Transdniestria has targeted the Eurasian integration

The Transdniestrian president has signed a decree approving a new foreign policy concept whose top priority was called a course for the Eurasian integration."The document fixes the country's foreign policy course determined by the people of TMR and reflects the national idea of Transdniestria ' the Eurasian integration. It is based on the Transdniestrians' will expressed in a referendum on 17 September 2006, when Transdniestria's citizens voted for independence and the subsequent rapprochement with Russia," said the press service of the TMR leader."The whole logic of Transdniestria historical development since the formation of the republic to the present day, suggests that we are an integral part of the Eurasian civilization space," said Shevchuk to journalists.The new concept adjusts the Transdniestrian foreign policy guidelines, highlights and for the first time clearly marks relations with Russia. This is followed by the development of Transdniestria's relations with Ukraine and Moldova. Next - strengthening of relations with Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and only thereafter - with other states and international organizations.

Russian Navy Commissions SSBN Yury Dolgoruky

Russian Navy Commissions SSBN Yury Dolgoruky

Text: Vzglyad

Photo: SSBN Yury Dolgoruky in the White Sea. Forum.sevastopol.info

The Project 955 Borei nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Yury Dolgoruky was commissioned into Russian Navy on Sunday, Dec 30, reported sources in defense industry."Signing of the acceptance certificate was preceded by successful completion of the closing phase of trials, including missiles' guidance command channel. The submarine-launched ballistic missile Bulava was commissioned along with the submarine. In the new year, Yury Dolgoruky will be in experimental service", the insider told Interfax.As for him, the acceptance certificate was signed at Sevmash shipyard on Sunday in the presence of deputy defense minister Yury Borisov, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov, president of United Shipbuilding Corporation Andrei Diachkov, and Director General of Sevmash shipyard Mikhail Budnichenko.Deputy defense minister Yury Borisov earlier told reporters that SSBN Yury Dolgoruky would be commissioned at the end of 2012. "I hope that on December 30 we'll take the sub in service. That would be a kind of a stocking-stuffer, I've already planned out my trip toSevmash", Borisov said then. He pointed out that all defects had been eliminated in accordance with the schedule, including problems of missile guidance channel.

Syria, Iran and the future of the CSTO

Syria, Iran and the future of the CSTO

In May 2007, secretary general of theCollective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha invited Iran to join the alliance, stating that “the CSTO is an open organization. If Iran applies in accordance with our charter, we will consider the application.” Although the CSTO was already dealing with Tehranon several collective security tasks – including the fight against illicit drug trade in Central Asia – Iranian accession to the organization still did not take place, basically due to the ayatollahs’ opposition to join a military bloc clearly dominated by a traditionally rival power of Iran such as Russia.

Established on May 15, 1992, the CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance aimed at ensuring security in the former Soviet space following the collapse of the USSR. As a Moscow-led military organization, the CSTO is often viewed as the natural successor of the Warsaw Pact, having also been described as the “NATO of the East.” Currently consisting of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the CSTO is nevertheless dealing with the likely withdrawal of this latter, following Tashkent’s decision to suspend its participation to the organization in June 2012.

Flux Compression Generator - the EM bomb

E bomb from Awanish Singh

Flux Compression Generator

Magnetic Flux Compression Generators (Magnetocumulative Generators, MCGs) were independently invented by A. Sakharov in Russia and C.M. Fowler in the United States. They are the most powerful Pulsed Power devices ever built. Till the end of the Cold War, the applications of this technology were classified. Today it is possible to give international lectures on these devices and some of their applications.

C.M. Fowler, Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA

L. Altgilbers, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, USA

I. Smith, University of Loughborough, UK

A Flux Compression Generator (FCG) is basically a Directed ElectroMagnetic Pulse (DEMP) gun. There are a number of uses for this technology but most of them are warefare related.

Active Jammer MSP-418K

Marshal Kim Jong Un συγχαίρει τους εργαζόμενους στο Zapadnomorskogo διαστημοδρόμειο μετα  την εκτόξευση  του δορυφόρου "Kvanmenson-3"

Νέος ηγέτης της Βόρειας Κορέας, Marshal Kim Jong Un 12 Δεκέμβρη 2012 ήταν προσωπικά παρών στο Κέντρο Ελέγχου Αποστολής για ένα επιτυχημένο λανσάρισμα της Βόρειας Κορέας Zapadnomorskogo Μπαϊκονούρ πυραύλων "Ynha-3" από τους δορυφόρους "Kvanmenson-3." Ο δορυφόρος εισήλθε στην προκαθορισμένη τροχιά μετά από 9,5 λεπτά μετά από την εκτόξευση ^. έκθεση φωτογραφίας για την παρουσία του στρατάρχη Kim Jong-un στη συγκεκριμένη εκδήλωση είναι διαθέσιμα Μάθετε mar12 Marshal Kim Jong Un συγχαίρει εργαζόμενοι Zapadnomorskogo διαστημοδρόμιο ΛΔΚ με την επιτυχή εκτόξευση του δορυφόρου "Kvanmenson-3" (γ) "Rodong Sinmun ", 16/12/2012 (μέσω mar12.livejournal.com)

Israel’s thermal stealth innovator Eltics

Israel’s thermal stealth innovator Eltics unveiled today a short video depicting the results of recent tests where large thermal panels installed on a Land Rover Defender vehicle managed to eliminate the vehicle’s signature, totally masking the vehicle from the thermal sight’s display.

Following a recent investment refuelling the start-up company, Eltics embarked on the development and testing of a full scale prototype of the Black-Fox active – adaptive – multi-spectral stealth system, to be able to mask a complete vehicle (both sides, front and rear). The system employs a thermal camera that samples the background view and a system processor and controller that recreates the necessary effects on the panels, blending the protected object into the background.

Battaglia per la Siria

First results from ChemCam spectrometer

Roger Wiens, principal investigator for the ChemCam instrument, reported results from ChemCam’s first experiment. ChemCam shot it’s laser on a rock named Coronation.

It’s spectrometers recorded data on 6144 channels, ranging from ultraviolet to infrared light from 240 to 850 nanometers.

Here’s an image of this spectrum, sent back from Mars on August 19, 2012:

You can see emission lines from different elements, including oxygen, silicon and sodium as well as some minor elements like titanium and manganese.

The eye-catching carbon peak comes not from the rock itself, but from the atmosphere of Mars.

Another peak, indicating hydrogen, was only seen on the first laser shot. This most likely means this element was present only on the very surface of the rock.

Faced with a passive radar threat, the United States may find itself unable o achieve air superiority at an acceptable cost. - The L-band “game-changer”

Faced with the prospect of aerial stealth proliferation, states in the 21st century are looking for
antistealth defense options. One such alternative, passive radar, appears a costeffective counter to stealth. Passive radar is a receive-only system that uses transmitters of opportunity.1 Integrating a system of netted

receivers, passive radar can detect, track, and target piloted and unpiloted stealth systems and provide cuing for antiair weapons systems. A passive radar system emits no adio energy and can be well camouflaged in both urban and rural landscapes. The threat ystem produces no indications on friendly radar warning receivers and is difficult to locate and target. Faced with a passive radar hreat, the United States may find itself unable o achieve air superiority at an acceptable cost. the rest here >>  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63539994/22.pdf

Brahmos 2 VS DF 21D , aircarrier killers

DF 21D ASBM :
An anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is a military quasiballistic missile system currently in developement, of medium or intermediate range, designed to hit a warship at sea. Because of speeds typically reaching Mach 10 there are currently no ship-board defense mechanisms that could counter an ASBM in the terminal phase.

ASBM are equipped with a conventional warhead large enough, together with the kinetic energy, that a single hit has the potential to cripple or outright destroy a supercarrier, but unlike nuclear weapons have to hit the target precisely to be effective. Thus, and unlike a typical ballistic missile, which follows a ballistic flightpath after the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight, an ASBM would require a precise and high-performance terminal guidance system.

China has developed and reached initial operating capability of a conventionally-armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) based on the DF-21. This would be the world's first ASBM and the world's first weapons system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers.

BRAHMOS 2 HYPERSONIC ANTI SHIP CRUISE MISSILE:
A hypersonic cruise missile is a cruise missile that would travel at least 6-7 times the speed of sound (MACH 6-7) & is powered by scramjet engine.BrahMos II is a stealth hypersonic cruise missile that is being currently under development that can fly at Mach 7. But brahmos2 may be hydrocarbon based dualmode ramjet & scramjet powered platform or hydrogen powered 
single mode scramjet powered vehicle .
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'Russia and the West Are Drifting Apart'

Vladimir Putin has delayed a planned trip to Turkey following the forced landing of a Syrian plane in Ankara. In an interview, Vladimir Yukanin, a confidant to the Russian president

SPIEGEL ONLINE: You're the initiator of World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations." What is the current state of relations between Russia and the West?

Vladimir Yakunin: We're on a dead-end road. At the same time, we face many common problems. The world order as we once knew it is breaking into pieces. During the Cold War, we at times found ourselves on the brink of nuclear war. The balance of terror ensured a kind of stability -- we were able to avoid a major war. But today's world is no less dangerous, as the conflict along the Syrian-Turkish border shows.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What needs to be done?

Yakunin: A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force. We say that particularly in regards to Syria. We also said that in the run-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003 -- at the time together with Germany and France. Today we know that talk of weapons of mass destruction was only used as a pretext, an American lie told at the highest level of state and presented before the United Nations.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Isn't Russia's support for Syria based on the fact that the country is a traditional partner of the Kremlin?

Yakunin: It is based on the fact that Russia has good knowledge of the Middle East. We think that Assad is still supported by a majority of the population. And we know that Assad's opponents are being armed from abroad.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: An airplane that was en route from Moscow to Damascus believed to be carrying military equipment was just forced to land in Turkey. And Assad is fighting his opponents with helicopters and heavy artillery he has obtained from Russia. Is that not true?

Yakunin: You shouldn't equate the two. Russia has delivered weapons -- and this happened on the basis of long existing contracts -- to the legitimate, internationally recognized government of Syria. But what the West wants is regime change, the toppling of this government. I have no concrete knowledge about the aircraft incident in Turkey.

Riot rage: Athens protesters wellcome Merkel

A rally in the Greek capital turned violent when protesters in Syntagma Square lobbed Molotov cocktails at police, who retaliated by firing tear gas at the demonstrators.

Security forces also reportedly used flashbang grenades and pepper spray to push protesters back from the parliament building. According to Greek newspaper Kathimerin, the police had been ordered to refrain from using chemicals against protesters.

Around 70,000 people, as estimated by Reuters, gathered in front of the parliament for the country’s biggest anti-austerity protest since the new government came to power.

"EU, IMF out!" shouted the angry crowd. 

"For the past two-to-three years we've been living an incredible social catastrophe," one of the protesters told Agence France Presse. "My salary has been cut by 50 percent. I have two children and tomorrow I don't know if I'll have a job."

Clashes erupted in different parts of Athens Syntagma Square, with demonstrators throwing fire bombs at police.

A riot police officer prepares to throw a teargas cannister to protestors during clashes near Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike in Athens.(Reuters / Yorgos Karahalis)

Witnesses reported smoke rising over the square as security forces dispersed most of the protesters. Some remained, and continued the demonstration; others relocated to the streets of Panepistimiou and Benaki, where again started clashing with riot police.

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