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Saudi Arabia reportedly bought MBDA's Meteor air-to-air missiles for its Typhoon fighter aircraft

 

Tuesday, 03 February 2015 15:43

 

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and European missiles manufacturer MBDA have signed the first export contract of the Meteor active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), for an estimated amount of $1 bn, reports today French newspaper La Tribune.

 

The Meteor missiles will be fitted on the 24 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft already delivered to the Royal Saudi Air Force, according to La Tribune.

 

The MBDA Meteor BVRAAM was initially developed by the UK, though Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Sweden joined the project shortly thereafter. The missiles are designed for use aboard the Eurofighter Typhoon and Gripen C/D and will be used to counter long-range airborne threats well before they threaten the nation's borders.

 

MBDA's Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) being developed by MBDA. Meteor will offer a multi-shot capability against long range manoeuvring targets in a heavy electronic countermeasures (ECM) environment with range in excess of 100 km.

 

Each $2.2 million missile measures about 12 feet in length and 7 inches in diameter, weighs 400 pounds, and carries a blast-fragmentation warhead (though details on the the size of the package remain scarce). Its throttle-able ducted rocket (read: ramjet engine) uses a boron-heavy propellant mix to reportedly achieve a threefold increase in its specific impulse (the measure of a rocket's force—propellant consumption per unit of time) and a 300 percent larger no-escape zone than today's best ramjets like America's AGM-168 JAASM.

 

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Je suppose qu'ils veulent parler de l'AGM-158 JASSM, mais comme son nom l'indique c'est un missile air/sol pour lequel on ne peut pas parler de "no escape zone", et en plus il est propulsé par un turboréacteur.

C'est une reprise d'un vieille news de gizmondo de juillet dernier... et je suppose qu'ils voulaient a l'époque comparer le Meteor et l'Amraam.

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Au fait, qui pilote les avions saoudiens ? Des locaux ou des étrangers, ou un mix des deux, et dans quelle proportion dans ce cas ?

Je ne sais pas mais j'ai remarqué que les Indiens semblent craindre que des Pakistanais aient accès aux avions vendus dans le golf en tant que pilote. C'est un argument qu'ils utilisent contre le Typhoon.

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Au fait, qui pilote les avions saoudiens ? Des locaux ou des étrangers, ou un mix des deux, et dans quelle proportion dans ce cas ?

 

Désormais exclusivement des locaux.

 

 

America's Saudi air war

 

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Programmes de formations identiques sur l'Eurofighter Typhoon dans la RAF.

 

Exp : Royal Saudi Air Force Technicians Make The Grade

 

 

Une grande partie des pays du GCC étant équipé de chasseurs F-16 hors KSA. Dorénavant prise en compte d’une interopérabilité auquel je faisais référence auparavant.

 

Royal Saudi Air Force Partnership

 

 

 

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"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with its allies within the GCC and outside the GCC..." (cont.)

— Saudi Embassy (@SaudiEmbassyUSA)

March 25, 2015

 

Amb: "KSA launches military operations in Yemen with coalition of over 10 countries in response to request from the legitimate Yemen gov."

— Saudi Embassy (@SaudiEmbassyUSA)

March 25, 2015

 

"...Launched military operations in support of the people of Yemen and their legitimate government."

— Saudi Embassy (@SaudiEmbassyUSA)

March 25, 2015

 

A priori l'Arabie Saoudite, le Koweit, les UAE et l'Egypte seraient impliqués dans une intervention militaire au Yemen.

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Ce serait un F-15S. Les saoudiens prétendent qu'il se serait craché dans la mer rouge à cause d'une panne et que le pilote aurait été secouru. Les houthi prétendent qu'ils ont capturé un pilote soudanais...

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bonjour,

dites cela ne parait bizarre qu'à moi ou alors est ce normal 100 avions saoudiens vs le Yemen c'est pas un peu... too much ?

Bon c'est sur faudrait pas qu'ils perdent un F15 à chaque sortie... Après le F15E américain en Libye c'est la loi des séries sur le F15 !...

De même 10 avions du qatar qui n'a que 12 Mirage 2000-5 en tout cela fait quand même un sacré ratio ?

sans parler des autres avions Barhein, Koweit , EAU ( bon là 30 probablement 15 F16 et 15 Mirage 2000-9 me semble raisonnable compte tenu du nbr d'avions disponibles au sein de leur aviation).

Que tous les avions ne soient pas en vol en même temps certe, mais quand même cela fait quand même un peu marteau piqueur pour écraser une cacaouète.

C'est quand même leur première intervention sans les occidentaux ! les temps changent...

enfin c'est juste mon avis...

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bonjour,

dites cela ne parait bizarre qu'à moi ou alors est ce normal 100 avions saoudiens vs le Yemen c'est pas un peu... too much ?

Bon c'est sur faudrait pas qu'ils perdent un F15 à chaque sortie... Après le F15E américain en Libye c'est la loi des séries sur le F15 !...

De même 10 avions du qatar qui n'a que 12 Mirage 2000-5 en tout cela fait quand même un sacré ratio ?

sans parler des autres avions Barhein, Koweit , EAU ( bon là 30 probablement 15 F16 et 15 Mirage 2000-9 me semble raisonnable compte tenu du nbr d'avions disponibles au sein de leur aviation).

Que tous les avions ne soient pas en vol en même temps certe, mais quand même cela fait quand même un peu marteau piqueur pour écraser une cacaouète.

C'est surtout drôle de voir la différence d'implication face a Daesh, on voit la (sacré) différence de perception des menaces ^^

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Cela ressemble à un gigantesque exercice interarmées.

 

Non, c'est beaucoup plus profond.

 

 

Ambiance :

 

 

A salute to our heroes liberating Yemen

 

Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor

Friday, 27 March 2015

 

On Thursday, I awoke to news that brought peace of mind and filled my heart with pride, feelings I’m certain are shared by my Emirati compatriots and nationals of GCC states, and all dignified Arabs. Finally, we have taken command of our own destiny and control of our own security. For many decades, I’ve been longing for this very moment. Just when Yemen was going the way of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq – all Arab countries under Iranian domination via proxies – the tide is turning in our favour as I write.

 

It goes without saying that conflict should always be a last option, but there can be no meaningful dialogue with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a nation with ambitions of reinstating the Persian Empire and quashing Arabs under its boot, just as it has stamped upon Sunnis and ethnic/religious minorities in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq as well as the long-suffering Ahwazi Arabs.

 

Perhaps Iran can succeed in pulling the wool over the eyes of the P5 +1 whose representatives are negotiating over Tehran’s uranium enrichment program, but it cannot con its Gulf neighbours, who’ve fallen foul of Iran’s tricks time and time again.

 

There should be no stopping until Yemen is cleansed of pro-Iranian traitors and the legitimate government is reinstated in the capital, Sana’a. There should be no concessions made to the Shiite Houthi militias; those Iranian operatives have forfeited the right to call themselves ‘Arab’. They are betrayers deserving of the severest of punishments.

 

Ultimate betrayal

 

Fighters who choose to surrender do not merit trials; they should be shipped to their ideological motherland, Iran. Their actions - dissolving parliament, ejecting the democratically-elected president, taking over government buildings and terrorising Yemenis from north to south - constitute the ultimate betrayal.

 

I’ve observed Iran’s ideological and geopolitical expansion with great sorrow - and have long feared that without strong actions to thwart Iran’s aims, Gulf States risk being targeted next. But now that Saudi Arabia has launched “Operation Decisive Storm” together with its Gulf allies in Yemen’s defence at the request of the internationally-recognised government led by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, I feel that a positive new page has been turned. This is what we have been hoping-for; this is what our people want.

 

Militias who make obeisance to the ayatollahs and have made armed incursions into Saudi Arabia cannot be permitted control over Yemen’s airplanes, missiles, tanks and other military equipment. And neither can they be trusted not to hold siege to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that not only connects the Red sea with the Indian Ocean but is also a link to the Suez Canal.

 

“We don’t require a green light from anyone to defend our land”

 

Kudos to those GCC leaders who were courageous enough to take the right decisions! History will record this brave stance you have taken to defend Yemen’s sovereignty and our region’s security. Today, we have leaders willing to lead rather than follow diktats from big powers. Your names will be engraved on monuments and will remain in the hearts of our children and grandchildren. Bravo! May God help you always to do what is best for our Arab nation!

 

Defensive military intervention

 

‘Decisive Storm’ is the perfect name for this defensive military intervention taken by the descendants of some of the greatest Arab leaders beginning with the Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), whose victorious mantel was adopted by the second Muslim Caliph Omar ibn Al-Khattab, commander of the Muslim armies who defeated Khosrau, King of Persia and Heraclius, the Byzantine Emperor.

 

We are showing Iran and the world that we will no longer bury our heads in the sand while keeping up the pretence that all is well. We are displaying our strength with a massive show of military might thanks also to staunch backing from our allies – Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Morocco and Pakistan, which have all pledged to contribute to this righteous battle. Thank you to all our friends who didn’t hesitate to stand with their Yemeni brothers in their hour of need.

 

It is my hope that the Arab League Summit to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh on March 28-29 will be just as decisive in its backing of a Joint Arab Force able to tackle any emergency in our part of the world. We can no longer rely on our western allies to do the job for us, especially when their foreign policies are muddled and incoherent. The U.S. is courting Iran in Switzerland and sharing intelligence with the Iranian military supposedly ‘advising’ the Iraqi Army in its campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), even as it supports the Syrian opposition battling Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah defending the criminal Assad regime.

 

I must admit that I’ve been irritated watching Western and Arab analysts discuss Yemen on various television networks. Invariably, presenters all ask the same question: Was ‘Decisive Storm’ launched with approval from the Obama administration? What kind of question is that?

 

Treated like underage children

 

We don’t require a green light from anyone to defend our land, the safety of our peoples or our collective dignity. As a nation of 367 million, acknowledged as the birthplace of civilisation, we resent being treated like underage children. We neither need nor should seek permission from anyone.

 

It is my fervent hope that once Yemen is delivered from the Houthi epidemic, this Saudi-led coalition made-up of ten likeminded countries will be preserved and will turn its attention of freeing Iraq from Persian occupation. Iraq must be ruled by loyal Arabs, whether Sunni or Shiite, not those on bended knee to a foreign state working against Arab interests.

 

And, God willing, the day will come when our beloved Lebanon and Syria will no more be enslaved to Iran’s bullying proxies, provided our leaders keep up this historic patriotic impetus. If we don’t free our Arab territories from the silent diseases tearing them apart, the peoples of the Gulf and those of our allies will remain in constant danger.

 

Lastly, I must congratulate our GCC leaders. You have made us proud. Your firm action permits us to hold our heads high; I pray that you will continue to defend our nation, our independence and our dignity. And to our armed forces, especially our pilots that risk their lives during every mission, I wish you every success. Keep safe and may God strengthen you in your task of protecting our Arab soil, our Yemeni brothers and sisters and our honour.

 

Al Arabiya

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