Vuelven los MiGs iraquíes para detener al ISIS

Irak se apresura a crear un fuerza aérea con aviones de la era soviética

El gobierno iraquí se ha apresurado a comprar aviones que había vendido a Irán con varias décadas de antigüedad, informa el Washington Post.
Son alrededor de 100 los aviones que está 'rescatando'. Entre ellos, aviones de la era soviética o algunos usados en la guerra del golfo de 1991.


Voluntarios del ejército de Iraq

El gobierno iraquí se está apresurando a crear unas fuerzas aéreas nacionales para poder combatir la insurrección en el norte del país. Para ello, está recurriendo a aeronaves que había vendido a Irán y a otros vehículos utilizados por sus pilotos durante la guerra del Golfo de 1991.Según asegura el Washington Post, son cerca de 100 los aviones que está "recuperando" el gobierno iraquí, algunos de los cuales son de construcción soviética, como bombarderos Sukhoi o MiGS, que se añadirían a aviones de 'segunda mano' procedentes de Bielorusia o Rusia. Además, el país ha recomprado de Irán aviones que le había vendido previamente.
Esta decisión del gobierno iraquí llega después de que expresara su frustración ante la lentitud de la ayuda exterior. Pretende utilizar esta nueva flota aérea para combatir a los terroristas de ISIS, que han desencadenado una crisis en el país. Estados Unidos ha anunciado el envío de tropas y drones armados, pero sólo para la protección de su embajada.
La retirada completa de tropas estadounidenses en el país se realizó en diciembre de 2011. Obama se ha resistido hasta el momento a enviar tropas de apoyo para entrar en el conflicto. Por ello, Irak ha tenido que recurrir aviones de hélice fija y helicópteros para lanzar ofensivas aéreas contra los insurgentes.
A pesar de lo limitado de sus recursos, el ejército iraquí ha conseguido ganar terreno a los terroristas, retomando la ciudad de Tikrit y consiguiendo asegurar la carretera entre Baghdad y Samarra.


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India encarga más cañoneros Apache

Army scores major win over IAF, gets Apache gunships
Vishal Thapar  New Delhi
The Sunday Guardian



The government has approved the raising of three squadrons of the iconic American-made Apache attack helicopters for the Indian Army. This marks a big win for the Army in its epic war with the Indian Air Force (IAF) for the control of helicopter gunships.

"The Army will get 39 Apache attack helicopters at an estimated cost of over $2.5 billion after the first tranche of 22 of these gunships, currently being negotiated with the US, is delivered to the IAF," disclosed an exultant officer at Army Headquarters.

All future acquisitions of attack helicopters will thereafter be for the Army, an indication that a reluctant IAF will gradually cede this role of providing close helicopter support for ground troops in combat entirely to the Army, which hopes to start getting its Apaches after 2018.

The new Apache squadrons will be integrated with three existing strike corps of the Army, which are tasked with an offensive cross-border role. "This was a long-standing service requirement for a combined Army team concept," explained the senior officer, arguing that an integrated attack helicopter element will mean better synergy with invading ground forces. Sources indicated that Apache elements will also be provided to the Mountain Strike Corps, which is in the process of being raised.

At the moment, India's Mi-35 and Mi-25 gunships are operated by the IAF under the command of the Army, which is now happier at the prospect of the Army Aviation Corps owning and flying the attack helicopters.

The Army's demand for integral attack helicopters gained currency after the Kargil War of 1999, where it clashed with the IAF in its insistence that helicopter gunships be used against Pakistani fighters entrenched on mountain tops. This even led to a stand-off between the then Chiefs of the Army and the IAF, General V.P. Malik and Air Chief Marshal A.Y. Tipnis.

The IAF's squadrons of heavy and slightly dated Mi-35 Russian-made gunships were not suited for operations at such heights as Kargil's. Under pressure from the Army, the IAF used an Mi-17 transport helicopter as a makeshift gunship against the Pakistanis, who shot it down with a Stinger missile, inflicting both a setback and ignominy on the IAF.

"The Army insisted on the use of attack helicopters. We kept asking them to tell us the task, and leave the choice of assets to be used to us," recalls Air Marshal P.S. Ahluwalia, a former commander-in-chief of the Western Air Command. The IAF believes that the Army does not understand application of air power as well as a specialist Air Force would.

Also, it will take many years for the Army to operate the gunships independently, cautions Air Marshal Ahluwalia. "It'll take some time for Army pilots to be trained in fighter tactics and survivability," he warns, shrugging that the process of training the Army in this role would have to be midwifed by the IAF. The slow-moving, low-flying attack helicopters are vulnerable to surface-to-air and air-to-air missile attacks.

The Army nibbling away at the Air Force turf has soured ties somewhat between the two forces, but observers believe that time is a healer. In the past, the IAF also strongly resisted relinquishing the maritime air role to the Navy, but today, naval aviation has matured into a potent specialist force operating everything from surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft to contemporary multi-role fighters. The Navy's aviation arm has produced three chiefs in the last 25 years.

Having tasked blood with its success in wresting the attack helicopter role, the Army is now eyeing integral fixed-wing aircraft as well. Sensing further turf erosion, the IAF is reminding the Army that in the age of jointmanship and resource crunches, assets and roles must not be duplicated. The last word is yet to be said in the continuing inter-service rivalry.

Unidad QBN del EA en San Nicolás

Nueva unidad del Ejército en San Nicolás
Fuente y foto: Diario El Norte (San Nicolás)

Como parte de una reestructuración y, en consonancia con el impulso a las tareas de apoyo civil, la Compañía de Defensa QBN (Química, Bacteriológica y Nuclear) fue separada del Batallón de Ingenieros 601 y conformará en las instalaciones del Destacamento de Vigilancia de Cuartel San Nicolás una nueva subunidad independiente con funciones ampliadas, llamada Compañía de Ingenieros QBN y Apoyo a las Emergencias 601. Este nuevo componente del Ejército Argentino ya tuvo su debut en funciones prestando apoyo a vecinos inundados en los partidos de San Nicolás y San Pedro, y a la vez, mantiene su presencia relativamente cerca de las centrales nucleares Atucha I y II.

Fuente: ArgenDef

Derriban un Su-24 ucraniano

Las autodefensas aseguran haber derribado un cazabombardero ucraniano Su-24

Actualidad RT



Las autodefensas de la ciudad de Górlovka aseguran haber derribado un avión cazabombardero Su-24 de la Fuerza Aérea de Ucrania.



Según las autodefensas, citadas por Ria Novosti, han conseguido derribar a uno de los dos aviones Su-24 que por la noche atacaron una comisaria en esta ciudad de la región de Donetsk, en el sureste de Ucrania.

Después lograron encontrar el lugar exacto de la caída del avión y tomaron al piloto como prisionero. "El avión fue derribado a las afueras de Kaiutovo, sabemos que en este momento tomaron al piloto como prisionero para ser interrogado por la Policía", dijo un testigo a RT.

Las propias autodefensas explicaron que están tratando al prisionero con dignidad, como se hace siempre en estos casos: "Siempre nos comportamos decentemente hacia los soldados prisioneros. Incluso cuando los propios agresores ucranianos dejaron a su piloto tirado en el campo de batalla, le prestamos atención médica. Vamos a averiguar quién da órdenes criminales a los militares, quién es su jefe. Es necesario documentarlo para el futuro tribunal militar".

Los aviones del Ejército de Ucrania atacaron la comisaria porque allí se ubica la sede de las autodefensas de Górlovka. Según la información preliminar, se registran pérdidas entre milicias y civiles: dos personas murieron y siete resultaron heridas.

Anteriormente las autodefensas del este de Ucrania derribaron un avión de transporte militar ucraniano cerca de la ciudad de Lugansk, causando al menos 49 víctimas mortales. El incidente se produjo durante la madrugada de este sábado cuando el Il-76 de transporte militar estaba realizando una maniobra antes de aterrizar en el aeropuerto de Lugansk.

"Fuego procedente de un sistema antiaéreo y de una ametralladora de gran calibre derribó a un avión Il-76 de las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania, que transportaba a personal, equipos técnicos y alimentos", dijo el ministerio en un comunicado.

Casi si queman vivos en un SSN británico en 2011

The Royal Navy Regrets 
by James Dunnigan



HMS Turbulent

It was recently revealed that Britain almost lost one of its nuclear attack submarines (SSN) in 2011 when the air conditioning system of the HMS Turbulent failed while the boat was surfaced in the Indian Ocean. Temperatures in the sub went as high as 60 degrees (Celsius, 140 degrees Fahrenheit) before the crew found a solution. Nearly 40 percent of the crew were disabled by the heat and some systems were overheating and shutting down or acting erratically. The boat was at sea and it would take hours before any help could arrive. The cause of the problem was unknown and the temperature outside the boat was over 40 degrees (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and rising.

Not willing to risk losing the sub to the heat related problems the captain ordered the boat to submerge, as at a depth of over 100 meters the cold water would cool the boat. That worked, and gave the engineers time to figure out that the problem was a buildup of crustaceans that blocked the water inlet pipe for the air conditioning. Within 24 hours that problem was fixed and the sub was able to continue without further incident.

This episode, however, was yet another serious problem British nuclear subs have been prone to. For example, back in 2007 the SSN HMS Tireless lost two men when a SCOG (Self-Contained Oxygen Generator) exploded during a training exercise. The SCOG apparently had some of its vents clogged or blocked. That's a dangerous situation. A SCOG works by burning (at about 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit) sodium chlorate and iron powder, which releases oxygen. For every pound of material burned, there's enough oxygen produced to keep a man alive for three hours. These cylindrical devices are commonly called "oxygen candles." They are only used in emergencies, or in combat situations where maximum silence is required (to avoid enemy detection.) The normal oxygen producing and distribution system contains machinery that makes some noise. The SCOGs are much quieter. The most recent "oxygen candles" are actually square, but are unwrapped, visually inspected and inserted into the SCOG just like the older cylindrical ones. The SCOG explosion caused no serious damage done to the submarine.

Then, in 2009 the Royal Navy revealed that during the previous 21 years it's nuclear submarine suffered about one fire a month. Moreover, the subs suffered two collisions every three years. None of the fires or collisions caused serious damage. Less than ten percent of the fires required more than the sailors in the vicinity to deal with. Three of the fires occurred while the ships were in port. Most of the fires, and all the collisions, occurred while the subs were underway and submerged. That is when the boats are most vulnerable to something going wrong as that is when the most equipment is in use and often under stress. Subs are built to deal with these equipment failures, and in the case of the Royal Navy boats, that worked. The 237 fires and 14 collisions took place on 21 subs (13 SSNs and 8 SSBN) in service during that period.

Then in 2012 one of Britains four SSBNs (ballistic missile submarines) suffered a rudder failure after test firing a SLBM (sea launched ballistic missile) off Florida (North America). The sub (the HMS Vanguard) has just undergone a midlife refurbishment that cost over half a billion dollars. After the rudder problem was discovered, the Vanguard entered an American shipyard in nearby Georgia for repairs. The Royal Navy was embarrassed that a sub fresh out of a three year refurbishment could suffer a rudder failure four months later. This was not the first such embarrassment for the Vanguard. The rudder problem three years after the sub collided with a French SSBN while submerged in the mid-Atlantic. The damage to both boats was superficial but it was embarrassing how two SSBNs could have bumped into each other in the middle of an ocean.

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Cae un M2000D francés en Níger

Mirage de las fuerzas francesas se estrella en Níger
París, 10 jun (PL) Un avión de combate Mirage 2000D de las fuerzas francesas se estrelló en Níger, cuando regresaba de una operación militar en Mali, informó hoy aquí el estado mayor del ejército.



Según la fuente, el incidente se produjo por un problema técnico y tanto el piloto como el navegante lograron eyectarse y se encuentran sanos y salvos.

El aparato era uno de los seis Mirage 2000 y Rafale que Francia desplegó en la región del Sahel tras la intervención en Mali en enero del pasado año.

Con este nuevo caso suman dos los aparatos franceses de su tipo accidentados en menos de un mes, después de que a mediados de mayo otra nave se estrellara en el departamento galo de Meurthe-et-Moselle debido también a un problema técnico.

El Mirage 2000D es un caza de reacción de cuarta generación, polivalente y monomotor fabricado por la compañía francesa Dassault Aviation y diseñado para ataques convencionales.

¿El juez que juzgó a Saddam asesinado por el ISIS?

Judge Rauf Rashid, the man who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, has reportedly been captured and killed by ISIS terrorists.


Judge Rauf Rashid and Saddam Hussein

Several Arab News websites are reporting the news.
Al-Mesyroon reported (translated)

There were reports of the execution of Iraqi judge, Raouf Abdel-Rahman, who sentenced Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to death, according to confirmed the pages on the social networking site, without official confirmation from the Iraqi government.
The pages on social networking sites, including Page MP Jordanian Khalil Attieh on the site “Facebook” to “revolutionaries Iraqis arrested him and sentenced him to death in retaliation for the death of the martyr Saddam Hussein,” he said, adding that Rauf tried to escape from Baghdad after wearing uniforms dancers. She page Izzat al-Douri, vice-president Saddam Hussein, the “Facebook” to the rebels Iraqis were able to arrest the Kurdish judge Rauf Rashid, who issued a death sentence against the former Iraqi leader, which is currently in the “grip of the soldiers of the Islamic State and the men of the Baath Party.”

Wikipedia says he is dead: “On 16 June 2014, Abd al-Rahman was arrested by ISIS rebels during 2014 Northern Iraq offensive. Two days later, it was reported that ISIS captured and executed him.”

Iraqi officials have not denied the news.

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ISIS o ISIL... como se hacen llamar estos asesinos?

ISIL or ISIS? Why the world can’t decide
By Gideon Lichfield - Quartz



Fighters of ISIL... or ISIS... or whatever... stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul. Reuters

When a bunch of extremists seem about to take control of one of the Middle East’s largest countries, you’d think we’d have better things to do then argue about what they’re called. But the world’s media seem stubbornly divided about what name to give the jihadist movement currently overwhelming Iraq.
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To some news outlets—including the big news agencies Reuters, the Associated Press, and Agence France-Presse, as well as al-Jazeera—it’s the “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant,” or ISIL. To others—among them the New York Times—it’s the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (or in some cases “Greater Syria”), or ISIS. Quite a few places write “…the Levant,” but then bizarrely abbreviate it to ISIS (we’re looking at you, Financial Times and Guardian).
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Nor is the confusion restricted to English-language media. In French the reigning phrase appears to be l’Etat Islamique en Irak et au Levant (EIIL). But in Spain, El Pais has chosen El Estado Islámico en Irak y el Levante (EIIL), while its rival newspaper El Mundo has gone with Estado Islámico de Irak y Siria, and uses the English acronym ISIS. In Germany, Deutsche Welle uses ISIS in both its English and German versions, but writes out “…the Levant” on its English site and “…und Syrien” on its German one; meanwhile, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Allgemeine have gone with ISIS while Die Welt plumps for ISIL. The BBC Russian service, like much of the Russian media, uses the Russian equivalent of ISIL—whereas the BBC in English spells out “Levant” but then uses ISIS.
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It’s all a sham

The group’s name in Arabic is al dawla al islamiyye f’il iraq w’al sham. The last word, sham, is the problematic one. It is used, in the phrase bilad al sham, to refer variously to: the contemporary Levant, a somewhat amorphous region sometimes understood to include Iraq, and sometimes not; to the historical region called al sham in classical Arabic but known to the ancient Greeks and other civilizations as “Syria” or a variant thereof, which is roughly contiguous with the Levant; and to a Syrian nationalist dream of a “Greater Syria,” a region of similar extent that includes Iraq. Sham is also a contemporary nickname for Damascus, the Syrian capital; but modern-day Syria is called suriya.
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No wonder people are confused. So how to resolve the issue?
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Some outlets (the New Yorker among them) have skirted it by calling the group the “Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham,” which conveniently abbreviates to ISIS. That might be the most honest approach. But it’s also the least informative. DAIISH (or DIISH or DAISH), an acronym of the Arabic name, might be better (media do sometimes use foreign-language acronyms like KGB), but it seems unlikely to become popular.
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At Quartz we’ve chosen to render sham as “Levant” over “Syria,” on the grounds that while scholars of Middle Eastern history might recognize “Syria” to have a broader meaning, most of our readers will take it to mean modern-day Syria, i.e., suriya, not sham. And then, if you’re using “Levant,” you might as well as abbreviate it logically—so, ISIL.
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There’s another, more practical reason. If you search Google for ISIS, you’ll also find a mobile-payments system; a pharmaceutical company; a zoological database used for species conservation; a respected history-of-science journal;  a couple of university student information systems; a nuclear non-proliferation think-tank; the shadowy spy agency in a bawdy animated comedy series; and, needless to say, the Egyptian goddess of nature and magic. And that’s just on the first page of results. But there is only one ISIL.

Rusia pone en servicio un submarino invisible

Rusia botara el submarino Rostov del Don, un verdadero 'agujero negro' para los radares



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El submarino diésel-eléctrico Rostov del Don, uno de los seis submarinos del proyecto para la Flota del Mar Negro, será botado este 26 de junio, según ha declarado este sábado el сomandante de la Fuerza Naval de Rusia, el almirante Víctor Chirkov.

"La próxima semana, el 26 de junio, botaremos un nuevo submarino para la Flota del Mar Negro, el Rostov del Don, que será el segundo submarino de la serie. El 27 de junio botaremos un nuevo dragaminas moderno queno tiene análogo", dijo Chirkov.

El submarino Rostov del Don es uno de los seis submarinos de tercera generación que forman parte del proyecto submarino 'Varshavyanka', que en Occidente ya ha recibido el apodo de "agujero negro", debido a que resultan casi invisibles para los radares más sensibles de la OTAN.

Los submarinos tienen un desplazamiento en inmersión total de 3,1 millones de toneladas, alcanzan una velocidad es de 20 nudos, su profundidad de inmersión es de 300 metros y pueden dar cabida a una tripulación de 52 personas. Están armados con torpedos de calibre 533 milímetros, minas, y misiles 'Calibre'. Los submarinos de esta serie pueden detectar un blanco a una distancia tres a cuatro veces mayor que la que requiere el enemigo para detectarlo a él.

El Novorossiysk, buque insignia del proyecto, fue botado en noviembre de 2013 en San Petersburgo y está previsto que se dirija a su base en la ciudad homónima, en el Mar Negro, en 2015. Los seis submarinos de la serie debe estar construidos para 2016, momento en que pasarán a formar parte de las fuerzas submarinas de la flota del Mar Negro.

Este sábado Chirkov también declaró que hasta el 2020 la Marina rusa tiene previsto adquirir 30 buques de diferentes clases y que hasta finales de este año la Marina obtendrá 50 buques de abastecimiento

Reproducido por El Snorkel