White House OKs Taiwan arms package – Washington Times

Posted by Matt in January 25th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Taiwan, Administration Officials, Air Forces, Angry Response, Anonymity, Black Hawk, China, Communications Equipment, Defense Communications, Hawk, jets, Military Equipment, Military Helicopters, Missile Defenses, Patriot Pac, Taiwan Arms, Taiwanese Military, Uh, Washington Times, White House

Angry response likely from China over military equipment
The long-delayed arms package will include offers of sales of UH-60 Black Hawk military helicopters and additional Patriot PAC-3 missile defenses, but not additional F-16 jets that the island’s government has sought to modernize its air forces, according to congressional and administration officials.
Additionally, the Taiwanese military [...]

Report: IAEA demands visit to Syrian nuclear sites | Middle East Conflict

Posted by Matt in November 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Syria, Azur, IAEA, jets, Led, Middle East Conflict, Reactor, Stockpiles, Syria, Uranium, Watchdog

According to the report, IAEA inspectors discovered enriched uranium in three sites besides Dir Azur, where IAF jets destroyed an alleged reactor in September 2007.
These findings have led the UN nuclear watchdog to suspect that Syria has uranium stockpiles.
Report: IAEA demands visit to Syrian nuclear sites | Middle East Conflict

China set to take on Obama by selling advanced jets to Pakistan – The Times of India

Posted by Matt in November 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Ahead, Barack Obama, beijing, China World, India China, jets, November 15, Pakistan India, shanghai, Times Of India

China has sent out an interesting signal ahead of US president Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to Beijing by offering a set of advancedfighter jets to Pakistan. It has agreed to sell $1.4 billion worth of jets to Islamabad days ahead of the planned visit of the US president Barack Obama to Shanghai and Beijing on [...]

Colombia: Preparing for war with Venezuela

Posted by Matt in September 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Americas, War, Armed Forces, Balance Of Power, Budget Constraints, Colombia, Colombian Government, Crux, FARC, Guns, Hugo Chavez, Internal War, jets, Kafirs, Opponent, Sane Person, Sukhoi, Two States, Venezuela, Venezuelan, Venezuelans, Weaponry

Yet, Colombia does not have the weaponry that can match the technology that Venezuela has acquired. The balance of power between the two states has been shifting in favor of the Venezuelans for a while now, and budget constraints prevent the Colombian government from doing much about it. Although the Colombian Armed Forces are considerably [...]

How to Increase Your Blog Traffic by 30% or More in One Month

Posted by Matt in March 24th, 2009 | 4 comments

Published in general, Excerpts, Fly, Footer, Google, Google Analytics, Improvements, Increase Traffic, Israel, jets, News Articles, Nuclear Facility, People Find, Popularity, Promising Articles, Recent Articles, Safari Project, Syria, Top Keywords, U S Air, U S Air Force, Wikipedia

Recently I tried an experiment to see if I could significantly increase the traffic to this blog. I wondered if I could make modifications to promising articles to boost their traffic. By using analysis from Google Analytics, I was consistently able to boost traffic by more than 30% within one month.
Google Analytics allows you to [...]

‘Israel would attack Iran with missiles’

Posted by Matt in March 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, Iran, Israel, arsenal, Center For Strategic And International Studies, Esfahan, Iran Nuclear, Israel, jets, Military Action, Nuclear Facilities, Range Ballistic Missiles

If Israel chose to take military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, it might opt not to send IAF jets on a mission but rather use its arsenal of medium-range ballistic missiles, a report published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said Tuesday.
According to the NCIS report, 42 missiles would be [...]

Greece assists Israel as war with Iran looms

Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2008 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Israel, 300 Spartans, Air Radar, Air Tactics, Batteries, Battle Of Thermopylae, Battle Of Thermopylae In 480 Bc, Greece, Greek Air, Ground Radar, Hartford Courant, Initial Reports, Iran Nuclear, Iranian Air, Israeli Air Force, Jerusalem Post, jets, Jewish State, Moscow Times, New York Times, Nuclear Threat, Persian Army, Play With Fire, Potemkin, Radar Systems, Russian System, S 300, S Media, Spartan, Tiny Land

Greece has the same Russian S-300 ground-to-air radar systems as Iran. A June 2008 exercise with Israel may be preparation for strike.
While the Israeli-Greek air tactics were amply reported in the world’s media after initial reports in the New York Times, the pivotal information from Greece’s S-300 batteries has remained below the radar. By swarming [...]

Americans are allergic to Russia’s Topol missiles

Posted by Matt in June 26th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Military, Russia, Aggressor, Air Missiles, Computer Game, Cruise-Missiles, Icbm, Icbms, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, jets, Kp, Leads, Maximum Accuracy, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear War, Russia, Silo, Sotka, submarines, Topol, Unacceptable Damage, Worst Case Scenario

KP: Is it really possible that nothing will be able to reach the U.S.?
Polezhaev: Let’s talk about the worst-case scenario — an unexpected nuclear attack by the U.S. Of course, this is theoretical. Let’s say the attack leads to the destruction of 90 percent of our silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). Our lightly sheltered Topol [...]

The strange story of MiG-31s for Syria

Posted by Matt in June 25th, 2007 | no comment

Published in Military, Russia, Syria, 1 Billion, Aviation, Bashar Al Assad, Business Daily, Defense Missile, Fighter Bombers, Georgia Russia, Israel News, Jet Fighters, jets, Kommersant, M2, Medium Range Missile, Mig, Military, Military Engineers, Military Ties, Missile System, Missile Systems, Monopoly, moscow, Novgorod, Planes, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Russian Defense Ministry, Russian Embassy Officials, Sokol, Stockpile, Strange Story, Syria, Syrian President Bashar Al, Tartous, Timesonline, Ynetnews

Moscow’s respected business daily Kommersant reported that Russia’s arms-trading monopoly Rosoboronexport has begun to fulfill an arms deal it secretly signed with Syria this year to sell five MiG-31E jet fighters, considered among the best in the world, and an additional unspecified number of the newest MiG-29M/M2 fighter-bombers.
The paper reported the total price to be [...]

Attack of the Drones

Posted by Matt in March 31st, 2007 | no comment

Published in Military, U.S., Drones, hellfire, jets, Military, Missiles, predators, U.S., uav

All these attitudes began to change in 2001, when the CIA and the Air Force rigged a few Predators with Hellfire air-to-ground missiles. Suddenly, a UAV could do more than just float over a target for 20 hours at a time, watching and taking pictures, already a significant asset. It could also be a killer.
What [...]