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Miragedriver

Miragedriver

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ShahryarHedayat said:

"Unfortunately, Saudi fighter jets have blocked two Iranian planes, which were carrying wounded Yemenis who had been treated in Iran and also carrying humanitarian and medical aid, from landing in Yemen and forced them to return home," ISNA quoted an unnamed Iranian official as telling the Saudi diplomat........

.......They said the air strike is over and after a few hours they resumed it ?
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My friend ShahryarHedayat,

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kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

Colonel
FORBIN said:
Israel Corvettes :

After modernization Saar V have now 16 Barak-8 replaced 64 Barak-1 and with new EL/M-2248 MF-STAR radar definitely a AEGIS like ship.
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Before modernization
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And new Saar 72, these are a stretched version of the Sa'ar 4.5 design that will incorporate stealth technology, same armament as Saar V but get a gun of 76 mm and don' t have a Phalanx.
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Hopefully they keep it much lighter. The Saar corvettes always look good on paper but terrible ships in real life because it was top heavy and very mediocre seakeeping qualities. I know this from actual conversations with people familiar with the ship.

You just can't pack destroyer type arsenal and armaments on a 1000 ton hull!!!
Not even Merlin could do that. same with help! good luck packing a SH-60 on that. Maybe a Cobra but nothing much bigger.
 
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ShahryarHedayat

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Iranian Plane Captain Asks to Be Sent
to Mission Impossible in Yemen Again

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TEHRAN (FNA)- The pilot of the Iranian cargo plane that was forced to return home after Saudi fighter jets bombed the Sana'a airport control tower and runway seven times to prevent his landing only moments before the final touchdown said he desires to fly to Yemen again to deliver his humanitarian cargo to the war-ravaged nation.

"Certainly, I will fly to Yemen if I find another opportunity. Of course my other colleagues also rival with each other over such an opportunity," Captain Behzad Sedaqatnia told FNA on Wednesday.

Captain Sedaqatnia's plane was bound for Sana'a International Airport on Tuesday but was intercepted by the Saudi fighters before landing in Yemen's airport. The Saudi fighter jets staged seven air raids on Sana'a airport which also set fire to an aircraft belonging to the al-Saeeda airlines to make the Iranian captain avoid landing.

The cargo plane was due to take humanitarian aid to Yemen and take several civilians, who were critically wounded in the recent Saudi bombings, back to Tehran to receive specialized medical treatment.


Also on Tuesday night, Sedaqatnia had told the Iranian state-run TV that "15 minutes after entering Yemen's airspace, Saudi fighter jets came to escort us insisting that we change our flight plan and go to Saudi Arabia".

"Then they once again warned us to go to Saudi Arabia and land in an airport there, but we refused," the captain added, saying that the Saudi fighter jets have even threatened to shoot the plane down and told him that the cargo plane had no other way, but to change the flight plan accordingly.

"But when we defied and approached the Sana'a International Airport, the Saudi warplanes targeted the airport with rockets and bombs, and when we found out that we couldn't land in there we decided to return," said the captain who went to the Omani capital, Muscat, to refuel the plane before returning to Iran.

Captain Sedaqatnia's plane was the third Iranian aircraft that was carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, but was intercepted by the Saudi fighter jets and made to return home.

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ShahryarHedayat

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Iran's Bavar-373 air defense system to be deployed by year-end: Cmdr.

A senior Iranian commander says the country’s domestically-built Bavar-373 air defense system would be ready for deployment by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 19, 2016).

Bavar-373 air defense system was successfully test-fired last August.

The long-range system, which is similar to the Russian S-300, has been manufactured by Iranian defense experts and is capable of hitting air targets at a high altitude.

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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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ShahryarHedayat said:
Arab militaries are ...

Dont believe anything...

Saudis after failing ...
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ShahryarHedayat, you are being warned.

STOP insulting other nationalities. We have SD members who do not warrant such insults.

We would not allow people to make such sweeping negative generalities about Persians, Russians, Chinese, , etc., etc.

We will not allow it here either.

You have been warned before, and even suspended. Do not go down this path it will lead to a longer suspension.

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navyreco

navyreco

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Good things come in threes: Qatar becomes the 3rd export customer of the Dassault Rafale
According to an official statement by the French presidency, Qatar announced today its intention to purchase the Dassault Rafale multirole fighter aircraft, for a total amount of about 6.3 billion euros ($7.06 billion). The Emir of the state of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani confirmed over the phone yesterday to French president François Hollande his intention to procure 24 fighter aircraft, with an option for 12 other planes.
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