Ejército de Israel

[Experten]

Según tengo entendido, el proceso de conversión a partir de Merkava´s 2 no era provechoso, construir Merkava´s 4 generaba mas empleos, era un carro mejor y el costo era apenas un poco mayor, además de evitar sacar a tanques de la reserva blindada para convertirlos.

Yo honestamente veo muy bien esta jugada por parte del ministerio de defensa israelí, no solo abre la puerta de par en par a los productos mecanizados israelíes al enorme cliente militar que es EEUU, sino que le permite a Israel adquirir estos sistemas con la ayuda financiera que dan los americanos a Tel Aviv.

¿Será que en un futuro veremos el desarrollo de un tanque conjunto entre los dos aliados? Ojalá...

[Yorktown]

Día del Veterano
Mi hijo se está preparando para entrar al Ejercito Israelí.

http://www.aishlatino.com/b/lcv/106844994.html

[Mauricio]

Día del Veterano
Mi hijo se está preparando para entrar al Ejercito Israelí.

http://www.aishlatino.com/b/lcv/106844994.html

Dios mío... qué cosa más emasculante. Eso si, nadie la va a acusar de no ser una madre judía.

[Caesar]

Israel retrasa hasta principios de 2011 la entrada en funcionamiento de su novísimo sistema de intercepcion Iron Dome:

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5001794

[Yorktown]

Gaza anti-tank missile penetrated IDF tank, Ashkenazi reveals

IDF chief tells Knesset a Kornet missile was fired more than two weeks ago at a tank in Gaza, penetrated its outer shell, but did not explode inside.

By Jonathan Lis

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi revealed Tuesday that an anti-tank missile was fired more than two weeks ago at an Israeli tank in Gaza and penetrated its outer shell.

"On December 6 a Kornet rocket was fired for the first time and hit an IDF tank and penetrated its outer shell," Ashkenazi told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, revealing that the Kornet missile penetrated the tank exterior shell but failed to explode inside it.

"It is a heavy missile and one of the most dangerous in the region, which was also fired toward the IDF during the Lebanon War," Ashkenazi added.

"We hold the Hamas as the party responsible in the Gaza Strip," Ashkenazi said, holding the militant group which took over the coastal enclave in a bloody coup in 2006 as responsible fro firing the anti-tank missile.

Ashkenazi also stressed that Israel's advanced anti-rocket system, the Iron Dome that has been in development and backed by United States funding, was not a "full proof solution" to the anti-tank missile.

Ashkenazi spoke shortly after a Qassam rocket struck the Ashkelon beach, exploding in an open field near a kindergarten and lightly wounded a teenage girl in a nearby building.

Responsibility for Tuesday's rocket attack was claimed by a group calling itself the Army of Islam, which has the same "global jihad" ideology as the Al- Qaida movement. It said it was responding "to the massacres committed by the Zionist enemy."

Some 13 rockets have struck the western Negev over the last two days; none of those caused any casualties. The last injuries sustained from an attack in Israel was two weeks ago, when a man was wounded by a mortar shell that struck the Eshkol Regional Council.

The Israel Air Force carried out a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday in response to the rise in attack.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... s-1.331848

No se sabe que "tank" es, no?

[MaXXX]

No se sabe que "tank" es, no?

La verdad es que si nos guiamos por la noticia no se sabe nada, porque no tiene ni pies ni cabeza. Dice "a Kornet missile was fired more than two weeks ago at a tank in Gaza, penetrated its outer shell, but did not explode inside", y asi no funcionan los proyectiles HEAT. En concreto el Kornet lleva una cabeza en doble o triple tandem, no recuerdo ahora mismo, y no funciona "penetrando el blindaje y explotando dentro" sino explotando fuera del blindaje y un chorro de gases se abre paso a traves, asi que penetra o no penetra, eso de penetrar y no explotar no existe en los proyectiles tipo HEAT.

[Yorktown]

Pues vaya lio no?, pero en realidad esas son declaraciones del comandante en jege de las IDF, y supongo que sabrá lo que dice.

Más cosas.

As tensions on its borders grow, so do rivalries among Israel's defense industries

Behind the scenes of IDF's decision to deploy a Rafael-developed tank along Gaza border, company's rival Israel Military Industries is fighting for survival.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-repor ... s-1.332673

Saludos.

[Mauricio]

Runrunes...

IMI to Merge into Rafael?



Israel’s Globes business daily newspaper reports tonight that the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Defense have agreed on a plan to merge Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. The plan is also endorsed by IMI’s union representatives. A formal announcement is expected by the end of the month.

In the past the ministry of Finance insisted IMI should be privatized, a procedure that was not accepted by the unions nor by the ministry of defense, which supported merging the company with one of the country’s two government owned companies – IAI or Rafael. Merging of IMI with privately held Elbit Systems also encountered opposition on privatization grounds.

Both IAI and Rafael companies expressed interest in acquiring IMI, whose portfolio closely matches both company’s activities. It is anticipated that by merging IMI’s activities within Rafael, IMI could become financially stable.

Based primarily of land systems, IMI’s portfolio includes armored vehicles design, integration, and modernization. In recent years the company was associated with some of the world’s largest main battle tank, artillery and rocket systems modernization programs, in Turkey, several Asian countries, and Eastern-Europe. These areas are synergistic to Rafael’s lines of activities. However, IMI is also producing a range of passive, reactive and active protection systems, countering IEDs, RPGs and anti-tank threats. IMI Wave remote weapon systems line also conflicts with Rafael’s RCWS products.

In the field of countermeasures, both companies have complementary activities, with Rafael developing aerial DIRCM while IMI is leading the field in expendable countermeasures (chaff and flares). In these areas, both companies are fierce competitors, a bitter fight is raging between the two on the development of an active protection system for the Namer. IMI is also a provider of aerial weapons and bunker penetration warheads for Rafael’s Spice precision guided aerial weapons family.

But again, in the associated field of missile and rocket propulsion, both companies have competing operations. IMI is also sole source subcontractor for large solid-fuel propulsion systems, for the Arrow II missile interceptor, as well as other rocket propulsion systems at IAI.

Despite the company’s past difficulties, IMI has an order backlog of over $1.3 billion. IMI is also a major supplier of weapon systems for the IDF land forces, and many foreign armies. IMI has also developed close relations with many foreign military establishments, through the integration of large scale modernization programs, primarily with land systems.

No sería para nada mala idea. Si bien hay redundancias, también hay sinergías importantes. Y es una buena oportunidad de reorganizar IMI, que tiene un largo historial de pésima rentabilidad.

[Mauricio]

De Amos Harel, analista de asuntos militares y de seguridad del diario Haaretz:

Cairo tremors will be felt here

The collapse of the old regime in Cairo, if it takes place, will have a tremendous influence, mostly negative, on Israel's situation.

By Amos Harel

The events of the past few days in Egypt - seemingly the most important development in the region since the Islamic revolution in Iran and the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord in 1979 - represent a nightmare to Israeli intelligence leaders and planners. While many other countries view the possible ouster of a government that denies basic rights to its citizens with satisfaction, the Israeli point of view is completely different.

The collapse of the old regime in Cairo, if it takes place, will have a tremendous influence, mostly negative, on Israel's situation. In the long run, it threatens to endanger peace with Egypt and Jordan, the greatest of Israel's strategic assets after U.S. support. It is likely to bring about changes in the Israel Defense Forces and worsen the Israeli economy.

Israeli intelligence, like most of the West, did not foresee the force of the turnabout (the conclusive epithet "revolution" will have to wait, it seems ).

Like them, the overwhelming majority of media pundits and academic experts were also mistaken. While the intelligence services did depict 2011 as a year of possible regime changes in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, accompanied by unpredictable results, it did not forecast a popular uprising.

Furthermore, the new head of intelligence, Gen. Aviv Kochavi, at his first appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday, told the MKs that "there is no concern at the moment about the stability of the Egyptian government." That same day Egyptians took to the streets.

By the end of the week, the midnight oil was burning at intelligence headquarters. The main questions of the coming days are about what Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the army will decide to do.

Mubarak, who suffers from cancer and whose health has been worsening recently, faces a dilemma reminiscent of the bind Tehran found itself in with the "Green Revolution" of 2009.

However, while the ayatollahs in the end used unrestrained force, the elderly Egyptian president must decide whether he wants his 30-year rule to be remembered for a bloodbath near its end.

Yet yesterday, the number of deaths among demonstrators had climbed above 35.

The army was called out to the streets of large cities yesterday in order to spell the exhausted police force. The soldiers, unlike the police, have no means to disperse demonstrators. If they receive orders to shoot, it will be live fire, and thousands of people will be killed.

Is the army still loyal to the president? Dozens of tanks that streamed into central Cairo bore graffiti that read "Mubarak will fall" - sprayed on by demonstrators.

Israeli suspicions about the functioning of the American administration in the Middle East, which began with U.S. President Barak Obama's speech at a Cairo university 18 months ago, have now turned to astonishment at the stammering coming out of Washington over the last few days.

Here too, the precedent is Iranian. Like Jimmy Carter facing the shah's ouster, Obama hesitates between supporting a loyal but tyrannical ally, and the basic American instinct in favor of a popular struggle for freedom.

And like Carter the Democrat, Obama too favors the second option.

The Israeli suspicion is that under the surface of the Egyptian struggle, which is on the face about economics and democracy, lies an Islamic element. Islamists are not yet pulling strings and making plans, but they will be the first to recover and exploit the confusion to attract followers.

The fall of the Mubarak government, father and son, will have far reaching security consequences for Israel. It will immediately damage Israel's quiet cooperation with the Egyptians on this front and it may lead to a thaw between Egypt and the Hamas government in Gaza.

It could damage the status of the international peacekeeping force in Sinai and lead to a refusal by Egypt to allow movement of Israeli military submarines and ships in the Suez Canal, employed in the last two years as a deterrent against Iran and to combat weapons smuggling from Sudan to Gaza.

In the long run, if a radical government achieves power, rather than a variation of the current one, there is likely to be a real freeze in the already cold peace with Israel.

From the army's point of view, this will require reorganization. It has been more than 20 years since the army has had to prepare to deal with a real threat from Egypt.

Over the last decades, peace with Egypt has enabled a gradual cutback in the deployment of forces, a reduction in the age of those exempt from reserve duty, and a sweeping diversion of resources toward social and economic goals.

The army is trained for clashes with Hezbollah and Hamas, at the most in combination with Syria. No one has seriously planned for a scenario in which Egyptian divisions enter Sinai, for example.

If in the end the Egyptian regime falls, one possibility that seemed incomprehensible just a few days ago, is that the uprising will spread to Jordan and threaten Hashemite rule.

Then Israel's two long, peaceful borders will face an entirely new reality. A new Middle East, but not the one we wished for.

The Palestinians too are likely to reach the conclusion that mass demonstrations, combined with a limited amount of popular violence, will advance their statehood bid without the need for an agreement that would include obligations to Israel.

[Yorktown]

Gantz takes over as IDF chief: I am ready to face the challenges

Gantz promoted to lieutenant general at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem and was officially sworn in as 20th chief of staff in a military ceremony at the Kirya defense compound in Tel Aviv a few hours later.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... s-1.343323

[Yorktown]

Israel and U.S. successfully test anti-missile system

The Arrow anti-missile system, jointly developed by Israel and the U.S., is primarily aimed at defending Israel from threat of Iran missile strike.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.344989

[Maya]

(dar Click en la imagen, y luego a la lupa para ampliar)




Salud.

[Mauricio]

Nota de AW respecto a la prueba del Arrow-2 desde la costa de California el 22-Feb-2011 pasado:

[Maya]

Sabes que me asalta la duda viendo estas imagenes...

¿Como quedara el remolque despues del lanzamiento de los Arrow? Eso debe generar un calor impresionante con solo un cohete, ahora imaginate seis, despegando de ese trailer....

¿En que estado quedara? ¿Aguantara el chasis en acero? ¿Sera deshechable? ¿Se podra volver a utilizar?




Salud.

[El Templario]

Si los datos que aportan en la noticia son ciertos, a los "guerreros de Alá" se les va a poner el asunto muy peliagudo:

http://www.abc.es/20110302/internaciona ... 21542.html