New Russian Tank to Appear in 2013 ..(based on object 195?)

New Russian Tank to Appear in 2013

Russia will complete the first prototype of the new Armata main battle tank by 2013 and begin production and deliveries to the Russian Armed Forces in 2015, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and the CEO of tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod Oleg Sienko told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Lenta.ru news portal reported.  Uralvagonzavod and the military are testing the main components of the new tank. No other details were reported. “The Russian armed forces will have a new main tank with fundamentally new characteristics, fully automated loading and separate crew compartment by 2015,” Lieutenant-General Yuri Kovalenko, former First Deputy Head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Automotive Armor Directorate said last April. Kovalenko said work from other projects, including Object 195 and Black Eagle, will be incorporated in Armata's design.

New generation nuclear facility launched in Iran

New generation nuclear facility launched in Iran

 An image grab taken from a broadcast on February 15, 2012 on the state-run Press TV shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inside Tehran's research reactor. Ahmadinejad led a ceremony inserting Iran's first domestically produced, 20-percent enriched nuclear fuel into Tehran's research reactor

Elite Syrian units take by storm rebel-seized area in Damascus

Elite Syrian units take by storm rebel-seized area in Damascus

Elite Syrian Army units, reinforced by infantry combat vehicles, are taking by storm the Barza area, in downtown Damascus, where rebels and terrorists of the so-called Free Syrian Army have been active. Mechanized division units and the Republican Guards have set up checkpoints on the main streets of the area. Heavy fighting has also engulfed other parts of Syria. According to the SANA news agency, a large gang was wiped out in the environs of the city of Aleppo.In Homs, rebels were blocked in several residential quarters. They are firing mortars and blowing up dwelling houses. Earlier today, the rebels exploded the city oil pipeline.

Comdr. of Syria's al-Farouq rebels Abdul Razzaq Talas killed

 << Comdr. of Syria's al-Farouq rebels killed

Syrian rebel group leader Abdul Razzaq Talas, whose al-Farouq group is accused of participation in terror attacks in the country, has been killed.

The Fabric of the Cosmos: What Is Space?

Οι Σύριοι υποδέχονται με ενθουσιασμό τον LAVROF

Οι Σύριοι υποδέχονται με ενθουσιασμό τον LAVROF

Syrian opposition agrees to Russian mediation

The opposition Syrian National Council does not object to Russia coordinating the talks with the Syrian government.

"The Syrian opposition needs all the help there is. Considering the good relations between the Russian and Syrian nations, Russia has a good chance of playing this part," George Sabra, a senior member of the council, told Interfax news agency on Tuesday.  

20 million yr old Antarctic lake 'drilled'

After 30 years spent drilling through a four-kilometer-thick ice crust, researchers have finally broken through to a unique subglacial lake. Scientists are set to reveal its 20-million-year-old secrets, and imitate a quest to discover ET life.

Τhe main inspiration for the project – the Russian scientist who posited the lake’s existence – died just six months before the moment of contact with the lake’s surface.

T-50 vs F-22A. The technology of Quantum Well Imaging Photodetectors (QWIP) will upset the balance

Consider a QWIP technology “OLS-50M” installed in the PAK-FA. Such a device could be design-optimised for simultaneous detection and tracking of aircraft exhausts, jet-plumes and missile flares to ranges of 70 nm and beyond

Suppose the Russians don’t quite master stealth to the degree of the F-22A, but manage a RCS of 0.01 square metres from all aspects. The F-22A’s APG-77 will detect the PAK-FA at ~40 nm and the F-35’s APG-81 at ~30 nm. Passive electronic surveillance might increase detection ranges, but this still makes long-range missile shots problematic, as tracking depends upon the opponent emitting, which smart opponents will try not to do.

The PAK-FA’s radar can be expected to be an improvement on the IRBIS-E so at front-on aspects might detect the F-22A at ~15 nautical miles and the F-35 at ~28 nautical miles; and from side and rear aspects, the F-22A at ~43 nautical miles and the F-35 at ~51 nautical miles. 

Infrared sensors are the next growth area in air combat. Every air combat jet has unavoidable infrared signatures – converting kerosene into thrust at prodigious rates does that. The existing OLS-35, developed for the Su-35BM, is credited with the ability to detect a ‘fighter type’ target head on from 27 nautical miles, and from behind at around 50 nautical miles, through a 90° sector. It uses conventional detector technology, and provides similar performance to the Eurofighter Typhoon PIRATE infrared sensor.

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SSN Nerpa Handed Over to India

Project 971U Schuka-Bnuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) K-152Nerpa has been leased to Indian Navy; the handing-over ceremony was held on Jan 23 atZvezda Shipyard in Bolshoi Kamen (Primorsky Krai), an undisclosed informed source told Interfax. 

The siege of Leningrad... lifted 27 January 1944

Siege of Leningrad
The siege continued until 27 January 1944

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The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Russian:блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last land connection to the city was severed. Although the Soviets managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, lifting of the siege took place on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. It was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties.....

The Situation in Transdniestria Is Like a Carefully Orchestrated Campaign

The Situation in Transdniestria Is Like a Carefully Orchestrated Campaign

Another protest action organized by the Moldovan side took place at the peacekeeping post No. 9 on the bridge over the Dniester River. A group of Moldovan citizens attacked the peacekeeping post, having pulled out the road signs installed at the post and broken the bar. 

Notwithstanding that chairman of the Dubossary district of Moldova, Gregory Polichinsky, who spearheaded the campaign, called on the audience to a peaceful protest, the protesters made a brawl with each other, quarreled because some protesters from Kishinev called to ?push the matter through?. The fight was stopped through the intervention of Moldovan policemen in place. 

Russia’s Bulava Carrying Sub to Enter Service by June

Russia’s newest nuclear-powered submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, will be put into operation in the second quarter of the year, the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Friday.

The Borey-class Project 955 sub will be armed with the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missilesbut a USC representative said it was yet to be decided when the troubled missile will enter service.

The sub’s construction began in 1996 at the Sevmash shipyard and was completed in 2008. It has a crew of 130 and will be armed with 16 Bulava SLBMs and six SS-N-15 cruise missiles.