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Meanwhile… The US is about to elect a president who wants to cut defense spending, missile development, missile defense, etc etc ect.
God help us.
Barney Frank announced today that once Dear Leader is coronated that they government will cut defense spending by 25%.
Maybe they will use the funds to send out more welfare checks, ooops, I mean tax credits for people that don’t pay taxes.
What people will do for the almighty (insert money here) Is India becoming a rogue state like Russia?
LMOA!
That Ayers post must have got yanked by Breitbart?
Got too hot to handle, no doubt.
If Obama cuts defense spending by 25%, we might end up buying these from India to save money.
How will the Indians pay for the weapons? Slurpee machines? Rupees? Anvils?
Without doubt, the contract won’t be completed until a red dot is placed at the top of the nose cone!
Anyone who would sell a weapon to India or Pakistan is just asking for trouble. It’s far better off to send them water pistols or itching power to drop into their turbans. Much safer and more entertaining too!
Israel and India-
India and Israel have increased cooperation in military and intelligence ventures since the establishment of diplomatic relations. While India and Israel were officially “rivals” during the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Islamic terrorism in both countries have generated a solid strategic alliance. India recently launched a military satellite for Israel.
During the Kargil War, Israel provided military hardware, including laser guided bombs and unmanned aerial vehicles to help it to flush out the Pakistani infiltrators in Kargil. This relationship soon developed into a major defense partnership between India and Israel.
In 1997 Israel’s President Ezer Weizman became the first head of the Jewish state to visit India. He met with Indian President Shankar Dayal Sharma, Vice President K.R. Narayanan and Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda. Weizman negotiated the first weapons deal between the two nations, involving the purchase of Barak-1 vertically-launched surface-to-air (SAM) missiles from Israel. The Barak-1 has the ability to intercept anti-ship cruise missiles such as the Harpoon. The purchase of the Barak-1 missiles from Israel by India was a tactical necessity since Pakistan had purchased P3-C II Orion maritime strike aircraft and 27 Harpoon sea-skimming anti-ship missiles from the United States.
Strategic naval cooperation
In naval terms Israel sees great strategic value in an alliance with the Indian Navy, given India’s dominance of South Asian waters. It would be advantageous to the Israeli Navy to establish a logistical infrastructure in the Indian Ocean with the cooperation of the Indian Navy, since the Mediterranean has a dominant Arab and European presence that is hostile to the Israeli navy in varying degrees. In 2000, Israeli submarines reportedly conducted test launches of cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in the waters of the Indian Ocean, off the Sri Lanka coast.
Air Force contracts
In 1996 India purchased 32 Searcher” Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Electronic Support Measure sensors and an Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation simulator system from Israel. Since then Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has serviced several large contracts with the Indian Air Force including the upgrading of the IAF’s Russian-made MiG-21 ground attack aircraft and there have been further sales of unmanned aerial vehicles as well as laser-guided bombs.
Intelligence
A Rediff story in 2003 revealed that the Indian intelligence agency RAW had clandestine links with the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. When RAW was founded in 1968 by Rameshwar Kao, he was advised by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to cultivate links with Mossad. This was suggested as a countermeasure to military links between Pakistan, a nation hostile to India, and North Korea. Also, Israel was concerned that Pakistani army officers were training Libyans and Iranians to handle Chinese and North Korean military equipment. This link enabled India to get wind of Pakistan’s plans to build a nuclear reactor at Kahuta. Though India planned to bomb Kahuta, in Operation Opera, where Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, the plan was later dropped.
The Pakistanis eventually started to suspect intelligence relations between India and Israel resulting in a threat to Pakistani security. When young Israeli tourists began visiting the Kashmir valley in the early nineties, Pakistan suspected they were disguised Israeli army officers there to help Indian security forces with counter-terrorism operations. Pakistani intelligence inspired a series of terrorist attacks on the unsuspecting Israeli tourists with one slain and another kidnapped. Intense pressure from the Kashmiri Muslim diaspora in the United States led to their release.
2007 IAI deal
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd has signed a $2.5 billion deal with India to develop an anti-aircraft system and missiles for the country, in the biggest defense contract in the history of Israel at the time. IAI CEO Yitzhak Nissan recently visited India to finalize the agreement with heads of the defense establishment and the country’s president. The Indian government has already approved the project, in the framework of which the IAI will develop for the Indian Navy and Air Force the Barak-8 missile that is capable of protecting sea vessels and ground facilities from aircraft and cruise missiles. The missile has a range of over 70 kilometers. The missile will replace the current obsolete Russian system used by India.
Satellite Launching
Israel’s Minister for Science and Technology has expressed interest in collaborating with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) towards utilizing satellites for better management of land and other resources. Israel has also expressed interest in participating in ISRO’s Chandrayaan mission of sending an unmanned craft to the moon. A Memorandum of Understanding, signed by ISRO and Israel’s space agency, provides for cooperation in multiple areas of space science and technology.
In a significant move, Israel chose India to launch its satellites, instead of using its own home grown Shavit rocket. This is due to the cost of the PSLV being no more than $15 million, while that of Shavit is close to $20 million. The latest Israeli Radar Satellite, Tecsar, was launched by India on 22 January, 2008.
You wanted to complain about the Russians?
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