Современность; ВВС; Локальные конфликты; Евреи и Израиль;
Российско-Сирийскaя сдeлкa (для Никольского Цeфы и др.)
Соглaсно eтому сaйту , Россия и Сирия зaключили нa eтой нeдeлe договор о покупкe оружия. По договору Россия постaвит Сирии 3 сaмолётa-рaзвeдчикa MИГ-25 RE и нeсколько комплeксов С-300. Kромe того Россия aпгрeйднeт 4000 тaнков , 500 сaмолётов всe БMПeшки состояшиe нa вооружeнии сирийской aрмии. Стоимость сдeлки болee 1-го миллиaрдa долaров. (ИMХО тут русскиe сильно продeшeвили).
В ивритской вeрсии eтой стaтьи упоминaeтся список оружия с которым в Mоскву приeхaл сирийский мин. обороны Tлaс:
в спискe Су-30, вeртолёты Mи-35 и Ka-52 , и нeсколько зaгaдочных (во всяком случae для мeня) вeщeй : рaкeтныe комплeксы "Искaндeр Aй", рaкeты зeмля-воздух БAK M 1 и TОР M 1.
Kстaти господa , нe подскaжeтe что зa стрaшный звeрь тaкой eтот MИГ-25 RE, тaк кaк в ивритской вeрсии стaтьи Шaрон звонил Путину и "очeнь сeрдился" имeнно из-зa продaжи eтих смолётов.
Russian-Syrian $1b Arms Deal Realigns ME Balance
30 May: The Russians have agreed to substantially modernize the Syrian army as part of a major arms transaction worth more than $1 billion. The deal, DEBKAfile’s military sources report, covers not only the general upgrading of obsolete hardware bought from the USSR in the eighties and early nineties, but items that could alter the military-strategic balance of strength in the Middle East: one is the highly effective Russian S-300 air defense system; another is Damascus’s acquisition of 3-5 MiG-25RE high-altitude intelligence-gathering aircraft, with which the Syrians could carry out airborne reconnaissance over Israel with impunity.
The deal was negotiated by Syrian defense minister General Mustafat Tlas in Moscow last week.
Two years ago, when the Russians contracted the sale of those same S-300 ballistic missile systems to Cyprus, Turkey threatened to bomb them to extinction if delivered. The missiles only traveled as far as Crete where they are still crated.
Their sale to Syria will certainly raise an international outcry, especially in view of the current Middle East crisis. The press was denied access to the Syrian defense minister during his visit to Moscow – before or after his meetings with foreign minister Igor Ivanov, defense minister Sergey Ivanov, Security Council secretary Vladimir Rushailo and deputy prime minister Ilya Klebanov.
Concern over the transaction and its threat to regional security was the subject of the call Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon made to the Russian president Vladimir Putin Tuesday, May 29, on the day of Yasser Arafat’s arrival in Moscow. Our sources disclose that Sharon talked tough. If the Russians are about to equip the Syrian army with top line weapons and go back to training hundreds of its officers in advanced methods of warfare as they did in the Soviet era, then next Middle East war could well erupt before the new weapons reach Damascus, he indicated.
He was sharpest on the three reconnaissance craft. The Russians offered them when the Syrian defense minister complained about joint Russian-Israeli collaboration in last year’s launching of the Israeli EROS-A1 spy satellite from the Svobodny space center, to be followed by seven further launchings.
To try and persuade the US to scotch the Russian-Syrian transaction, Israeli housing minister Nathan Sharansky flew to Washington 10 days ago to try and scotch it. He was told by deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz that the case was lost.
According to Moscow daily Izvestia, Syria offered to pay for its purchases and renovations over a period of years. Nonetheless the transaction goes far towards helping president Putin reach his$4b worth of arms sales target this year.
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources interpret the American response as representing their assessment that the Russian president has decided to tilt his Middle East towards support of the Damascus-Baghdad alliance. In addition to its arms deal with Damascus, Russia is secretly selling the Iraqi army advanced weapons, as well as up-to-date oil drilling and pumping systems. Russian oil engineers have quietly joined the Iraqi-Syrian teams working on the new Iraqi-Syrian oil pipeline to the Mediterranean, in which the two countries stand to invest $145 m. Russian banks appear willing to negotiate credit terms.
If the Kremlin has indeed opted for a Damascus-Baghdad orientation, its effective corollary would be backing for the Baghdad-Damascus-Gaza axis and, therefore, support for Yasser Arafat.
Some US and Israeli intelligence experts suggest that the Palestinian leader flew to Moscow when he did, on the heels of Mustafa Tlas, to test this assumption. There is still no word on what came out of his interview with Putin two days ago.
If this is what is going on under the surface, then Sharon’s assessment that a new Middle East war is round the corner could be correct.
The Russian-Syrian arms deal is extensive. It also covers the repair and upgrading of 4,000 tanks, including T-72s, all its BMP-1 APCs, and its entire air fleet of over 500 fighters and bombers - mainly MiG-21s and MiG-23s, and MiG-29s. http://www.debka.com/
