Armed Forces Videos and Pictures

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TCG Gökova guided missile frigate during NATO Counter-piracy mission (Operation Ocean Shield)

Is it possible the PN will give away the OHP to Turkey or Turks will buy it with US permission as its of no use to PN. Also any possibility of PN getting some more MPAs with their own money???

Indian T90 tanks >

So how many India is going to acquire T-90s other than those acquired???

 

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So how many India is going to acquire T-90s other than those acquired???

India currently operates 620 T90 tanks. Indian army requires a total of 2011 that will be built at the Heavy Vehicle Factory (HVF) in Indian town Avadi by 2020.

 

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This dogfight between more than 200 Israeli and Syrian jets was one of the biggest of all time

David Nye, We Are The Mighty

In what would come to be called the Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot, 96 Israeli fighters and a squadron of UAVs faced off against 100 Syrian fighters backed up by 19 surface-to-air missile launchers in 1982. It was one of the largest jet battles ever fought.

Israel has a history of fighting with its neighbors, especially from the 1960s through the 1980s. A series of small battles with Egypt resulted in some hard lessons learned for the Israel Air Force after they lost a number of fighters to surface-to-air-missiles.


But the IAF learned their lessons and on Jun. 9, 1982, they attacked 19 Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries deployed near their border. In the first two hours of fighting, the IAF destroyed 17 of the missile batteries with no losses. Then, things really went nuts.

Israeli Air Force F-15s fly in Red Flag 2004.

The Syrians sent up 100 MiGs to intercept the 96 F-15s, F-16s, and F-4s that were attacking the SAM sites. The Israelis were flying an E-2C Hawkeye airborne warning and control system aircraft that picked up the incoming fighters. It began feeding instructions to the IAF fighters.

The more advanced Israeli fighters, firing both Sidewinder heat-seeking and Sparrow radar-guided missiles, destroyed 29 of the Syrian Air Force fighters.

One of the Syrian Air Force’s main fighters in the conflict was the MiG-21, like this one.

But the IAF wasn’t done. There were still two missile sites they wanted gone. So, they returned Jun. 10. Again, the bulk of the Syrian Air Force lifted off to greet them, and the IAF pounded them into the ground, downing another 35 Syrian aircraft with no Israeli losses.

The stunning victory was due to a number of factors. The Israeli pilots had benefited from great training and a lot of combat experience, but the Syrians had also screwed themselves.

The Syrians fed their pilots instructions from a ground control station that couldn’t communicated due to Israeli jamming. In an Air Power Journal article, a Western military observer of the battle says, “I watched a group of Syrian fighter planes fly figure-eights. They just flew around and around and obviously had no idea what to do next.”

Lt. Gen. Leonard Perroots, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency at the time,trashed the lazy deployment of Syrian missile sites. “The Syrians used mobile missiles in a fixed configuration; they put the radars in the valley instead of the hills because they didn’t want to dig latrines–seriously.”

The conflict between the two countries continued through Jul. 1982. In over a month of fighting, Israel lost only two jets while Syria lost at least 87.



http://www.businessinsider.com/this...ts-was-one-of-the-biggest-of-all-time-2015-11