July 30, 2011

Beware of photoshopped photos on the web especially the Chinese fakes

Here is what really happened to a SU 27 air craft of the Russian air force

This was photo-shopped to something below and a story was weaved out of the below pics

Here is what really happened

The ejection stills are a fake. The Flanker took off without a canopy and with its rear seat removed, but nobody ever ejected from that aircraft. The pictures showing the ejection are obviously photo shopped, they are of a different Flanker which is sitting on the ground.

Many Chinese bloggers are known to do this.

July 17, 2011

Pak Army - Pakistan Army Operation Koh-e-Sufaid - July 2011

Pak Army firing rounds in the air in their war "bad"Taliban terrorists

Sri Lanka Air Force's MI - 24 Helicopter - No. 7 Squadron SLAF

Hingurakgoda Air Base (Polonnaruwa)

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July 12, 2011

Bribe Pakistan ("Pak=Pure") Army General and get nuclear weapons

Pakistan Army rogue Generals can take diamonds and rubies also as bribes

No matter how hard they try, successive governments are unable to keep disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan quiet. In an interview he gave to German publication Der Spiegel last week, Khan claimed that he was made a scapegoat by Musharraf and the army. Soon after, a letter, obviously leaked by Khan himself, was published by The Washington Post which was purportedly from a North Korean scientist saying that former army chief Jehangir Karamat had been paid $3 million and another general, Zulfiqar Khan, would soon be paid in diamonds and rubies. Both the now-retired officers have vehemently denied that they received anything or were even involved. In the past, questions had been raised of how Dr Khan could be involved in the sale of nuclear material to other countries without some involvement/consent by the military establishment.

Musharraf may have dismissed Dr Khan’s clandestine network as a ‘one-man show’ but it would be unlikely for one individual to be so well-connected and independent to have been doing this on his own, especially given that the organisation he used to head is a part of the ministry of defence and the military has close control of the nuclear weapons programme. This may perhaps explain why, when the issue boiled over during General Musharraf’s rule, Dr Khan was practically forced to appear on television to confess, then pardoned the very next day, and then kept under wraps for the next few years.

WASHINGTON: In response to charges by Pakistan’s nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan that North Korea bribed senior Pakistani military officials for nuclear secrets in the 1990s, the now-retired military men have rubbished the report, saying the report is “totally false.”

According to the Washington Post, the nuclear scientist released a copy of a letter from a North Korean official, dated 1998, which gives details of the transfer of $3 million to former army chief Jehangir Karamat, and $500,000 and some jewelry to another military official, Lt-Gen Zulfiqar Khan.

“I was not in the loop for any kind of influence and I would have to be mad to sanction transfer of technology and for Dr Khan to listen to me,” Karamat told Reuters in an email. Zulfiqar Khan also denied the accusation.

(This video shows Khalid Khwaja - the ISI spy killed by the Taliban Frankenstein he create)

“I have not read the story,” Khan told Reuters, “but of course it is wrong.”

Post reported that the officials in turn approved the transfer of information to Pyongyang. The letter appears to be signed by North Korean Workers Party Secretary Jon Byong, the newspaper said. While western intelligence officials say the letter is authentic.

Khan: Pakistan sold nuclear weapons technology to North Korea

The creator of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program has handed over documents that he says show senior military officials were paid millions to give nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, putting further strain on a tense US-Pakistan relationship.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, an American-trained scientist and head of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program for over 20 years, says that two senior Pakistani military officials kickbacks from North Korea in exchange for the technology. Khan gave documents to Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who is seen as an expert on Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.

“He gave me this several years ago, and though he didn’t explain his motivation, I suspect he saw it as an insurance policy,” said Henderson to the New York Times. “He saw it as a crucial document that could completely reverse the accepted narrative that he was a rogue agent.”

General Jehangir Karamat asking for money, rubies,diamonds and villas in Dubai in return of nuclear bombs

Included in the documents is a letter purportedly written, in English, by a North Korean official to Khan from 1998. The letter describes the deal in question, noting that General Jehangir Karamat, then the head of the Pakistani military, had received a payment of $3 million, and a second general receiving "half a million dollars and 3 diamond and ruby sets." The letter also requested that “the agreed documents, components, etc.” be placed on a Pyongyang-bound plane, which would be used to deliver missile parts to Pakistan. The letter also refers to a Mr. Yon, who had "served in Iran, Egypt, Syria, and Libya." Aside from Egypt, the remaining countries are known to have purchased designs and equipment to develop nuclear technology from North Korea. The author of the letter, Jon Byong Ho, has been named by American intelligence as the man in charge of the country's missile and technology trade. The letter was passed on by Henderson to the Washington Post "some time ago", and was published on Thursday. Khan was placed under house arrest in 2003 for selling nuclear technology outside of the country, including North Korea. Siegfried S. Hecker, a nuclear expert from Stanford University, noted that the nuclear centrifuge facility he saw on his 2010 trip to North Korea was very similar to the Pakistani design. The revealing of this letter will likely cause further instability in the tense relationship between Pakistan and the US, which has been on shaky ground since the discovery of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the country earlier this year. CIA director Leon Panetta, in reference to the country's role in protecting bin Laden, "was either involved or incompetent." Pakistan currently receives $1.3 billion per year in aide from the US, although Congress is considering lowering that amount if it turns out the Pakistani government knew where the former head of al Qaeda was hiding.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/308876#ixzz1RfiR9Pys

We Pakistanis will eat grass but still build a bomb

July 8, 2011

All about Pakistani submarines

The Agosta 90B, also known as the Khalid-class, is a modernised design built for the Pakistan Navy. Various modifications give lower acoustic signature, lower diving depth, improved battery range and performance. Greater automation also allows the crew to be reduced from 54 to 36. The submarine can be armed with up to 16 torpedoes and SM39 Exocet anti-ship missiles.The SM39 was test-fired from a Khalid-class submarine in 2001.

PNS/M Khalid (S137) - built in France by DCN Cherbourg, completed in 1999
PNS/M Saad (S138) - built in Pakistan with French assistance, completed in 2002
PNS/M Hamza (S139) - built in Pakistan, commissioned 14 August 2006

Pakistani Submarine Naval Docks

Above pns-hamza---- and pns saad, pns khalid in background

pns-Khalid above S137

pns-hamza S139

Pakistani Hamza - Agosta 90 B submarine

All Pics of Agosta-90B Hamza S139 above

PNS Saad S138 above

S138 above

PNS Hashmat Agosta 70 - S135 Above

PNS Hasmat Agosta 70 - S135 Above

PNS Hurmat S136 - Agosta 70

Interiors of Agosta 90

Interior of a french Agosta similar to that of Pakistan

July 7, 2011

J-10 Fighters deployed in Air Base Near Sino-India-Nepal Border at Shigatze Air Base

Besides of the J-11 fighter fleets, Chinese Air Force has begun to deploy its home-made J-10 fighters on the air bases, which locate on the high-land area. These images of J-10 fighters and Z-8 helicopter are perhaps pictured near an air field on Tibet plateau.

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And the Z-8 in the photo is probably the AC313, China's first independently developed civilian medium-lift helicopter. AC313 is a 13.8t helicopter with a carrying capacity of 27 passengers or 15 wounded with stretchers. The maximum range is 900km (ca. 559 miles). China once announced that AC-313 is the first indigenous copter to fly on high-altitude area excpet U.S. Black-Hawk.

Source:
http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/j-10-fighters-deployed-in-air-base-near-sino-india-border.html

July 4, 2011

China's so called peaceful rise :).....China intends to use its military might far beyond its borders

The Ikea superstore in the port city of Dalian, China, is a blue-and-yellow monument to the global reach of Western commerce, but any shopper stumbling out through the back door would be confronted by a jaw-dropping symbol of rapidly changing times. In the docks behind the store sits a 60,000-ton aircraft carrier.

This huge ship – nearly three times the size of Britain's sole remaining carrier, HMS Illustrious – was originally built in the Soviet Union.

Still under construction when communism collapsed, it was bought by a Hong Kong company, which claimed it was going to tow the ship to Macau and turn it into a floating hotel and casino.

China had already converted two former Soviet aircraft carriers into gambling dens, so this was not as far-fetched as it sounded, but the third ship never reached Macau. It was taken to Dalian, painted in the colours of the People's Liberation Army Navy and fitted with a flight deck and new guns and missiles.

For years, China's spokesmen kept insisting that the ship was still going to be a casino, but last Wednesday the Chief of the General Staff came clean on the world's worst-kept military secret.

In plain view, behind Ikea, is the first unambiguous sign that China intends to project its military power far beyond its own shores.

Senior officers in Beijing insist that they would never use the aircraft carrier for such a task, even though that is the only thing aircraft carriers are good for.

It is true that we will not wake up tomorrow to see Chinese jets streaking overhead. American military power still dwarfs China's. The USA has 11 carrier groups, while China is still building its first; and, by China's own admission, American technology is 20 years ahead.

Even so, since the Nineties, China has been rolling back America's reach in the western Pacific. When historians a century from now look back on China's rise to global power, the carrier behind the Ikea store may stand out as the turning point.

Five years ago, I started writing my book Why The West Rules – For Now. In it I argued that geography has been the ultimate force behind Western success, but I calculated that if levels of development increase across the 21st Century at the same pace as they did in the 20th, East Asian wealth and power will catch up with the West's around the year 2100.

It is only seven months since my book came out, but last week's events suggest strongly that the East is, in fact, gaining ground even faster than I predicted. The next few years may be the most important since the end of the Cold War.

For 300 years, the West has enjoyed an enormous military lead over the rest, but this is now being eroded – because the West is going broke.