Iran gets missiles of Russian S-300 system, will be on combat alert till March 2017.

Iran gets missiles of Russian S-300 system, will be on combat alert till March 2017. (Tass).

 Iran has received the first batch of missiles of Russia’s S-300 air defense system, the Iranian news agency Tasnim reported on Monday.

"The first batch of missiles of the S-300PMU2 has arrived in Iran. These systems will reinforce the air defense of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the news agency said in a statement.

Iran plans to place the air defense systems it has received from Russia on combat alert until the end of the current Iranian year ending on March 20, 2017, the news agency said. Read the full story here.

Video - Russian Senator Olga Kovitidi: Nobody Will Be Able to Beat Us When It Comes to a Ground Offensive.

Video - Saudi Political Analyst Dahham Al-‘Anzi: 'Saudi Arabia Has Obtained Nuclear Bomb. Test May Be Held Soon'.

Saudi political analyst Dahham Al-‘Anzi spoke on Russia Today Arabic TV channel on February 15 and claimed that Saudi Arabia has obtained a nuclear bomb. Al-‘Anzi said that the Saudis have acquired the bomb two years ago and that a nuclear test is expected soon. “The superpowers know about this,” he added.

U.S. Spent Almost $ 100 Billion On 'friends' To Fight Terrorists.

U.S. Spent Nearly $100B On 'Foreigners' To Fight Terrorists. HT: Vocativ.

Despite the enormous tab, ISIS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still running amok in the Middle East and Africa.

To combat Islamic militants the White House says threaten national interests, the U.S. has spent nearly $100 billion to arm and train foreign militaries across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, an analysis by Vocativ shows.

And nearly all of them are reeling from setbacks that threaten to undermine what’s become a core component of American foreign policy in these regions.

U.S. programs funding foreign fighters began flourishing in the years after 9/11 and were later bolstered by President Obama, who prefers doing this instead of deploying American troops into troubled areas.

Persian Gulf leaders no longer trust 'Gentlemen's agreement' want Obama to put it in writing

Persian Gulf leaders no longer trust 'Gentlemen's agreement' want Obama to put it in writing. (Wapo).

Persian Gulf leaders, set to convene at a Camp David summit this week, are pressing President Obama to strengthen the U.S. security relationship with the region and expand military assurances to address their growing concerns about Iran, U.S. and regional officials said.

Senior officials from several gulf nations said they understand that a mutual defense alliance, similar to NATO, is not possible. At the very least, however, they want a firmer and more specific U.S. promise to protect them from external threats.

“In the past we have survived with a gentlemen’s agreement with the United States about security,” said Yousef al-Otaiba, ambassador to Washington for the United Arab Emirates, one of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries participating in the summit. “Today, we need something in writing. We need something institutionalized.”

Other officials were less specific. “I don’t have a problem with written or non-written,” Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said Monday. “Our faith in America’s word is total.” Hmmmm.........Trusting Hussein Obama?......Not too much. Read the full story here.

"CHANGE" - Egyptian Navy plans to buy Russian "Govind" class corvettes worth up to 1 billion euros.

"CHANGE" - Egyptian Navy plans to buy Russian "Govind" class corvettes worth up to 1 billion euros.(Flot).[Google Translate].

Egypty Navy Command  plans to sign a contract with the company DCNS to supply four class corvettes "Govind" reported the French newspaper "La Tribune". Information resource Navyrecognition.com, the agreement will provide for an option to build two more ships of this class.

Corvettes for Egyptian Navy will be performed in a combat version of "Govind Kombat" and get the ship's anti-aircraft missile system VL MICA and anti-ship missiles MM-40 "Exocet". 

Cost of the program is estimated at 1 billion euros. Earlier Corvettes "Govind" this modification were selected for the Navy of Malaysia, who will receive the first of six ships ordered in 2020. According to the French newspaper, the company DCNS modified project "Govind" competed in Egypt with the German company "ThyssenKrupp Marin Systems" (TKMS), suggested "Meco" A-200, and the Dutch "Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding" (DSNS) with the corvette "Sigma." Version "Govind Kombat", designed for the Navy Malaysia in displacement is close to the frigate . Corvette length is about 111 m, displacement - 3000 tons Corvette "Govind Kombat", equipped with a system of command and control SETIS, combat capabilities comparable to a light frigate, and can lead the fight against air, surface and underwater targets. High efficiency of hostilities is also provided due to low ESR and low acoustic signature.

"RESET" - 'Nuclear train' returns: Russia to deploy rail-based missiles to counter US 'Prompt Global Strike'

"RESET" - 'Nuclear train' returns: Russia to deploy rail-based missiles to counter US 'Prompt Global Strike'.(RT).

“A Defense Ministry report has been submitted to the president and the order has been given to develop a preliminary design of a rail-mounted missile system,” the commander of the Strategic Missile Force, Lt. Gen. Sergey Karakayev, said Wednesday, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

General Karakayev compared a potential power of a “nuclear train” with several missiles to a division of stationery silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.
“Our missile officers are frustrated that we don’t possess such a system today,” Karakayev said Wednesday. “When the Supreme Commander-in-Chief [President Vladimir Putin] asked me about it, I expressed full support in the railroad-based missile systems.”

Russia used to possess the intercontinental ballistic missile system RT-24 Yars (NATO designation: SS-24 Scalpel) disguised as an ordinary freight train, inherited from the Soviet Union. With Russia’s extremely vast railroad system, detection and preemptive destruction of that system was extremely difficult.

“We see the future missile as solid-fueled, with multiple warheads – with RT-24 Yars as a prototype. We are talking of modifying missiles that are to weigh 47 tons. To compare, a missile in the old nuclear train weighed 110 tons,” Karakayev said.

Within the framework of the START-II nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US, signed by President Boris Yeltsin and his US counterpart, George H. W. Bush in 1993, the SS-24 Scalpel system was decommissioned and all launching platforms were destroyed by 2007.

The ‘New START’ treaty signed by presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama in 2011 does not limit the use of railway-based systems, so in 2012 Russia reconsidered development of a new version of a railway-based strategic missile system.

One year later, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced the new railroad missile system would be developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology – the same institute that developed the sea-based Bulava nuclear missile for the latest generation of Borey-class submarine strategic nuclear missile carriers.

The Institute is expected to present a blueprint of the system within the next six months.

The project is aimed at countering the threat posed by the US Conventional Prompt Global Strike concept. This concept implies destroying stationary targets with hypersonic missiles armed with conventional warheads in any part of the planet within an hour of receiving an order.

A constantly moving “nuclear train” is viewed as a hard target for that still-being-developed system.

Last week, Russia’s Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the Russian military and defense industry, called America’s Conventional Prompt Global Strike concept “the most important new strategy being developed by the United States today.” Rogozin warned that in case Russia becomes a target of such a strike, “in certain circumstances we will of course respond with nuclear weapons.”

Recently, Rogozin also announced that Russia was developing strike hypersonic missiles itself.Hmmmm.....Welcome to the "Changed Obama World"...... the Obama legacy to your children and grandchildren.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin: ’Russia Will Surely Use Nuclear Weapons If US Strikes’

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin: ’Russia Will Surely Use Nuclear Weapons If US Strikes’(Fars).

Russian Deputy Prime Minister stressed that Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if it is attacked by the United States.

Russia was "preparing a response" to plans by the United States to develop a new fast-strike weapons platform capable of striking targets anywhere in the world in as little as an hour, Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted Dmitry Rogozin as saying on Wednesday.

"They may experiment with conventional weapons on strategic delivery platforms, but they must bear in mind, that if we are attacked, in certain circumstances we will of course respond with nuclear weapons," Rogozin told Russia's State Duma, the lower house, without naming the US.

The official noted that the so-called Prompt Global Strike program was "the most important new strategy being developed by the United States today".

Russia amended its military doctrine years ago to allow for the possibility of using nuclear weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear attack.

Rogozin said the principle is enshrined in Russia’s military doctrine and any aggressor or group of aggressors should be aware of that.

Rogozin’s comment came a day after President Vladimir Putin said that 40 new Yars (SS-29) Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) would be added to Russia’s nuclear arsenal in 2014.Hmmm.....Flexible...Reset