Palestinian Rockets.

 Unguided Projectiles?

Many terrorists grouping world wide have a history in using unguided rockets and mortar tubes in their attacks in the name of liberation?  

Meanwhile many people across the world will have sympathy for the self determination of being occupied by a foreign power Israel, forgetting that some thirty years ago the IRA fired mortars at No:10 downing street for their liberation from protestant imperial occupation?

What are these rockets and where do they come from in the case of the Palestinians, Iran and N-Korea, paid with by European Union medical aid, for the IRA it was home made pipes copied from Libyan supplied armaments.

In other parts of the world, Abu-Sa'if used captured U.S. equipment and so it is the same worldwide, but mainstream armies also use rocket artillery Russia being a world leader in the development of the original Kaytushka in the the BM-series which is still in production, the U.S and NATO were late into rocket artillery, and yet they had some of the first systems?

Ancient China was the first known to use rockets in their warfare and put fear into their enemies, with gunpowder mixtures, but today anything from shrapnel, ball bearings to high explosives can be used and some have either nuclear shell casing or material than can be cause of serious burns and various illnesses, if not also biological viruses? 

Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle

The ARV combined Vehicle?

It is strange how in modern warfare the Main battle tanks are being replaced by a newer battlefield multirole vehicle that combines the armoured car, and armoured personnel carrier with a smaller fire power than the tank and on at least six wheels.

The U.S. LAV and the Swiss MOWAG with the Finnish SISU are the bases of a new range of ARV, they being more an APC with addons?  Experience worldwide has seen the demise of the armoured car and the APC apart from para-military security operations and some UN work.

The ARV will not fully replace the MBT as yet, but robotic and drone vehicles of various types under development and secret trials probably will?

What this new generation of armour provides is the transportation of specialised troops, light artillery and rocket power combined with speed and maneuverability and much computerised and military satellite software for more accurate aiming of moving as well as static targets! 

The Peoples Republic of China, N-Korea and Russia have also developed their own versions along side their traditional fleets and newer versions of their mobile missile sytems?

Off to War Again?

HMS Queen Elizabeth is Preparing?

It looks as if we here in the U.K. are off to was with N-Korea soon, one thought it was going to be Russia? But it looks like we will have to support the U.S. President Trump and His U.S. forces in the far-east?

Britain was involved in the first Korean peninsula war, which brought about N and S-Korea, at the cost of 20% loss of Korean lives! The North-Korean leader is portrayed in the Western media as mad, but the reality is far from that claim!

The British Royal Navy will be putting our new aircraft to the test in the China sea and joining other NATO forces. One hopes that neither China nor Russia get involved in military action, but rather diplomatic roles?

This new carrier will prove itself with the Lockheed Martin F-35 deployment, and its range of BAE Missile systems, because it may get battered from N-Korean defence systems? It is not clear what Britain's role in this war is to be as yet?

The U.S has threatened a Nuclear strike, the first since 1945 in the region! The great dangers, will be if Iran, Pakistan get involved? It is estimated that thirty-one million people will die and a further ten to fifteen million suffer from the radiation fall out?

Missile Testing?

Not illegal under the UN Convention!

Iran, N-Korea and many more are free to test weapons and missile systems within their own ranges under International law, something the Media this year has failed to report? This week for the first time Iran fired its missiles at ISIL/S targets in Syria as a payback for the deadly terrorists attacks last week in Tehran.

N-Korea has fired hundreds of test rockets landing in the Sea of Japan, but well within its sea borders about 170 miles or 250Km from its shore line and well away from Japan? N.A.T.O. and other world power's make tests across the world in many far-flung places from the Marshall islands in the Pacific to the plains of Northern-Canada, Western-Australia, the Kerguelen  archipelago. (A challenge to find where that is on the world map?).

The great fear is the development of a nuclear bomb outside the five main powers? Israeli intelligence believe that there are up to thirty five countries with the capability to develop a low grade warhead and this includes at least twelve International terrorist groups?

Their problem is the unstable equipment and cost, if something where to go wrong? The UN meanwhile has failed with the world media to report the construction and use of smaller short range rockets being used by Terrorist groups in the Middle-East paid for by all the European Aid monies?

Mikoyan-Gurevich. MIG-15. Part-Two.

Extensive Training Aircraft.

Many of the worlds air forces can boast today that it was the Midget (NATO-Codename) that got them where they are. This aircraft saw some twenty years as a front line fighter, before being moved on the roles of counter attack and advanced trainer.

Over eighty-seven countries received the type and it became the basis for Jet aviation production in the Peoples Republic of China, North-Korea, and a few other countries around the globe. The Soviet Union quickly revealed to the west the next generation the MIG-17/19, for a time it was not known if they were the same aircraft?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

N-Korea, Cuba and one or two other countries still may be flying the Midget in both counter attack and advanced training, since there are so many sanctions placed on them?              

Gunboats to Fast Attack. Part-One.

The Smaller Navy?

One would like to think so, because big nations that have access to the seas or large lakes have Frigates, Corvettes and Minesweepers? But this is not so, the development of the Gunboat has matured into the FAC (Fast Attack Craft), these newer vessels are now usually armed with the latest missiles, radar and sonar. 

The orgins of the FAC comes from the Cold War years, when the Soviet navy required their patrol boats to work against mini-subs in shallower waters and also to intercept at speed unidentified targets. The patrol boats of World War II were good up to a point, but they were limited compared to what is available today. Many countries initially received these new FAC Soviet boats, such as Angola, Cambodia, China, Vietnam, North-Korea and Cuba and from their on they made their own adaptions to meet their own requirements.

It was the rich Persian Gulf nations in the middle-east that preferred the FAC ability to change platforms and this opened the door to both the United States and Great Britain, with a few other countries to provide the latest versions.