Let the Red Times Roll | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in September 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, 60th Anniversary, beijing, Df, Flatbed Trucks, Foreign Observers, Foreign Policy, Liberation Army Soldiers, Military Hardware, Military Parade, Nuclear Missiles, Range Missiles, Rehearsal, Republic Of China, Showcase, skimming, Snafus, Taiwan, Targets, Yj

Beijing has spared no expense to ensure that the military parade and mass pageant planned for October 1 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China are both spectacular and free from security snafus.
Goose-stepping out: China’s Oct. 1 military parade will showcase some of its most advanced military hardware, perhaps intended to [...]

Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

Posted by Matt in June 24th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Nuclear, 15s, bombs, Counterrevolution, Darkness, Deputy Prime Minister, Eastern Mediterranean, Exercise, Iran, Israel, Israeli Attack, Israelis, Military Affairs, Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Program, Rehearsal, Shaul Mofaz, Targets, Technology

Israel has just carried out a major aerial exercise, putting a hundred or so F-15s and F-16s into the skies over the eastern Mediterranean, evidently a rehearsal for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The move follows the statement earlier this month by Shaul Mofaz, Israel’s deputy prime minister, that an Israeli attack on Iran’s [...]

Exclusive: Israel’s air maneuver did not simulate possible Iran strike strategy

Posted by Matt in June 23rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Military, Attack, Blitz, Capability, Conjunction, Crete, Greek Air Force, helicopters, Iran Nuclear, Israel, Israel Nuclear, Israeli Air Force, Long Distance, Maneuver, Military Sources, natanz, Nuclear Facilities, Reactor, Rehearsal, Tactic, Uranium Enrichment Plant, Warplanes

DEBKAfile’s Western military sources do not believe that if Israel does attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it will resort to the old-fashioned aerial blitz tactic employed in 1981 for bombing Iraq’s Osirak reactor. They therefore challenge the US officials’ conclusion that Israel’s aerial exercise in conjunction with the Greek Air Force over Crete in early June [...]

Israel’s dry run ‘attack on Iran’ with 100 jet fighters

Posted by Matt in June 21st, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, American Officials, Attack, Eastern Mediterranean, F15, F16, Greece, helicopters, Intelligence Agencies, Iran, Israel, Jet Fighters, Military Air, Nuclear Facilities, Rehearsal, Tankers

Israel has mounted a major long-range military air exercise – involving more than 100 F15 and F16 fighters – as a rehearsal for a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, American officials have indicated.
The fighters, along with refuelling tankers and helicopters able to rescue downed pilots, were mobilised during the first week of June over [...]

U.S. Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran

Posted by Matt in June 19th, 2008 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Israel, American Officials, Iran Nuclear, Israel, Israel Nuclear, Military Exercise, Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Program, Rehearsal, Seriousness, Strikes

Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Several American officials said the Israeli exercise appeared to be an effort to develop the military’s capacity to carry out long-range strikes and to demonstrate the seriousness with [...]