| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Follow Up Article to Syria Buying $1 billion in Russian Weapons |
| 2010-05-17 |
| Followup to the earlier article today, this one from Defense Industry Daily A Cut-Out Purchase? Kommersant cites a number of indicators that this may be the case, including a Janes report in May 2007 that a similar arrangement has being used to funnel some of Syrias 36 new Pantsir-S1E air defense systems to Iran in exchange for a fences (sorry, "intermediary") fee. They also cite the 2 countries recent mutual defense agreements, including the July 2006 agreement signed by both countries defense ministers, which envisaged Iranian financing of Syrian arms deals with Russia, Ukraine and China. In response, Russian authorities have issued non-denial denials. Russias Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement that "...all of Russias deals in the sphere of military-technical cooperation comply with international law and Russias obligations under various treaties and United Nations resolutions." Since none of those obligation prohibit sales to Syria, this response is utterly meaningless. I'm not entirely sure they even prohibit sales to Iran. Sergei Chemezov, head of state arms-trading monopoly Rosoboronexport, is quoted as saying that "Russia has no plans to deliver fighter jets to Syria and Iran." Of course, a sale of fighter jets only to Syria would comply with this statement -- and if the Syrians choose to send them to Iran, that concerns Syrias plans and not Russias.... "That's not my department, says Werner Von Braun..." |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #1 MALAYSIA also repor desires RUSSIAN ADMS + INDIAN AIR FORCE to train the Malaysian Air Force. HMMMMM, HMMMMM, FAILURE-PRONE RUSS MILSYS + CRASH-PRONE/HAPPT INDIAN AIR FORCE TRAINING > uUh, uh, wehell, thats one way for Malaysia to de facto mil lose to the tradit rival THE PHILIPPINES, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, + ASSORTED PACIFIC ATOLLS??? * ION SYRYUH, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > TURKISH AIR DEFENSE SYSYEMS RE-DEPLOYED TO "DEFEND SYRIA,IRAN" FROM ISRAELI BOMBS [+ US]. No repeat of 2007 by Israel via Turkish airspace. "NO HARM, NO FOUL" FOR NORMAL TURKO-ISRAELI RELATIONS AS LONG AS ISRAEL'S BOMB-EAGLES [US?] DON'T FLY THRU TURKEY. * SAME > US SEVENTH FLEET CONTROL TOMAHAWK LAUNCH FROM 5000 MILES AWAY. * SAME > CHINA LACKS A STRONG NAVAL TRADITION {greatest weaknesses = Lack of LR Overseas Navigation Techniques + Hands-on/Professional Sailor Skills]. Compared to the Western Nations, CHINA PER SE HAS NOT CONDUCTED ANY SERIOUS OTH = OVERSEAS LR EXPLORATION, NAVIGATION SINCE ITS GREAT NAVIGATOR ADMIRAL ZHENG-YE SAILED THE SEAS IN 1433. ARTIC > [Robert Kaplan] CHINA views GUAM, NORTHERN MARIANAS, PHILIPINES, + INDONESIA as EXTENSIONS OF MAINLAND CHINA. PLA ee PLAN [ + PLAAF, PLA 2nd Arty] charged wid conducting effective LR Milops in defense and protection of same. * VARIOUS > MILITARY EXPERTS: RUSSIAN AIR [+ SPACE] DEFENSES NOT FIT/READY FOR ANY PURPOSE. * WMF > "WEEKLY VOICE" RUSS MEDIA: DESPITE ON-GOING VITAL MODERNIZATIONS CHINA REMAINS ONLY A SECOND-TIER/LESSOR REGIONAL MIL POWER COMPARED TO POST-COLD WAR RUSSIA. A RUSSO-CHINESE LIMITED MIL CONFLICT LIKELY TO SERIOUSLY DAMAGE OR DESTROY CHINA. SAME > SUPER-FALKLANDS WAR IN ASIA/CHINA SEAS: SINO-JAPANESE NON-NUCLEAR WAR SCENARIO OER THE DAOYUS AND DISPUTED EAST CHINA SEAS ISLANDS WILL LIKELY NOT INVOLVE PLA, JSDF GROUND FORCES, BUT WILL INVOLVE AIR, NAVAL, LR MISSLE [SRBMS, IRBMS], COMMANDO AND SPACE WARFARE CONVENTIONAL FORCES. SINO-JAPANESE NAVAL, AIR BATTLES WILL BE UNPRECEDENTED IN BOTH SCALE AND REGIONAL HISTORY, AND FIERCELY FOUGHT. SAME > DISASTER OF "NUCLEAR/STRONG JAPAN" FOR CHINA. SINO-JAPANESE MAJOR WAR FOR LEADERSHIP, TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY IN EAST ASIA MAY SPREAD TO MIL-STRONG, ECON-WEAK WEAK RUSSIA [Russ Far East= NorPac/North China Seas Front agz Japan], FRUSTRATED ANTI-CHIN INDIA [Malaccas Oil-Gas,Other Trade routes]. SAME > NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR FUSION CLAIMS CAN UPSET THE GEOPOL BALANCE OF POWER IN CENTRAL-EAST ASIA. THREAT OF DPRK ADVANCED HYDROGEN AND THERMONUCLEAR BOMBS MAY FORCE CHINA TO ASSERT UNILATERAL MIL OR SOVEREIGN CONTROL OER NORTH KOREA [Vassal-Buffer State] AGZ US/UN-LED INTERNATIONAL OCCUPATION OF NORTH KOREA. RISE OF UIGHUR/ISLAMIST SEPARATIST THREAT + ATTACKS AGZ CHINA DUE TO THE DPRK NUCLEAR THREAT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-17 23:31 |