Inside the Battle: Al Nusra-Al Qaeda in Syria (Trailer)



VICE News filmmaker Medyan Dairieh gains exclusive access to the Syrian branch of al Qaeda, al Nusra, a jihadist group fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the Islamic State (IS).

Spending more than a month with al Nusra and exploring their expanding territory, Dairieh meets the highest-ranking members of the organization, who reveal their identity on screen for the first time and discuss their military doctrine.

Al Nusra, which swore allegiance to al Qaeda two years ago and is now emerging as a powerful force to rival IS in Syria, has seized several strategic towns in the northwestern province of Idlib. While it supplies water, electricity, and food to the local population, a school run by al Nusra is also grooming young boys to become the next generation of al Qaeda and preparing them for jihad.

VICE News also secures exclusive access to the frontlines of the battle for Abu Al-Duhur airport in Idlib, a major airbase held by Assad's forces, besieged by al Nusra for two years. Aided by dust storms during the attack, the airport was the last remaining government stronghold in the region. Dozens of government soldiers were subsequently executed, according to the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

https://news.vice.com/video/inside-the-batt...n-syria-trailer

do we want to be like china or a high HDI country?

BUK producer detonates missiles next to pilot’s cockpit in full-scale MH17 experiment (VIDEO)

Almaz-Antey carried out two experiments simulating explosions near MH17. They determined the missile was an older BUK model 9M38 fired from an area under Ukrainian forces’ control, contesting the preliminary findings of the Dutch-led investigation.



https://www.rt.com/news/318505-almaz-antey-video-simulation/

Iran touts new torpedo technology, test-fires domestically developed system





http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/10/13/ira...ped-system.html

US military to begin final test of “smart gun” that can kill enemies hiding behind cover







While high explosive shells are the only ones currently available for the XM25, others, including armor-piercing and nonlethal rounds, are planned.

Early next year, the US Army will begin acceptance testing of a weapon that seems like it's straight out of Call of Duty Advanced Warfare: the XM25 Counter Defilade Engagement System, a "smart" grenade launcher from Orbital Sciences subsidiary Orbital ATK. The XM25 is designed to be an "anti-defilade" weapon—its purpose is to allow soldiers to hit targets shielded by cover.

The XM25 has a built-in "target acquisition and fire control system" that allows any soldier with basic rifleman skills to operate it effectively—the soldier points the weapon's target selector down range, and a laser rangefinder determines how far away it is. The soldier can add additional distance to clear obstacles, and the fire control computer gives the soldier a new aiming point to put the round on target, as well as setting the fusing of the grenade in the chamber. The grenade doesn't have to strike anything to explode, so it can detonate in the air over whatever or whoever might be hiding behind a vehicle, wall, or entrenchment.

The XM25 has been in development since the middle of the last decade. It was originally developed by Alliant TechSystems, which was acquired by Orbital Sciences. In 2010, the Army's PEO Soldier program office sent prototypes of the XM25 to Afghanistan for "forward operational assessment"—use in actual combat to see how it performed. PEO Soldier's Lt. Colonel Chris Lehner said in a post about the field tests that the "introduction of the XM25 is akin to other revolutionary systems such as the machine gun, the airplane, and the tank, all of which changed battlefield tactics. No longer will our Soldiers have to expose themselves by firing and maneuvering to eliminate an enemy behind cover. Our Soldiers can remain covered/protected and use their XM25 to neutralize an enemy in his covered position. This will significantly reduce the risk of U.S. casualties and change the way we fight."

According to Orbital ATK, the XM25 can accurately hit a "point target" at 500 meters and hit targets with area airbursts at up to 700 meters. The semi-automatic grenade launcher, built by Heckler & Koch, is a semi-automatic that carries five 25 millimeter shells per clip. Non-lethal, armor-piercing, and door-breaching rounds are under development in addition to the high-explosive airburst shell currently in production.

The Army is also testing a smart grenade to work with existing rifle-mounted 40 millimeter grenade launchers. Called the Small Arms Grade Munition, the grenade round can detect when it passes over an obstacle and explode once it has cleared it.



http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-techn...-behind-things/

Read more: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blo...st.aspx?ID=1982

Kinda hard to accept this simulation when compared to the actual thing where the plane was thousands of feet in the sky when the settings are much different

http://www.janes.com/article/55195/indones...-han-122-rocket

By Sam Kiley, Foreign Affairs Editor

Bahrain and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are in negotiations to buy the Israeli-developed Iron Dome anti-missile system to defend against "a growing arsenal of Iranian missiles".

The Israeli weapon, which has reduced the effectiveness of rockets fired out of Gaza into Israel by about 90% would be bought through Raytheon and other American contractors who developed the Iron Dome with Israeli arms giant Rafael.

A deal for the whole of the GCC, which includes Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, would be worth tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars.

It would also include longer range interceptor missiles such as David's Sling, and the Arrow I and Arrow II which are capable of intercepting supersonic intercontinental ballistic missiles - also a joint venture between Israel and the US.

Khalid bin Mohammed al Khalifa, Bahrain's foreign minister said on the visit to London: "The Israelis have their small Iron Dome. We'll have a much bigger one in the GCC."


Play video "Israel's 'Iron Dome' Explained"

Video: Israel's 'Iron Dome' Explained
The sale of Israeli-developed weapons to a Gulf state, or states, would have been controversial for both the Israelis and the buyers a few years ago.

But both now see one of the main threats to them as the growing military strength and ambitions of Iran.

The US is quietly playing the "middle man" in the deal as a sweetener to bitterness caused in the Gulf over what the leadership in that region believe is a "naive" deal with Iran over its nuclear weapons programme.

"Iran has been trying to undermine and topple government in our region for years," the Bahrain foreign minister said.

He said that Iran's precision missile capacity was certain to increase as a consequence of the lifting of sanctions following the internationally brokered agreement with Tehran to end its nuclear weapons development.


Play video "'This Is A Bad Mistake'"

Video: 'This Is A Bad Mistake'
"They will put a lot of money into this programme to develop techniques and tactics to defeat our missile defences ... the strategy appears to be one of saturation to stockpile enough missiles to overwhelm any defence system we build in the Gulf," he added.

As a result of this perceived threat, plans to buy Israeli weapons, via the US, would result in a profits bonanza for both American and Israeli firms.

Talks are understood to be well advanced.

One senior Gulf government source said: "If Netanyahu were not making less of a mess of things and was more like Anwar Sadat (who signed a peace deal for Egypt with Israel) then we would be happy to buy the missiles straight from Israel."

Israel developed its anti-missile systems to defend against Gaza's rockets in part but overwhelmingly against Hezbollah's arsenal in southern Lebanon.


Play video "Iran Claims Israel Drone Shot Down"

Video: Iran Claims Israel Drone Shot Down
Israeli sources claim that this includes weapons capable of precision attacks on any target inside the Jewish State as well as up to 100,000 other missiles of less capability and accuracy which have been accumulated to try to overwhelm the Iron Dome and other systems with Iranian funds and supplies.

Led by Saudi Arabia, GCC nations are locked in a bloody conflict with Shi'a Houthi rebels in the Yemen which western and Gulf intelligence sources insist are backed by Tehran.

The GCC's fears of an Iranian threat increasing when sanctions are lifted has been further deepened by Tehran's growing alliance with Moscow which, like Iran, has come to the military defence of the government of Bashar al Assad in Syria.

As a Shi'a-Russian crescent of influence is seen spreading across the Middle East so Gulf States have been privately reaching out to the old enemy to Israel.

Now with a potentially massive arms sale, those relations are begin to emerge from the shadows of regional rivalries.

http://news.sky.com/story/1568834/gulf-sta...ron-dome-system

Massive Show Of Firepower In Russian/Syrian Offensive

Syrian troops, with the help of Russian airpower, have continued to advance, gaining ground from anti government forces during the current offensive in Syria.

The following video shows various Russian airstrikes against rebel groups in Idlib. At the end of the video an absolutely devastating barrage of what is believed to be BM-30 “Smerch” rocket cluster munitions explode in a single location for several minutes.



https://www.funker530.com/massive-show-of-f...rian-offensive/

by right should be MMEA job，but now most country Navy also do anti-piracy job, so wider protection.
also MMEA no base in that area. but we have navy base at that area.

Air force now able to launch long-range, precision strikes





http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-10...nt_22178561.htm

Unleash Hellhound! Northrop Grumman boasts new military buggy has laser weapons 'we would once only see in Star Trek'















http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...-Star-Trek.html

A walk around Sikorsky “Raider,” contender for world’s fastest military copter















http://arstechnica.com/information-technol...ilitary-copter/

Indonesian military visits PH Army in Maguindanao, exchange knowledge





http://www.interaksyon.com/article/118908/...hange-knowledge

Mystery in Iraq .. 76 military vehicles disappear



Iyad Allawi, head of the National List coalition, revealed the disappearance of seventy six military armored vehicles, pointing out that he personally requested them from an Arab country that sent them to Iraq. Allawi said that the Iraqi Defense Ministry told him that it did not receive any military armored vehicles from any country. On the other hand, Iraqi military sources stated that militias operating within the Popular mobilization backed by Iran took over these armored vehicles while a number of Iraqi MPs greatly insist on impeding the demand to open the investigation in the parliament on the disappearance of these armored vehicles.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/webtv/repo...-disappear.html

Russia to US: Quit Cruise Missile Fairy Tales, Deal With ISIL Toyotas



MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia is calling on the United States to stop telling fairy tales about Russian cruise missiles and to better handle the problem of off-road Toyota pickups ending up in the hands of the Islamic State in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday.

“Undisclosed sources make comments on missiles falling, but they don’t even know how IS militants got off-road Toyotas, so you don’t need to tell us fairy tales about Russian cruise missiles, but better to handle your jeeps,” Zakharova said during a briefing.

She said the Toyotas were delivered to Syria by the United States and Great Britain.

“Now everyone’s asking themselves the question of why IS militants, and not only them, but militants from other terrorist groups, are using off-road vehicles that were produced by Toyota, and the most important thing is where did the IS get them in such quantity. The answer to that question needs to be found not in the regions under the control of the IS, or even more so in Japan…the answer is banal. No one probably expected it. But these off-road Toyotas were delivered to Syria by our American and British colleagues themselves,” Zakharova said.

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151014/1...ia-US-ISIL.html

Golez: China building defense triangle at sea





http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/730721/golez-...triangle-at-sea