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-Land of the Free
Brave man named 'Ely' ignores security - YouTube's NYC migrant center
[Gateway] New York, New York — A New York man refused to let a group of security officers and workers stop him from recording footage of a facility housing illegal aliens on Monday.

The man, who goes by Ely, recorded footage of his encounter, which was then posted on YouTube and later went viral on X (formerly Twitter).

What ensued was a tour de force laden with F words and other colorful language directed at the individuals attempting to violate his constitutional rights. Ely refuses to budge an inch even when they surround him.

Ely is able to turn the tables on the officers in the end and record in peace.

The video clip on X begins with Ely walking up to the facility before being stopped by a supposed security officer who tells him he cannot take footage of inside the facility or outside.

Ely then demands to know the man’s name who responds like a wise guy by asking who he is. This back and forth goes on for a few seconds before another security officer arrives.

This second officer says he cannot stand there while Ely continues to protest. The first officer then sarcastically replies "okay, you win, you win."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2023 07:25 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Dude has guts.

Weird the NYPD had a party bus parked right across the street. So weird.

That officer, well, he ain't in any shape to do anything except shoo off 'loiterers'; he did exactly what he was posted to do - intimidate people making recordings.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2023 19:37 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud tells Israeli media he ‘needs help’ from Israel
[MiddleEastEye] Massoud's comments were made to Israeli media, though his National Resistance® Front denies any exchange took place

The exiled leader of Afghanistan’s main armed resistance has reportedly said he is willing to seek assistance from Israel in his group’s fight against the ruling Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
government.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  help from any party that wants to support us, including Israel

What about a pony?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/06/2023 1:16 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Surprise! Female volunteers in Sudan face murder, rape, and harassment
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Female volunteers in Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
are facing increasing pressure, including murder, rape, and harassment, in conflict areas.
"Flexible Benefits"
On October 2, 2023, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) members assassinated Siham Hassan Mustafa, a member of the al-Jarif West Emergency Room and the Women’s Response Room, which works to support women affected by the war. Mustafa was shot in the head and chest while trying to protect herself and her family during a raid on their home by the RSF. Another woman was raped during the raid.

On September 28, volunteers accused members of the RSF of raping a Khartoum Bahri Emergency Room member at gunpoint while she was working to assess the needs of those affected by the military conflict in the region.

In areas under the control of the Sudanese army, security forces have restricted and suppressed the freedom of female volunteers to engage in humanitarian work.

In the Blue Nile region, the activities of a feminist awareness initiative were frozen on the pretext of violating the voluntary work law. In Gedaref State in eastern Sudan, a police force took away one of the activists while organizing an educational seminar targeting women to combat the cholera epidemic spreading in the state. In the Nile River State, authorities arrested three female volunteers and prevented them from practising humanitarian work.

In addition to the rape of the emergency room member in Khartoum Bahri, Sudan Tribune learned from reliable sources that members of the RSF also raped a female doctor on her way home from work. She received treatment in a shelter in Bud Madani, the capital of al-Jazira State.

A responsible at the shelter centre who supervised the survivor’s treatment said the doctor preferred to keep the matter secret for fear of her reputation and standing in society. This confirms that many victims of sexual assault choose to remain silent for fear of societal stigma.
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Burkina Faso: former president Thomas Sankara elevated to the rank of ''national hero''
[AFRICANEWS] Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job...
's transitional government decided on Wednesday to elevate former president and father of the Burkinabe revolution Thomas Sankara, killed on 15 October 1987 in a putsch, to the rank of "hero of the nation".
That does him little to no good, since he's been dead since Blaise took power. Blaise did apologize to his family a couple years ago. Sankara was the guy who renamed Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (Land of the Uncorruptables or something like that.) I think once you make captain in the Uncorruptable army you're eligible to become dictator.
"The Council (of Ministers) adopted a decree recognising the late Captain Isidore Thomas Noël Sankara as a hero of the nation", the minutes said, transmitted to AFP.

"The consecration of the status of hero of the nation" to Thomas Sankara "aims to perpetuate the cardinal values on which the Republic is founded", the government explained.

Thomas Sankara, a pan-African icon who came to power in a coup in August 1983, was killed on 15 October 1987 by his number two, Blaise Compaoré.

That day, the Burkinabe president was meeting at the headquarters of his National Revolutionary Council (CNR) when a commando of coup soldiers arrived and shot him and his lover companions dead.

The status of "hero of the nation" was created in June 2022 to honour people who have distinguished themselves by their "exceptional bravery in the defence of a national cause", or their "exceptional and honourable prowess for the nation".

After Mr Sankara's death, Blaise Compaoré remained in power until a popular uprising led to his downfall in 2014.

In April 2022, after a six-month trial, the military court in Ouagadougou sentenced Mr Compaoré, who lives in Côte d'Ivoire, in absentia to life imprisonment for his role in the liquidation of Thomas Sankara.

First buried in a cemetery on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the bodies of Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions were exhumed on 25 May 2015 for the purposes of legal proceedings before being buried in a memorial erected on the very site of their liquidations.

A "national and international ceremony to pay tribute to the victims will be organised on 15 October 2023 to honour their memory", according to the government.

The transitional president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has regularly paid tribute to Thomas Sankara since coming to power in a coup on 30 September 2022.
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan rabbi to Armenian Jews: 'Leave Before It's Too Late'
[Jpost] Rabbi Zamir Isayev, a prominent figure in the Jewish community of Azerbaijan, issued an immediate and dire warning on Thursday amidst the escalating war between Azerbaijan and Armenia: "I repeat my call to the Jews in Armenia: Leave, and if you need help, I'll take care of it. Leave before it's too late..."

...In the tweet, Isayev added: "A few weeks ago I warned that staying in Armenia is dangerous for Jews. Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry raised the possibility of violence against Jews twice during the last month. The reason is Israel's close relations with Azerbaijan, and also the fact that we, rabbis, oppose the usage of the Holocaust topic for propaganda purposes."
Armenia was perfectly safe under Russian protection, and then they were offered some $$$ by USA
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/06/2023 01:09 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
'Friendship of Peoples': migrants rape Swedes, and the Swedes began to hang them
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Viktor Lavrinenko

[REGNUM] An unusual trial has begun in Sweden - teenagers who committed lynching of an Egyptian rapist are being tried. What happened is very symbolic for this country. In Sweden, migrants from the third world are rampaging - killing, robbing, raping. Ordinary Swedes can only curse the politicians who ensured the importation of a critical mass of unfriendly “guests” into the country. Or try to establish justice on your own and according to your own understanding, which is what happened in this case.

YOUNG AVENGERS
At the beginning of 2023, at least 34.62% of Swedish residents were of foreign origin: between the ages of 35 and 44 - about 44.12%; from 25 to 34 years old - 41.19%, children from 5 to 9 years old - 40.37%.

The largest share of the population is made up of immigrants in large cities such as Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg.

Moreover, it is migrants who make up the majority of the Swedish criminal world. Stockholm and other large cities are tormented by wars of ethnic gangs, consisting of representatives of unemployed youth who come from migrant families from the Third World. The victims of these wars often turn out to be completely innocent citizens.

One of the most common crimes committed by migrants is rape.

And, as life shows, desperate Swedes, disappointed in their police, begin to fight back against the rapists themselves. The proof was a recent sensational case.

Last year, a 14-year-old girl contacted the Swedish police and said that she had been raped by a 26-year-old taxi driver originally from Egypt. But the police considered the facts presented to be insufficient and, due to the “lack of evidence,” refused to check and initiate a criminal case.

And on March 26, near the city of Enköping, an empty taxi was discovered stuck in the snow. Apparently, the driver left the car quite recently - the meter in the car was still working. The police called to the scene suspected a kidnapping and a search team with dogs was called to the scene.

The search for the taxi driver dragged on for five days, although his dead body hung only half a kilometer from the car. He turned out to be the same Egyptian whom a year earlier a minor girl had accused of rape.

The investigation showed that the taxi driver was lynched by a group of teenagers. Having received a refusal from law enforcement officers, the girl, together with her boyfriend (he was 16 years old at that time), thought out a plan for revenge. In March, she wrote to the taxi driver and made an appointment with him. But along with her, the girl’s boyfriend and his three brothers (15, 17 and 18 years old) came to meet the Egyptian. They crowded onto the taxi driver, tied him up with the tape they had brought with them, and hung him in the forest - on a rope by the neck.

At the same time, the girl did not bother to delete her correspondence from her phone. There, in one of her messages, she mentioned that her boyfriend’s brothers were preparing to meet. “They will meet my rapist, hee hee hee,” the girl wrote. And on the night before the murder, she sent a message to the taxi driver, asking him to meet her in a deserted place and bring vodka with her. Later, she sent a message to one of her acquaintances that her rapist was dead. This became proof of her guilt. In addition, the teenagers' DNA matched that collected on the tape and rope.

However, although the girl admitted that she lured the man to this area, she claims that the guys only wanted to teach the taxi driver a lesson, and not to kill him. It happened by chance...

The prosecutor's office, for its part, claims that the death of the Egyptian" was extremely painful and had the nature of an execution."

The press writes that one of the main issues of the upcoming trial will be to find out: could the murder have been prevented if the police had listened to the girl’s complaint at one time?

POWERLESS CURSES
Not long ago, the case of another taxi driver-rapist, a native of Somalia named Abdirashid Adan Mohamud, made a splash in Sweden.

He entered Sweden illegally using false documents in 2017, and performed his “exploits” between August 2021 and February 2022. The Somali man locked the women in his car and took them out of town, where he raped them.

Swedish prosecutors charged him with sixteen counts: two completed rapes, three attempted rapes, two “sexual assaults,” seven attempts at unlawful detention, one assault and identity theft. For these crimes he received a four-year and nine-month prison sentence, followed by deportation and a ban on returning to Sweden for ten years.

Last December, the Swedish publication Samnytt published material, the author of which, Mattias Albinsson, examined 370 cases of cancellation of taxi driver licenses by the Swedish Transport Agency that occurred between January and November 2022. The journalist concluded that all taxi drivers who rape or harass their customers are immigrants. The main “hero” of the article he wrote was the aforementioned Abdirashid Adan Mohamud, but in addition to him, seven more immigrant taxi drivers (all seven came from third world countries) who raped female passengers also lost their licenses in 2022.

One of them, a Pakistani man, abused a fourteen-year-old girl in the back seat of his car, and a few weeks later got into an argument with a police officer who ordered a taxi home from work. The Pakistani man told the passenger that he hated the police and explicitly threatened him with violence, emphasizing that he now knew where he lived.

Ordinary Swedes, when reading such articles, become furious and curse the left-liberal politicians who allowed the influx of crowds of migrants into the country.

Some demand the immediate deportation of exposed criminals or even castration of them. Others leave skeptical comments like this: “No, under current laws they will not be deported. To protect my family from such things, I decided to leave Sweden after fifty years of living there. It’s very sad to see what has been done by politicians over the last twenty years.”

Also, many curse young liberal activists who demand that migrants be given maximum “freedom,” in fact provoking them to commit crimes.

“I remember a young Swedish woman causing a scene on a plane carrying a convicted rapist back to the Middle East. She really succeeded. The police gave up,” writes another commentator. As for the prison sentence (often not too long) to which caught rapists are subjected, in the eyes of the Swedes this is not considered a worthy punishment.

“ We all know they'll get a super-lenient sentence, spending a few months in a luxury 'prison cell' that's nicer than many people's homes. White European men love it when their daughters are raped - that’s why they bring all the immigrants here,” the Swedes write bitterly.

SHOCKING STATISTICS
But complaining is of little use.

In recent years, Sweden has become a leading country in terms of rape, along with the United States, Australia and South Africa. According to statistics, almost every fourth Swede has to go through this nightmare.

But this was not always the case; back in 2006, the number of rapes in Sweden was one third lower than in 2015.

Sometimes these incidents are shocking in their cynicism - as in December 2017, when three gang rapes of young girls occurred in the city of Malmö within a month. Moreover, one of them, a seventeen-year-old girl, who was abused right on the playground, was then brutally beaten. As a result, hundreds of angry citizens came out to protest against the inaction of the authorities, who could not come up with anything better than advising women not to walk alone at night.

Since then the situation has only gotten worse.

“ Rape statistics have been increasing in Sweden for a long time. In fact, it doesn’t even just grow, it rather flies upward faster than a rocket taking off. For example, in 1975, 421 rapes were reported in Sweden per year. And in 2021, their number reached a shocking figure of 9,668 (with a Swedish population of 10.5 million people - author’s note),” notes Swedish independent journalist Peter Imanuelsen.

He adds that the leading Swedish media prefer to sweep the dirt under the rug, hushing up the problem. He sees the reason for the sharp increase in the number of rapes in the too lenient sentences and the comfort of Swedish prisons, the cells in which often resemble hotel rooms.

Imanuelsen gives a specific example: “In Sweden there was a man who not only raped two women, but also kidnapped them. What sentence should someone who committed such a thing receive? Well, he was originally sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Quite mild actually. However, it didn't end there. The man was later found to be a minor at the time of the crimes. Therefore, his sentence was considered “too harsh” according to Swedish law, and he was awarded $85,000 in compensation for his time in prison.”

The fact is that when this migrant arrived in Sweden, his age was determined through a medical examination and it was decided that he was an adult. And later it turned out that in fact he had not yet overcome the threshold of adulthood at that time. Swedish bureaucrats realized the mistake and handed the rapist a sum that he hardly even dreamed of while heading to the Scandinavian social paradise.
Posted by: badanov || 10/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Not getting caught is, IMO, the key.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/06/2023 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Hang the politicians. Swedes of foreign origin are NOT SWEDES.
Posted by: Flereck and Company7011 || 10/06/2023 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ^For example Charles XIV John?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/06/2023 6:32 Comments || Top||

#4  The practice of importing cheap foreign labor has a miserable track record of success and brings with it long-lasting social repercussions.

Unfortunately, history is ignored and the practice continues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/06/2023 6:43 Comments || Top||

#5  QUESTIONS:

WHY? Given the known crime issues, why was 14-year-old girl alone in a cab going to begin with, without an Adult Guardian?

HOW? is a few years in a Jail with higher standard of living, than the 3rd Worlder's home country, or current living standards, followed by release to do it again. Considered Justice?

Does This Sound Familiar?
"... It’s very sad to see what has been done by politicians over the last twenty years.”

So could this happen here?
Given the US's existing Voter plantation crime rates and the US Government trash truck style of dumping Illegal and EU style immigrants into focused targeted Metro-destinations then tossing $$$$$ at them. Where the migrants then usually fail to assimilate into US Culture, and adopt US social norms and ways. Only to reinstall carbon copy of what they fled. Coupled with the growing NO-$$$$-Bail Signature releases and the Soros installed DA's social justice practices.

YES I could see this eventually leading to some in retaliations by Metro-Voter Plantation civilians seeking justice here.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/06/2023 6:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Expect to see more of this in the near future. All the while, suppressed by the media, because We're all just happy serfs doing as we are told.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/06/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#7  As I said yesterday, people WILL have justice...if you don't provide something resembling it, they will do it their way. No trials, no appeals, just smile, wait for flash or "Hey, dangle from this tree for a while." What should really concern those in 'power' is these signs that the breaking point has been reached, lest they follow Mussolini's example.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/06/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Martin Beck and Harry Hole nod approvingly.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/06/2023 11:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Concentrating the 3rd world illegals in major urban areas with "no-bail", "defund-the-police" and Soros-Style DA's, and feeding them public assistance while they form "colonia" ghetto's guaranteed to produce exactly what the demokrats plan. Massive MSM news coverage of crime and violence, morning news and night. Voila - National Police Force to solve everything!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/06/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Bear in mind that the first police forces were created to protect criminals from mobs.
The average victim is not actually interested in the legal process, just getting the bastard.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/06/2023 18:29 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Jihad flaunts rocket arsenal at 36th anniversary parade in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Terror group boasts of possessing new Buraq missile drones with 85-kilometer range

Paleostinian button men marched Wednesday through Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
City, brandishing weapons and carrying rockets and drones, in a parade marking the 36th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
movement.

Islamic Jihad forces in the blockaded Gaza Strip have been involved in recent years in several bloody confrontations with Israel, most recently in May when five days of cross-border fighting killed 34 Paleostinians — including six commanders of the terror group — and one Israeli.

An Islamic Jihad official told AFP that around 4,500 members of al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Paleostinian terror group, took part in Wednesday’s parade.

The event showcased domestically produced rockets atop trucks draped in green camouflage fabric, missiles and three types of drones.

"The new Buraq missiles have a range of 85 kilometers (50 miles), and the improved Badr 3 missiles have an explosive warhead weighing 400 kilos (880 pounds)," an al-Quds Brigades front man said.

"One of the missiles that were displayed is locally made and has not yet been used against the enemy (Israel)," the front man added without elaborating.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Drones are dropping like flies.' Iran's military innovations will be useful in the Northeast Military District zone
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Adamov

[REGNUM] The Iranian Air Force is conducting large-scale exercises using various models of drones. The maneuvers take place at training grounds throughout Iran, as well as in the Persian Gulf. According to a statement by the country's Ministry of Defense, about two hundred drones of various types were involved in the maneuvers.

During the exercises, the tactics of using previously known drones of various classes were worked out, from reconnaissance and reconnaissance-strike vehicles like Ababil-3, Ababil-4, Mohajer-6 to various kamikaze drones such as Ababil-2 and Arash. Among other things, group strikes with kamikaze drones were practiced, as well as the destruction of naval targets with their help.

The Iranian military also presented a number of new developments, including drones designed to hunt other drones.

“During the exercises, the units worked out and implemented methods and technical means of electronic warfare,” said the press secretary of the drone exercises, Alireza Sheikh.

According to him, during the maneuvers, methods were tested to jam communications with drones using Ababil-4 and Kamaan-19 drones.

It is assumed that drones can be used as a platform for installing electronic warfare equipment that jams the communication channel between the control center and the enemy drone. In theory, this makes it possible to neutralize the threat posed by a “swarm” with just a few “jammer drones.”

As military expert, author of a number of books on the military-industrial complex of Iran, Yuri Lyamin , said in a commentary for Regnum news agency, work has been underway in Iran for a long time to create a “hunter drone.” Various models of drones are used as carriers for electronic warfare systems.

“Actually, the Iranians have long been using drones as carriers of electronic warfare systems, but usually for this they use specially equipped devices based on serial, previously repeatedly used drones Ababil-4, Mohajer-6 and others. The Kamaan-19 presented at the exercises is an attempt to create a cheaper, specialized drone for these purposes ,” the expert noted.

Iran did not disclose the technical characteristics of the new development. Based on the footage published online, it can be concluded that the Kamaan-19 is an aircraft-type drone that is designed to be launched from a runway. Presumably, the drone has a significant range and can be used to cover air bases from air attacks at a distance of hundreds of kilometers.

Another novelty of the exercises were Karrar drones with an installed anti-aircraft missile. If the tests are successfully completed, drones will be able to be used to destroy large drones or manned aircraft: airplanes and helicopters. Attempts to adapt drones as carriers of anti-aircraft missiles have already been made several times by the Iranian military-industrial complex, but it is still premature to judge the success of the tests, says Yuri Lyamin.

“As for the Karrar drone with an anti-aircraft missile, it should be noted that the Iranians have been actively working in this direction for several years now. Previously, they had already tested Azarakhsh missiles (the Iranian version of the American AIM-9 anti-aircraft missile) from the same model. “At the current exercises, a missile from the Iranian Majid anti-aircraft complex was installed, which is generally newer and more powerful,” the expert said.

Karrar drones were adopted by the Iranian Air Force in 2009. Since then, the basic model has been repeatedly upgraded to perform reconnaissance and attack missions. The maximum range of use without combat load is about 1000 km, but adaptation for strikes reduces it to 400 km. Attempts to adapt Karrar to perform air defense missions have been made since 2017, but it is too early to talk about the result. Even though during the exercise the aerial target was successfully hit.

“It is now difficult to talk about the effectiveness of the combination of a drone and an anti-aircraft missile, but Iran is making serious efforts to create unmanned interceptors. In fact, they are one of the pioneers in this area,” notes Yuri Lyamin.

The specialist also added that Iran is developing loitering anti-aircraft missiles, known by the index given to them by the Americans as “358.” Judging by these developments, Iranian designers are able to combine a high level of innovation and manufacturability to ensure mass production.

In many ways, the past exercises of the Iranian Air Force can be considered a demonstration event.

First, Iran is showing its firepower to other powers in the region - Israel and Saudi Arabia, as well as the United States, which has bases in the Persian Gulf. Also, the demonstration of drones could be used to attract potential buyers of Iranian military products.

Previously, Iran presented a large-scale exhibition at the Russian Army 2023 forum and offered a wide range of drones of various types for export. The Iranian military also presented advanced developments in the field of unmanned aircraft to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his visit to Iran in early September. In particular, “358” ammunition, Shahed-136 drones and a number of other equipment were demonstrated.

Western media believe that Russia may in the future become the largest buyer of Iranian military products. However, Iran is not yet seeking to offer its most advanced developments for export.

“The same Karrar drone and Majid anti-aircraft missiles - also known as AD-08 - are offered for export separately, but the combination of a drone with a missile from this air defense system, as I understand it, has only now been fully tested in exercises. Accordingly, now Iranian specialists must study, evaluate, and so on all the information received. Then the drones should enter service with the Iranian Air Force, and only after that the drones can be presented for export,” notes Yuri Lyamin.

On the other hand, the specialist continues, Iranian developments in the field of drone engineering can attract the attention of foreign buyers due to their ease of operation, relative cheapness and experience of use in real combat conditions.

“As far as I know the Iranian military-industrial complex, parallel similar projects may now be underway there. In general, this is one of the very promising areas that can certainly attract the attention of foreign customers,” sums up Yuri Lyamin.

In theory, successful completion of tests of anti-drone technology could change the rules of warfare.

As Aleksey Chadayev, a public figure and leader of the Dronnitsa movement, previously noted in a commentary for Regnum news agency, the massive use of drones as part of a special military operation by Russian troops in Ukraine has seriously changed the nature of combat operations. The price of an anti-aircraft missile significantly exceeds the cost of a drone, which makes existing anti-aircraft systems ineffective to combat large numbers of drones.

In this sense, the possible appearance of Iranian developments in the Northern Military District zone will seriously reduce the role of enemy strike drones and ultimately seriously change the balance of power in the conflict zone. As military expert and reserve officer Alexander Mikhailovsky said in a commentary to Regnum news agency, drones equipped with electronic warfare systems can significantly complicate the actions of Ukrainian drones.

“The Ministry of Defense regularly gives reports: so many drones and so many missiles were shot down in a day. If we assume that such “mobile electronic warfare” is constantly flying in the sky, then there is no need to shoot down anything. He flies around, jams the signal, drones drop like flies. I don’t know about small-sized drones, but on those that fly 300–500 or 1000 kilometers, installing such equipment is quite possible. Everything will depend on its power. In theory, a massive raid of 20–30 drones can be stopped by 5–6 such “jammers,” the expert noted.

Alexander Mikhailovsky also noted that Karrar drones equipped with anti-aircraft missiles can hunt Ukrainian drones that operate at ultra-low altitudes and remain inaccessible to ground-based air defense systems. “Now they are adapting helicopters to hunt drones so that they can shoot them down with an automatic cannon. Now, maybe drones will hunt helicopters. But I’ll make a reservation that this is all purely theoretical,” the specialist added.

Posted by: badanov || 10/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "The Iranian military also presented a number of new developments, including drones designed to hunt other drones."
I can see it now, future wars being fought with joysticks wielded by 16 year old gamesters at play at Nellis AFB.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 10/06/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||



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