seal of India's DRDO, showing an enduring interaction between the two organisations.<br />
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In all over 800 Russian and foreign firms, including Boeing and Airbus are taking part in MAKS airshow.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chen Bingde, visiting chief of the General Staff of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), pledged Sunday to lift the friendly ties between the Chinese and Israeli militaries to a new level during a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.<br />
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</b><b>Chen Bingde, visiting chief of the General Staff of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), shakes hands with Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv August 14, 2011. </b><b><br />
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A deepening Sino-Israeli cooperation is contributing to regional peace and stability, Chen said, stressing the relationship between the two countries' armies is developing in recent years.<a name='more'></a></b><b><br />
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Barak, who visited China two months ago, hopes that the two countries will work together to tackle all kinds of threats and challenges.</b><b><br />
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Chen's visit is the first of its kind, according to Israel Defense Force (IDF) Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who said the visit was significant in promoting the relations between the two militaries.</b><b><br />
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At the invitation of Gantz, Chen arrived here on Sunday for a three-day visit.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is the first car designed to be mass produced by Saudi Arabia I was waiting for the time where I would show case it when it officially launches about a year or two from now but I said blah what the hell I will do it now anyways and do it again when the commercials start rolling.<a name='more'></a></b></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376316150516094082.post-25326039015309049502011-08-14T01:25:00.000-07:002011-08-14T01:25:09.204-07:00The Pentagon's New China War Plan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8r7mLKA96AvFUZ5_iYSV0CuTPDy_O5of9YWWUwFo75dtliwJ0OlyyTZPbpqragXM6-ozIbAiGgZxRNtUuzYtipC7nC052fjoG-ubC4GHuol_4kCUO5oIFUiRbTmjbXkB7iYpjEs8N6Ai/s1600/usa_pentagon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8r7mLKA96AvFUZ5_iYSV0CuTPDy_O5of9YWWUwFo75dtliwJ0OlyyTZPbpqragXM6-ozIbAiGgZxRNtUuzYtipC7nC052fjoG-ubC4GHuol_4kCUO5oIFUiRbTmjbXkB7iYpjEs8N6Ai/s400/usa_pentagon.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1pWxHRwVWzgCoXOJIkbzF9p-9nS-MYWOhExLoNMYjpxQmGxv7eHT3Pb0PLiSoG1cyBWBN_CbATqP3BcyRRNKXDcfJre8xkuFey6O72qieHpYRobVbNHYAXmQaC7qjB3uDz4LE_GS-KSSI/s1600/usa_pentagon_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1pWxHRwVWzgCoXOJIkbzF9p-9nS-MYWOhExLoNMYjpxQmGxv7eHT3Pb0PLiSoG1cyBWBN_CbATqP3BcyRRNKXDcfJre8xkuFey6O72qieHpYRobVbNHYAXmQaC7qjB3uDz4LE_GS-KSSI/s400/usa_pentagon_1.JPG" width="400" /></a><b>Despite budget woes, the military is preparing for a conflict with our biggest rival -- and we should be worried</b><br />
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This summer, despite America’s continuing financial crisis, the Pentagon is effectively considering trading two military quagmires for the possibility of a third. Reducing its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan as it refocuses on Asia, Washington is not so much withdrawing forces from the Persian Gulf as it is redeploying them for a prospective war with its largest creditor, China.</b><b><br />
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According to the defense trade press, Pentagon officials are seeking ways to adapt a concept known as AirSea Battle specifically for China, debunking rote claims from Washington that it has no plans to thwart its emerging Asian rival. A recent article in Inside the Pentagon reported that a small group of U.S. Navy officers known as the China Integration Team "is hard at work applying the lessons of [AirSea Battle] to a potential conflict with China."<a name='more'></a></b><b><br />
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AirSea Battle, developed in the early 1990s and most recently codified in a 2009 Navy-Air Force classified memo, is a vehicle for conforming U.S. military power to address asymmetrical threats in the Western Pacific and the Persian Gulf -- code for China and Iran. (This alone raises a crucial point: If the U.S. has had nothing but trouble with asymmetrical warfare for the last 45 years, why should a war with China, or Iran for that matter, be any different?) It complements the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, a government white paper that precluded the rise of any "peer competitor" that might challenge U.S. dominance worldwide. The Planning Guidance is the Pentagon’s writ for control of what defense planners call "the global commons," a euphemism for the seaways, land bridges and air corridors that are the arteries of international commerce. For a foreign power to challenge this American dominion is to effectively declare war on the United States, and that is exactly what China appears to be doing in the South China Sea, a resource-rich and highly contested waterway in Southeast Asia.</b><b><br />
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It was in this spirit that Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Jim Amos, at a dinner hosted by the Center for a New American Security in late May, remarked that the wars in the Persian Gulf were denying Washington the resources it needed to cope with an increasingly assertive China. "We’d like to turn that around," he said. "I don't think we're there to [the extent] we need to be." In his candor, Amos became the latest U.S. military leader to speak about his service’s plans following the Afghanistan drawdown.</b><b><br />
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A U.S. mobilization in Asia is well underway, in faith with a spring 2001 Pentagon study called "Asia 2025," which identified China as a "persistent competitor of the United States," bent on "foreign military adventurism." Three years later, the U.S. government went public with a plan that called for a new chain of bases in Central Asia and the Middle East, in part to box in the People’s Republic. Similarly, the nuclear energy cooperation deal signed by the U.S. and India in 2008 was an obvious containment maneuver aimed at Beijing. In late March, press reports detailed a major buildup of American forces in Asia, including increased naval deployments and expansive cooperation with partner countries. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is forging ahead with a multi-year effort to transform Guam into its primary hub in the Pacific, an initiative so vast that John Pike of the Washington, D.C.-based GlobalSecurity.org has speculated that Washington wants to "run the planet from Guam and Diego Garcia by 2015."</b><b><br />
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Unlike America’s allies in Asia and Europe, however, China is not about to outsource its national security obligations to a foreign power, particularly when it comes to the South China Sea. There more than ever, and not without reason, Beijing identifies the U.S. not as a strategic partner but as an outright threat. In 2007, when China destroyed one of its weather satellites with a ballistic missile, it served as a warning to Washington after the ramming six years earlier of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet off the coast of Hainan Island. Though the crisis that followed was defused diplomatically, it was interpreted by some in Washington as vindication of the throaty Asia 2025. In fact, the clash followed a dramatic rise in the frequency of U.S. overflights in the area during the twilight of the Clinton years, which triggered a demarche from Beijing that slipped through the cracks of the transition to the Bush administration. The Hainan incident, as affair is known, was the inevitable outcome of a highly intrusive American surveillance regime.</b><b><br />
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In addition to China, Vietnam, Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines all have competing claims on several clusters of South China Sea islands. Rather than intervening with quiet diplomacy to untangle this incendiary thicket, the U.S. has starkly sided against Beijing. In March 2010, when a Chinese official was quoted by Japanese media as identifying the region as a "core interest" of Chinese sovereignty, the White House retaliated by declaring that freedom of maritime navigation is a U.S. "national interest." As it turns out, according to the China scholars Nong Hong and Wenran Jiang, writing in the July 1 edition of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation’s China bulletin, the core interest to which the official referred was “the peaceful resolution” of the disputes in question. Despite this, the White House refuses to climb down. Two weeks ago, three U.S. Navy ships paid call on Vietnam, China’s ancient antagonist, for a weeklong joint exercise at a time of strained relations between Beijing and Hanoi, prompting a formal protest from the Chinese. In Manila last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointedly assured her hosts that the U.S. would honor its mutual defense pact with the Philippines and sell it new weaponry on discounted terms.</b><b><br />
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For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government has encountered the practical limits of the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance. In its story about AirSea Battle and the China Integration Team, Inside the Pentagon revealed an oblique, if profound insight from Andrew Krepinevich, the highly regarded head of Washington’s Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. China, he said, is clearly jousting for control of the Western Pacific and "we have to decide whether we’re going to compete or not. If we’re not, then we have to be willing to accept the shift in the military balance." Otherwise, "the question is how to compete effectively."</b><b><br />
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Here is a noble appeal for Washington to match its commitments with the resources needed to sustain them, the absence of which has fueled the debt crisis that nearly reduced the United States to a mendicant state. Such are the crippling costs of a defense policy that makes global hegemony a mindless imperative.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGV1IJnRJhnkPBg1HkPvWYJgCgeIUpyHCM88jWG9IAKkM_4wbbUTfO5PKI5qk2MiRpq9lHdRMtGRIVY27OP8ThgRLw3RTVvyLEfnfh8x2gW3ezHGboCJLMV9RBhQArOGee8Ir11a2y1PN/s1600/Chinese_Aircraft_Carrier_Shi+Lang_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGV1IJnRJhnkPBg1HkPvWYJgCgeIUpyHCM88jWG9IAKkM_4wbbUTfO5PKI5qk2MiRpq9lHdRMtGRIVY27OP8ThgRLw3RTVvyLEfnfh8x2gW3ezHGboCJLMV9RBhQArOGee8Ir11a2y1PN/s400/Chinese_Aircraft_Carrier_Shi+Lang_1.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b>WASHINGTON — The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing's lack of transparency over its military aims.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"We would welcome any kind of explanation that China would like to give for needing this kind of equipment," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters when asked whether the carrier would raise regional tensions.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"This is part of our larger concern that China is not as transparent as other countries. It's not as transparent as the United States about its military acquisitions, about its military budget," she said.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"And we'd like to have the kind of open, transparent relationship in military-to-military affairs," Nuland said.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"In our military-to-military relations with many countries around the world, we have the kind of bilateral dialogue where we can get quite specific about the equipment that we have and its intended purposes and its intended movements," she said.<a name='more'></a></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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General John Allen, US forces commander in Afghanistan,</b> <b> said those responsible had been targeted in an air strike.<br />
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Separately, Nato said in a statement the strike had killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired at the helicopter.<br />
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The dead included Navy Seals, US Air Force personnel and other groups.<br />
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Many of those killed in Saturday's crash were members of Seal Team Six, the elite special forces unit whose members undertook the May raid into Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.<br />
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"The strike killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the shot associated with the August 6th downing of the CH-47 helicopter," the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) statement said.<a name='more'></a><br />
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Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Mr Allen said international forces learned to where the insurgents had fled, sought them out and killed them.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_fVn5_bALxgh0TSEj5wflylMWaD8tzQ7mbU73kSy3p_i0OrsaI9TiuCh9rxEU2f6oUHGQOzAMqcwY6W1Flw2UMyDxSww0Ct50ZvxNJxanF4hqBr1FaeFnZA2q4IVTDytCX_R114RiNcJ/s1600/Indian+Migs++Flying+Coffins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_fVn5_bALxgh0TSEj5wflylMWaD8tzQ7mbU73kSy3p_i0OrsaI9TiuCh9rxEU2f6oUHGQOzAMqcwY6W1Flw2UMyDxSww0Ct50ZvxNJxanF4hqBr1FaeFnZA2q4IVTDytCX_R114RiNcJ/s400/Indian+Migs++Flying+Coffins.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Earlier this month, yet another Russian-origin MIG-21 fighter crashed in the desert state of Rajasthan, killing a young trainee pilot and once more underlining what is perhaps the worst crash rate of any combat aircraft in operation anywhere in the world. <br />
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Not for nothing, the aircraft have been dubbed flying coffins. But in a bigger sense, their continued use is a depressing reflection on India’s slow and torturous defense modernization process to procure new fighter jets. <br />
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The elderly MIGs have formed the backbone of the Indian Air Force’s air strike capability for almost five decades, since the days when India led the world’s non-aligned movement and bought most of its military equipment from the Soviet Union, which disintegrated, leaving the Indian air force with a scarcity of spare parts. Technical snags and shoddy servicing also have resulted in many MIGs going down, killing pilots and severely disabling the Indian Air Force’s attack capability. <br />
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According to official figures, of the 793 MiG-21s inducted into the India Air Force since 1963, more than 350 have been lost in accidents, killing about 170 pilots. A recent report by the defense ministry has acknowledged that most of the MIG crashes have been attributed to outdated technology that relies on manual judgment rather than computer-driven, automated responses that more modern aircraft feature. <a name='more'></a><br />
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The Air Force, however, has been forced to rely on the outdated and near-obsolete MIGs because of the failure of the government to bring the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft into service and to import a long-awaited multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) as scheduled. The attempt to finalize the US$11 billion multi-role combat aircraft contract has been underway since at least 2001 – 10 years ago. Red tape, bureaucratic infighting and other delays have dogged the contract, however, which is supposed to take until 2013 before it is completed. <br />
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The basis of India’s defense modernization has been a perception of the rising threat from neighbors Pakistan and China, both countries against whom India has fought wars in the past. In this context, India’s stockpiling of its arsenal is aimed at building long-term deterrence against both countries. <br />
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China’s military capabilities currently far exceed those of India. The problems with Pakistan are more immediate. Apart from threats of state action India also has to guard against rogue and terror elements based in Pakistan launching an attack on Indian cities, possibly using even pilfered nuclear armaments that Islamabad possesses. <br />
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Given such a scenario, India has been seeking to build a fighter jet fleet that would be comprised of the MRCAs to replace the crash prone MiG-21 interceptors and fit between the more powerful long-range Sukhoi-30 and the lower-end indigenous Tejas lightweight fighters. <br />
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While the Russian Sukhois would build the China deterrence factor and are being deployed along India’s eastern borders, the MRCAs and the Tejas are to counter the Pakistan threat on the western borders. <br />
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However, given that India’s defense acquisition processes have long been mired in corruption, red tape, bureaucratic delays and indecision, the Tejas has already been almost three decades in the making and is not scheduled for induction before 2013 -- if matters go well, and after massive cost escalations. <br />
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The MRCA deal has been caught in debates about the extent and nature of offsets that the supplier will be obliged to follow. Offsets are investment commitments that a defense contract winner has to commit to before signing a deal with the Indian government. <br />
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All of this has meant that IAF pilots have had to operate and train with the ageing MIGs, which feature one of the highest landing and take-off speeds in the world at 340 kilometers per hour, making them extremely crash-prone. <br />
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Although the IAF has upgraded the MIG-21s, the IAF has recorded over two dozen fighter crashes over the last three years alone, more than half involving writing off the MIGs altogether. Of 10 air force crashes in 2010, four were MiG-27s and two MiG-21s. In February, an upgraded MiG-21 Bison also crashed in central India. <br />
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Yet, in the absence of alternatives, the MIGs are officially slated to be in operation till 2017, even though New Delhi has been growing visibly more urgent in the recent past to get its air power right. There has been some movement in finalizing the purchase of the 126 MRCAs. New Delhi has said that a decision will be made by the end of this year. <br />
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The bidders have been trimmed to the French Dassault Rafale or the Eurofighter Typhoon, while the Russian MiG-35, Swedish Saab Gripen, the American Boeing F/A-18 E/F and the Lockheed Martin F-16 combat jets have been rejected. Even though an unhappy Washington has been pushing New Delhi to reconsider its aircraft, it is unlikely that such a process is going to happen due to fear of more delays. <br />
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According to the defense ministry, India’s air force should comprise more than 350 fighter jet aircraft by 2020. That would include the 126 MRCAs, more than 160 new Sukhoi-30 MKIs and over 140 indigenously-built Tejas and the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) being developed jointly by Russia’s Sukhoi and India’s HAL. <br />
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However, until the plans are implemented, India air power will continue to rest far too heavily on the unstable MIG platform, which is continuing to kill both its rookie pilots – thus endangering the air force’s future -- and too many experienced ones as well.</b></span><br />
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