IDEAS 2012-ARM EXhibition Karachi Pakistan

IDEAS 2012-ARM EXhibition Karachi Pakistan

International Defense Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) 2012 Soft launch. International Defense Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) 2012 will take place at Karachi Expo Center from November 7 to 11, 2012.

General Khalid Shameem Wynne Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee reviewing guard of honour during his visit to France

Rawalpindi - December 6, 2012: 

General Khalid Shameem Wynne Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) who is on an official visit to France today called on Admiral Edouard Guilaud, the French Chief of Defence.  On his arrival Chairman was presented guard of honour by a smartly turned out contingent of French Army. General Khalid Shameem Wynne also met Mr Francis Deion, secretary General of Defence and National security and General Puga, Advisor to President on Defence.
 Later Chairman delivered a talk at French War College on Pakistan’s security perspective.

General Khalid Shameem Wynne Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee reviewing guard of honour during his visit to France on Thursday. (06-12-2012) – Photo ISPR

PKK militant arrested in Turkey says Iran and Armenia support Kurds

PKK militant arrested in Turkey says Iran and Armenia support Kurds

"PKK has two organizations and two storey building in Armenia. These houses are mainly used in treatment of PKK militants," said PKK terrorist Ahmet Gunes in Turkey while giving a testimony at the Erzurum 2nd High Criminal Court, Turkish press reports.

"Severely wounded militants are sent to Armenia, but lightly wounded militants to Iran," he said. He added that the PKK houses in Armenia are allegedly located near the intelligence agency of the country. In addition, Gunes said that Iran supported PKK. "Iranian intelligence has close relations with PKK and sends weapons to them", he added.

Gunes, charged with 'Membership in an armed terrorist organization', may face 15-20 years of imprisonment. 

Source: arminfo.am

Afghan Taliban shoot down CIA drone in Logar province

Mujahedeen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan shot down an American spy drone in district Muhammad Agha of Logar province.

According to a report, on Thursday the 22nd of November 2012, mujahedeen brought the drone down using heavy machine gun fire at 10 a.m. Afghan Standard Time.

Sources say the drone was involved in surveillance of the area.

Source: Zabihullah Mujahid, Afghan Taliban's Official Website

US troops arrive near Syrian shore on USS Eisenhower

US troops arrive near Syrian shore on USS Eisenhower

Thousands of US troops arrive near Syrian shore on USS Eisenhower - Eisenhower Strike Group transited the Suez Canal from the Persian Gulf Saturday, Dec. 1, sailing up to the Syrian coast Tuesday in a heavy storm, with 8 fighter bomber squadrons of Air Wing Seven on its decks and 8,000 sailors, airmen and Marines. The USS Eisenhower group joins the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group which carries 2,500 Marines.

Facing Syria now are 10,000 US fighting men, 70 fighter-bombers and at least 17 warships, including the three Iwo Jima amphibious craft, a guided missile cruiser and 10 destroyers and frigates.
Four of these vessels are armed with Aegis missile interceptors.
This mighty US armada brings immense pressure to bear on the beleaguered Assad regime after it survied an almost two-year buffeting by an armed uprising. Its presence indicates that the United States now stands ready for direct military intervention in the Syrian conflict when the weather permits.
Left behind in the Persian Gulf is just one US aircraft carrier, the USS Stennis and its strike group.

Welcoming NATO’s decision Tuesday, Dec. 4, to deploy Patriot missile batteries in Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday: “The protection from NATO will be three dimensional; one is the short-range Patriots, the second is the middle-range Terminal High Altitude Air Defense [THAD] system and the last is the AEGIS system, which counters missiles that can reach outside the atmosphere.”

The USS Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier that holds eight fighter bomber squadrons and 8,000 men, arrived at the Syrian coast yesterday in the midst of a heavy storm, indicating US preparation for a potential ground intervention.

While the Obama administration has not announced any sort of American-led military intervention in the war-torn country, the US is now ready to launch such action “within days” if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decides to use chemical weapons against the opposition, the Times reports.

Some have suggested that the Assad regime may use chemical weapons against the opposition fighters in the coming days or weeks.

The arrival of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the 11 US Navy aircraft carriers that has the capacity to hold thousands of men, is now stationed at the coast of Syria, DEBKA file reports. The aircraft carrier joined the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, which holds about 2,500 Marines.

“We have (US) special operations forces at the right posture, they don’t have to be sent,” an unnamed US official told The Australian, which suggested that US military troops are already near Syria and ready to intervene in the conflict, if necessary.

If the US decides to intervene militarily in Syria, it now has at its disposal 10,000 fighting men, 17 warships, 70 fighter-bombers, 10 destroyers and frigates and a guided military cruises. Some of the vessels are also equipped with Aegis missile interceptors to shoot down any missiles Syria might have at hand, according to DEBKA file.

“The muscle is already there to be flexed,” a US official told the London Times about the US military’s presence outside of Syria. “It’s premature to say what could happen if a decision is made to intervene. That hasn’t taken shape, we’ve not reached that kind of decision. There are a lot of options, but it [military action] could be launched rapidly, within days.”

The move comes after NATO made a significant strategic decision Tuesday to deploy Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems in Turkey on the border of Syria where opposition groups have the stronghold. The defense would be able to protect Turkey from potential Syrian missiles that could contain chemical weapons, as well as intimidate Syrian Air Force pilots from bombing the northern Syria border towns, which the armed rebels control. Syria is thought to have about 700 missiles.

“The protection from NATO will be three dimensional; one is the short-range Patriots, the second is the middle-range Terminal High Altitude Air Defense [THAD] system and the last is the AEGIS system, which counters missiles that can reach outside the atmosphere,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

DEBKAfile’s anonymous military sources claim the THAD and Aegis arrived at the Syrian coast aboard the USS Eisenhower.

“The United States now stands ready for direct military intervention in the Syrian conflict when the weather permits,” the news source wrote.

JF-17 Thunder / FC-1 Xiaolong @ Zhuhai Air Show 2012

JF-17 Thunder / FC-1 Xiaolong /Zhuhai Air Show 2012

ISLAMBAD: Thunder, the Pakistan’s pride will participate in the forthcoming Zhuhai Air Show (China) from 13 to 18 November 2012, says a press release issued on Sunday.

The JF-17 Thunder’s Squadron pilots have completed series of aerobatics training drill program and are fully prepared to steal the show on the eve of 9th Zhuhai Air Show.

The multi role all weather JF-17 Thunder is highly maneuverable light combat aircraft with fly by wire flight control.

It stated that co-produced JF-17 has participated in Farnborough Air Show, UK (June 2010), Zhuhai Air Show, China (Nov 2010), Turkish Air Show (Hundred years celebration of Turkish Air Force) at Izmir, Turkey (May 2011) and Dubai Air Show, UAE (Nov 2011). (PPI)

CM-400 AKG

The weapon has been Described as the PAF’s ‘carrier killer’

The CM-400AKG Mach 4 is a plus-capable air-to-surface weapon Developed in China and now in service with JF-17 aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force. (Robert Hewson) The weapon, Designated CM-400AKG, was designed and Developed in China by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) and was Revealed at Airshow China 2012, held in Zhuhai from November 13 to 19.

The CM-400AKG is now part of the operational weapon set of the PAF’s JF-17 Thunder multirole fighter. “This is a mature weapon has been fully tested That. It is not conceptual. It is in service,” Air Commodore Khalid Mahmood, PAF JF-17 Deputy Project Director stated. “The CM-400AKG is a very high-speed missile that is very Difficult to intercept. It hits the target at Mach 4 or above and its kinetic impact alone is enough to destroy any high-value target, like an aircraft carrier.”

The CM-400AKG Appeared first, briefly, in public at last year’s Dubai 
Airshow, When a placard for the weapon was Placed alongside to PAF JF-17 – and then removed. The weapon itself was not shown. At the time it was Acknowledged PAF personnel to new Chinese-built air-to-surface stand-off missile. However, the initial assumption That It was a derivative of the C-802 anti-ship missile has PROVED to be very wide of the mark.

The CM-400 is 400AKG kg solid-rocket-powered weapon That Can be Fitted with Either a penetrator or blast / fragmentation warhead. It is a fire-and-forget precision-guided weapon That Can be Fitted with several options seeker, Which are Understood to include an active radar seeker and an imaging infrared seeker with target-recognition (TR) capabilities. PAF sources say the missile can be pre-programmed with digital imagery highly needed for attacks against fixed sites in TR mode, but it can be retargeted in flight Also by using the radar seeker option.

The range of the CM-400AKG is Understood to be in the 180-250 km class. It is designed for use against fixed or what Were Described as “slow moving” targets. Data Indicates That CASIC launch after the CM-400AKG climbs to high altitude and Terminates with a high-speed dive on the target. The PAF describe the missile’s impact velocity as “hypersonic”.

Both CASIC and the PAF note the CM-400AKG That Has Been Developed As A JF-17 weapon. The PAF currently has two squadrons of approximately 36 JF-17s operational. A ten or eleven aircraft Further Have Been Delivered and a third squadron will be Established early next year.

Deploying Patriots in Turkey to take some weeks: US

Deploying Patriots in Turkey to take some weeks: US

Even if NATO foreign ministers approve Turkey’s request to deploy Patriot missiles on the border with Syria as expected, it will still take some weeks to get them in place, a top US official said Monday.

The United States was “hopeful that NATO will be in a position to respond positively and agree to help Turkey bolster its air defences,” a senior State Department official said.

But he told reporters travelling with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that, even if NATO foreign ministers give the green light at their talks in Brussels this week, “it wouldn’t be an absolutely immediate deployment.”

“If NATO takes a positive decision to do it… I think it would still probably be at least a matter of weeks,” the official said, asking to remain anonymous, as Clinton arrived in the Czech Republic on the first stop of a five-day Europe trip.

The missiles, made by the US giant Lockheed Martin, would likely be supplied by Germany, The Netherlands or the United States.

A site survey being carried out along with German and Dutch experts still needs to be completed, the US official said.

“NATO might agree to do this but any contributions of Patriot missiles would be national decisions by the countries that are providing them. It hasn’t happened yet, and it’s not likely to happen by Tuesday,” the US official said.

He stressed the NATO talks in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday, due to be attended by Clinton, may approve the deployment but “what I wouldn’t expect is a very concrete outcome on details like numbers, and sites.”

“The site survey needs to do its work before we’ll be in a position to say exactly how many Patriots or where they might go, and for how long.”

Logistically it would also take time to deploy the batteries and install them.

Military sources in Turkey have said NATO is considering the deployment of up to six Patriot batteries, with some 300-400 foreign troops to operate them.

The official also ruled out the notion that deploying the defensive missiles would lead to a de-facto safe haven for rebels and refugees along Turkey’s border with Syria.

And he said the issue of whether to set up a no-fly zone to help the opposition seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not “on the agenda for any NATO talks this week.”

Dangerous Crossroads: NATO Missiles in Turkey Pointing at Syria

NATO has approved of stationing US-made Patriot missiles along Turkey’s border, for what it claims is “defense.” Over the past two years Syria has been fighting terrorists armed, funded, and equipped by NATO, of which Turkey is a member. Turkey has admitted its role in harboring and providing logistics for foreign fighters flooding across the border into Syria, many of whom are confirmed members of Al Qaeda. Despite this, Syria has gone through extraordinary lengths to avoid a confrontation with Turkey.

A Patriot missile system. NATO Source Alliance News Blog reported on November 4, 2012, 
“Turkey plans to officially request NATO deploy a Patriot missile defense system in its territories as a security precaution against a potential large-scale military offensive from Syria as Syrian shelling on the border raises tensions.” In reality, US officials have admitted the purpose of the missiles are to impose a no-fly zone over northern Syria

Pakistan Tests Automated Strategic Command Control & Support System

Pakistan Tests Automated Strategic Command Control and Support System                                  

                                

Pakistan's Army Strategic Force Command has successfully tested National Command Authority’s fully automated Strategic Command and Control Support System (SCCSS) during the recent test of the Hatf V Ghauri I Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM).

Automated Strategic Command and Control Support System has been developed for the robust Command and Control capability over all the nuclear weapons and their delivery systems of Pakistan.

Hatf V Ghauri I Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) is the only liquid fuel missile in Pakistan's inventary and it has range of around 1300 kms.