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Looks like Russians have some trouble with English, however, this is an interesting article from a Russian website:
Nikolai Egorov,
Especially for Iran.ru
27 august 2014
Downed on Sunday over the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz Israeli drone - a great example of that, in spite of "peaceful" applications of Western politicians, the Islamic Republic remains a subject of espionage and sabotage operations. At the same time, destroyed the UAV "Hermes" - more than a convincing argument, proving that at least two myths - the Iranian technological backwardness and military-technological superiority of Israel - are invalid.
Air defense forces of the Revolutionary Guards, which is entrusted with the task of protecting strategic sites, in particular those related to nuclear and missile programs of the Islamic Republic, in contrast to the history in 2011 with the American drone, this time did not spend much effort on the "landing" of the Israeli drone. Radar detected the appearance of "Hermes" in the area of Natanz (240 kilometers south of Tehran), target designation given trigger calculation, who worked as "excellent", after covering high-tech product of the Israeli military-industrial complex with the first missiles "ground-to-air" Iranian production.
Informing about the incident, Head of the IRGC Public Relations, Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said that the drone individual blocks were found at the crash site intact, and Iranian specialists are now intensively studying trapped in their disposal of the "stuffing" of the Israeli drone. Downed "Hermes 450", according to the foreign press - multi-purpose reconnaissance UAV developed by the Israeli company Silver Arrow, subsidiary of Elbit Systems. First flew in 1994, the cost of a complex that includes terrestrial systems - about $ 10 million, but the actual UAV costs about $ 2 million.
However, leave the performance characteristics of the art. In the history of the downed drone is a couple of points that are somewhat shifted focus and make a different perspective on the event. Firstly, according to some sources, this drone can carry missiles "air-land" and has already been used by the Israelis to "point" the destruction of the leaders of the Palestinian Hamas and the attacks on military infrastructure of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Second, the remarkable feature of "Hermes" is that it is effective only if the almost complete absence of enemy air defense systems. How to formulate experts "is a complex of a specific region: the use of certain limits, clear sky, no counter."
Political cynicism and "reconnaissance"
No special need to conduct a reconnaissance mission near Natanz was not. This area, where one of the key objects of the Iranian nuclear program, literally "tweaked" by foreign observers and spy satellites. If all the money that the United States, Israel and their allies spent on intelligence operations in the area to invest in improvements, then this, just desert area, it could be equipped with a blooming oasis with fountains and flower beds of roses. On the other hand, Iran's air defense system can not be called weak. Having received no Russian S-300, the Iranians did not hit rock bottom, and have made every effort and money to create a multi-level air defense system relying on their own capabilities. And with this in mind that Israel is well aware, send a "clear-sky drone" in the area where the density of the air defense cover even higher than usual - is, at first glance, sheer stupidity.
Israeli military and intelligence may be largely to blame, blame deservedly so, but the special folly for them not to notice. And so the story of the "Hermes" means one thing - the application of the doctrine on Iranian strategic targets massive strike "swarms of drones," as one of the Israeli military professionals, not only removed the military-political leadership of Israel from the agenda, but also continues to work on specific operations. Including through similar initially doomed to failure UAV flights.
Israeli settlements in the continuation of mining this doctrine built on cynicism and impudence: relations with Tehran and so worse than ever, once the incident here will not change anything, and the necessary information, such as Iran's air defense system, will be able to get. In addition, the international situation is favorable: while the Western media hysteria around the Russian humanitarian convoy to Ukraine, while Western politicians a few minutes before the time when a Russian truck will jump thugs special forces hiding in the double walls of vans, Tel Aviv "scrolled "another provocation. And being in full assurance of impunity, because there some violation of international law, the invasion of the airspace of a sovereign state, when shortly before Israel, in the best tradition of the Nazi Sonderkommando, made a punitive raid into Gaza and got off for killing civilians only "moral disapproval of the international community."
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has said that the appeal to the UN and the International Court of Justice about the gross violations of Tel Aviv as the international law and the sovereignty of the country. Israeli officials have not even condescended to comments as well know - the United Nations of their "closed down" the United States and the international court - the case for long, besides a very unpredictable outcome, since the principle of "Israel is always right" for Western politicians and judges is not only object of worship, but also for a successful career ...
Iranian response
Tehran has long been no illusions about the fact that the notorious "international community" somehow "Siege" Israel, somehow limit the aggressive and insolent behavior of the "hawks" in Tel Aviv. International law in a unipolar world is built on the principle of "one human who has more rights" - or rather, who has the most political-military "stick" and who "cooler" patrons in international organizations. Therefore, the main emphasis in the defense of the sovereignty and national security of Iran is on its own strength, on the development of defense capabilities. Tehran has long mastered the technique of asymmetric responses to military threats to the West. And these techniques in terms of money it cost much cheaper, and the effectiveness has little inferior to the advanced Western technology. US-Israeli doctrine of "swarms of drones" by attacking Iran, has become a serious challenge to the security of the Islamic Republic, and the efforts of scientists, led by the commander of the IRGC aerospace forces Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, and who was tragically killed last year, the Chief of Staff Corps units cybersecurity Mojtaba Ahmadi answer was found.
Anxious for the United States and its allies signals about the success of Iran in high-tech sectors began to arrive a few years ago. In late 2009, a loud resonance acquired history with the discovery of laptops of Iraqi insurgents many hours of video recordings captured with the American drone. In the same year, the European sources said the blinding American spy satellite with a laser beam directed from Iran. In 2010, the American base management drones, which explore in the Middle East, was discovered a keylogger - a virus that intercepts keystrokes. Command of the Air Force, as expected, immediately announced that a computer virus could not hit the flight control system. But it soon became clear that this was an operation unit cybersecurity Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Original result of which was held in 2011 in Tehran exhibition for journalists, at which attendees were shown seven drones the United States and Israel, captured by Iran (three American and four Israeli).
Trying to disavow the obvious success of the Islamic Republic, the Western media and "experts" have launched an entire propaganda campaign that it all - juggling, falsification, drones themselves - made of plywood dummies, and Iran will never be able to master such complex technologies. Point in this discussion has put more than an authority, board chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, who in an interview with CNN expressly acknowledged: "The Iranians are unusually talented in cyber war for some reason that we do not fully understand." As for the downed over Natanz "Hermes 450", already mentioned above, General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC aerospace forces, commenting on the incident, said bluntly: "W e reserve themselves the right to answer any provocations, including armed Palestinians in the occupied Israeli occupation. "Insolent and aggressive policy must meet tough resistance.
*******
Complete disregard for international law, which demonstrates Israel against Iran and other countries, eats only one - the regime of impunity created for Tel Aviv and its international backers powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, Brussels and even Moscow - "The West will cover, and the other is not utter a word. " "Furious Bibi" Netanyahu says that Israel "wants peace and only peace." The problem is that the world is in Israel's understanding implies full and unconditional acceptance of the other Israeli demands. A provocation, espionage and sabotage have long been the only tools of Tel Aviv in order to achieve this goal.
Inglorious end of Israel's "Hermes"
Nikolai Egorov,
Especially for Iran.ru
27 august 2014
Downed on Sunday over the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz Israeli drone - a great example of that, in spite of "peaceful" applications of Western politicians, the Islamic Republic remains a subject of espionage and sabotage operations. At the same time, destroyed the UAV "Hermes" - more than a convincing argument, proving that at least two myths - the Iranian technological backwardness and military-technological superiority of Israel - are invalid.
Air defense forces of the Revolutionary Guards, which is entrusted with the task of protecting strategic sites, in particular those related to nuclear and missile programs of the Islamic Republic, in contrast to the history in 2011 with the American drone, this time did not spend much effort on the "landing" of the Israeli drone. Radar detected the appearance of "Hermes" in the area of Natanz (240 kilometers south of Tehran), target designation given trigger calculation, who worked as "excellent", after covering high-tech product of the Israeli military-industrial complex with the first missiles "ground-to-air" Iranian production.
Informing about the incident, Head of the IRGC Public Relations, Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said that the drone individual blocks were found at the crash site intact, and Iranian specialists are now intensively studying trapped in their disposal of the "stuffing" of the Israeli drone. Downed "Hermes 450", according to the foreign press - multi-purpose reconnaissance UAV developed by the Israeli company Silver Arrow, subsidiary of Elbit Systems. First flew in 1994, the cost of a complex that includes terrestrial systems - about $ 10 million, but the actual UAV costs about $ 2 million.
However, leave the performance characteristics of the art. In the history of the downed drone is a couple of points that are somewhat shifted focus and make a different perspective on the event. Firstly, according to some sources, this drone can carry missiles "air-land" and has already been used by the Israelis to "point" the destruction of the leaders of the Palestinian Hamas and the attacks on military infrastructure of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Second, the remarkable feature of "Hermes" is that it is effective only if the almost complete absence of enemy air defense systems. How to formulate experts "is a complex of a specific region: the use of certain limits, clear sky, no counter."
Political cynicism and "reconnaissance"
No special need to conduct a reconnaissance mission near Natanz was not. This area, where one of the key objects of the Iranian nuclear program, literally "tweaked" by foreign observers and spy satellites. If all the money that the United States, Israel and their allies spent on intelligence operations in the area to invest in improvements, then this, just desert area, it could be equipped with a blooming oasis with fountains and flower beds of roses. On the other hand, Iran's air defense system can not be called weak. Having received no Russian S-300, the Iranians did not hit rock bottom, and have made every effort and money to create a multi-level air defense system relying on their own capabilities. And with this in mind that Israel is well aware, send a "clear-sky drone" in the area where the density of the air defense cover even higher than usual - is, at first glance, sheer stupidity.
Israeli military and intelligence may be largely to blame, blame deservedly so, but the special folly for them not to notice. And so the story of the "Hermes" means one thing - the application of the doctrine on Iranian strategic targets massive strike "swarms of drones," as one of the Israeli military professionals, not only removed the military-political leadership of Israel from the agenda, but also continues to work on specific operations. Including through similar initially doomed to failure UAV flights.
Israeli settlements in the continuation of mining this doctrine built on cynicism and impudence: relations with Tehran and so worse than ever, once the incident here will not change anything, and the necessary information, such as Iran's air defense system, will be able to get. In addition, the international situation is favorable: while the Western media hysteria around the Russian humanitarian convoy to Ukraine, while Western politicians a few minutes before the time when a Russian truck will jump thugs special forces hiding in the double walls of vans, Tel Aviv "scrolled "another provocation. And being in full assurance of impunity, because there some violation of international law, the invasion of the airspace of a sovereign state, when shortly before Israel, in the best tradition of the Nazi Sonderkommando, made a punitive raid into Gaza and got off for killing civilians only "moral disapproval of the international community."
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has said that the appeal to the UN and the International Court of Justice about the gross violations of Tel Aviv as the international law and the sovereignty of the country. Israeli officials have not even condescended to comments as well know - the United Nations of their "closed down" the United States and the international court - the case for long, besides a very unpredictable outcome, since the principle of "Israel is always right" for Western politicians and judges is not only object of worship, but also for a successful career ...
Iranian response
Tehran has long been no illusions about the fact that the notorious "international community" somehow "Siege" Israel, somehow limit the aggressive and insolent behavior of the "hawks" in Tel Aviv. International law in a unipolar world is built on the principle of "one human who has more rights" - or rather, who has the most political-military "stick" and who "cooler" patrons in international organizations. Therefore, the main emphasis in the defense of the sovereignty and national security of Iran is on its own strength, on the development of defense capabilities. Tehran has long mastered the technique of asymmetric responses to military threats to the West. And these techniques in terms of money it cost much cheaper, and the effectiveness has little inferior to the advanced Western technology. US-Israeli doctrine of "swarms of drones" by attacking Iran, has become a serious challenge to the security of the Islamic Republic, and the efforts of scientists, led by the commander of the IRGC aerospace forces Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, and who was tragically killed last year, the Chief of Staff Corps units cybersecurity Mojtaba Ahmadi answer was found.
Anxious for the United States and its allies signals about the success of Iran in high-tech sectors began to arrive a few years ago. In late 2009, a loud resonance acquired history with the discovery of laptops of Iraqi insurgents many hours of video recordings captured with the American drone. In the same year, the European sources said the blinding American spy satellite with a laser beam directed from Iran. In 2010, the American base management drones, which explore in the Middle East, was discovered a keylogger - a virus that intercepts keystrokes. Command of the Air Force, as expected, immediately announced that a computer virus could not hit the flight control system. But it soon became clear that this was an operation unit cybersecurity Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Original result of which was held in 2011 in Tehran exhibition for journalists, at which attendees were shown seven drones the United States and Israel, captured by Iran (three American and four Israeli).
Trying to disavow the obvious success of the Islamic Republic, the Western media and "experts" have launched an entire propaganda campaign that it all - juggling, falsification, drones themselves - made of plywood dummies, and Iran will never be able to master such complex technologies. Point in this discussion has put more than an authority, board chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, who in an interview with CNN expressly acknowledged: "The Iranians are unusually talented in cyber war for some reason that we do not fully understand." As for the downed over Natanz "Hermes 450", already mentioned above, General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC aerospace forces, commenting on the incident, said bluntly: "W e reserve themselves the right to answer any provocations, including armed Palestinians in the occupied Israeli occupation. "Insolent and aggressive policy must meet tough resistance.
*******
Complete disregard for international law, which demonstrates Israel against Iran and other countries, eats only one - the regime of impunity created for Tel Aviv and its international backers powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, Brussels and even Moscow - "The West will cover, and the other is not utter a word. " "Furious Bibi" Netanyahu says that Israel "wants peace and only peace." The problem is that the world is in Israel's understanding implies full and unconditional acceptance of the other Israeli demands. A provocation, espionage and sabotage have long been the only tools of Tel Aviv in order to achieve this goal.
Inglorious end of Israel's "Hermes"
