I know you don't get, but you will https://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2022/11/india-for-handful-of-dollars-and.html
And lets not forget, India was/is a main Russian military proxy(third party manufacturer of foreign arsenal for Russia which was given to India by Russia) between technology which Russia acquired from West and West alone. VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS WELL WELL AWARE OF INDIAN G20 PRESIDENCY WHICH IS COMING AS NEXT AT G20 - VLADIMIR PUTIN BASED HIS WAR ON UKRAINE ALMOST ENTIRELY ON INDIAN FACTOR...MORE SO THAN EVEN ON CHINA AND ISRAEL. FOR A HANDFUL OF DOLLARS AND RICE https://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2022/11/india-for-handful-of-dollars-and.html
NARENDA MODI CLAIMED SAME AS NETANYAHU AND ISRAELI STATE - IF YOU MENTIONED ME OR CRITICIZE INDIA, ALL THEY WILL IS TO REMOVE ME AND YOU WILL LOOSE ANOTHER WITNESS AND INDIA NEVER WILL HELP YOU + INDIA WILL TURN AGAINST UKRAINE AS WILL BE NO REASON LEFT TO HELP UKRAINE....SAAAME MK ULTRA TECHNOLGY SAME SHIT, "TELLY ME WHO I AM, HOW DO YOU KNOW, I DON'T REMEMBER, IDENTIFY ME BUT KEEP SILENT OR I WILL BLAH LALALA"(ITS ALSO KNOWN AS TERRORISM - FASCISM AND TERRORISM IS WHAT MAKES MODERN INDIAN STATE).
VLADIMIR PUTIN HAD A REASON TO COUNT ON INTERNATIONAL COMEBACK - INDIA IS NEXT IN G20: Fascist Indian state should have been thrown out of G20 and membership at United Nations - India probably caused more damage in terms of financing Russia ethnic cleansing against people of Ukraine in Ukraine than Russia alone
Russia laundering Western-manufactu ..
LONDON: A report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British defence and security think tank, claims that companies in India could be covertly helping Western-manufactured components bypass arms embargoes to make their way into Russian weapons deployed in Ukraine.
The report, titled “Operation Z: The Death Throes of an Imperial Delusion”, written by Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at RUSI, and Nick Reynolds, research analyst for land warfare, RUSI, details how various pieces of Russian military equipment found on the battlefield in Ukraine contain foreign-made components prohibited under Western arms embargoes.
“There is a consistent pattern across all major Russian weapons systems recovered from the battlefield. The 9M949 guided 300-mm rocket uses a US-made fibre-optic gyroscope for its inertial navigation. The Russian TOR-M2 air-defence system relies on a British-designed oscillator in the computer controlling the platform’s radar. This pattern is true in the Iskander-M, the Kalibr cruise missile, the Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile, and many more besides,” the report states.
“Russia’s modern military hardware is dependent upon complex electronics imported from the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Israel, China and further afield.”
The report, titled “Operation Z: The Death Throes of an Imperial Delusion”, written by Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at RUSI, and Nick Reynolds, research analyst for land warfare, RUSI, details how various pieces of Russian military equipment found on the battlefield in Ukraine contain foreign-made components prohibited under Western arms embargoes.
“There is a consistent pattern across all major Russian weapons systems recovered from the battlefield. The 9M949 guided 300-mm rocket uses a US-made fibre-optic gyroscope for its inertial navigation. The Russian TOR-M2 air-defence system relies on a British-designed oscillator in the computer controlling the platform’s radar. This pattern is true in the Iskander-M, the Kalibr cruise missile, the Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile, and many more besides,” the report states.
“Russia’s modern military hardware is dependent upon complex electronics imported from the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Israel, China and further afield.”
But the authors say that it is not clear that the Western companies manufacturing them “knew that the Russian military was the end-user”.
“Many components are dual-use technologies. Meanwhile, Russia has established mechanisms for laundering these items through third countries. Restricting access, therefore, likely means preventing export to countries such as India of goods that are in some instances used for civilian purposes,” the report says.
“Many components are dual-use technologies. Meanwhile, Russia has established mechanisms for laundering these items through third countries. Restricting access, therefore, likely means preventing export to countries such as India of goods that are in some instances used for civilian purposes,” the report says.
UK government sources told TOI: “It is likely that some Russian military equipment contains sub-components, some of which are dual-use items that are not controlled, obtained from and through a range of Western and other countries, including the UK… These are commercial and industrial components which are not subject to export controls, and which are available from suppliers around the world.”
The UK Department of International Trade is now working internally to understand Russian procurement networks with a view to working with partners to develop further sanctions against Russia which would make this procurement more difficult.
The UK Department of International Trade is now working internally to understand Russian procurement networks with a view to working with partners to develop further sanctions against Russia which would make this procurement more difficult.
It comes just after UK PM Boris Johnson visited India to announce a new and expanded defence partnership between the two countries, including the UK sharing new technology with India.
According to the authors, in mid-March the Russian presidential administration established an interdepartmental committee, overseen by deputy Russian defence minister Aleksei Krivoruchko, to survey Russian defence equipment to establish what could be produced domestically, what could be sourced from “friendly” countries as well as “the development of covert means to obtain critical components”.
“Russia is prepared to use blackmail to keep these channels open. For example, many of the computer components in Russian cruise and ballistic missiles are purchased ostensibly for civilian use in Russia’s space programme. Moreover, there are myriad companies based around the world, including in the Czech Republic, Serbia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, India and China, who will take considerable risks to meet Russian supply requirements. Constraining these supply routes without alienating the governments in these states will be a delicate policy needle to thread. It likely requires a systematic targeting of Russia’s special services tasked with orchestrating these supply chain operations,” the report adds.
“Russia is prepared to use blackmail to keep these channels open. For example, many of the computer components in Russian cruise and ballistic missiles are purchased ostensibly for civilian use in Russia’s space programme. Moreover, there are myriad companies based around the world, including in the Czech Republic, Serbia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, India and China, who will take considerable risks to meet Russian supply requirements. Constraining these supply routes without alienating the governments in these states will be a delicate policy needle to thread. It likely requires a systematic targeting of Russia’s special services tasked with orchestrating these supply chain operations,” the report adds.
A UK government spokesperson said: “We take all credible allegations of breaches of export control seriously, and we will take further action if appropriate.”
Israeli Arms Exports Skyrocket Amid Ukraine War, Iran and Abraham Accords
2021 was a record year for Israel's arms exports. These are this year's biggest deals so far
Last year set a record for the volume of Israel’s military and security exports, which surged by 30 percent over the prior year, according to the Defense Ministry’s International Defense Cooperation Directorate. Israeli defense industries reported new contracts worth a cumulative $11.3 billion in 2021 – up from $8.6 billion in 2020.
This year is not yet over, but it appears to be on track to chalk up particularly high sales volumes and a long list of enormous defense deals – and that’s even though the Defense Ministry’s Exports Control Agency has only approved a relatively low number of transactions compared to prior years, according to data obtained by Haaretz. Through September, the agency reported approving just under 4,000 sales contracts – compared to 6,000 in 2020 and 5,400 last year.
There were two main reasons for the sales volume uptick: the Abraham Accords, which paved the way for new diplomatic relations with countries in the Arab world a little over two years ago, and the war in Ukraine. The normalization agreements that Israel signed with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco have massively boosted exports to countries in the region, and last year, which, as noted, was a record one for military exports, already saw Persian Gulf countries account for roughly 7 percent of such sales.
In recent months, it has been disclosed that Israel has sold advanced Barak and Spyder air defense systems to the UAE, which is threatened by Iranian drones and missiles. And this year Morocco also signed a contract of its own for Barak interceptor systems.
The growing threat from Iranian drones, including on the battlefields of Ukraine, and the wide-scale aerial attacks by Russia there have have also highlighted the successes of Israeli air defense systems in dealing with similar threats, and boosted the European interest in purchasing those systems. Currently a huge deal to sell Arrow 3 interceptor missiles to Germany is on the table.
“There’s an understanding today that the air defense issue is very central – and it’s comprised of a number of layers – defense against missiles and airplanes as well as against [large and small] drones,” Boaz Levy, the CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries, told Haaretz. “If at one time Israel was being attacked by missiles and the world looked on from the sidelines, today there are more countries that suddenly understand in greater depth what it is to be under a missile attack.”
Speaking with Haaretz over the weekend, as IAI released their quarterly financial reports, Levy said "it's been a really good year for IAI... We've seen increased sales, totalling $3.6 billion for the first 9 months, which means we'll total almost $5 billion for 2022. That's a fantastic achievement".
“The field of air defense will continue to be one of greater importance in light of the changes in threats from the air around the world,” said Dr. Liran Antebi, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, “in part because of the growing expansion of simple, cheap and available means such as suicide drones and small drones, alongside the classic threats.”
Iran manufactures attack drones in large quantities, and they can be launched in barrages from Iraq and Yemen at targets in the Gulf – at oil facilities, airports and ships. They are very cheap, about $20,000 per unit, and they can cause considerable damage. That could be seen at Aramco facilities in Saudi Arabia and in the enormous damage that the Russians have inflicted in Ukraine since they began using Iranian drones there in October.
On Wednesday of this week, another drone attack was reported off the coast of Oman against an oil tanker that is partially owned by Israeli businessman Idan Ofer. In an attack in August 2021 in the Gulf of Oman against the oil tanker Mercer Street, two crew members were killed.
“The Abraham Accords have a lot of potential. Countries in our region have begun cooperating with Israel, and it’s a win-win situation for all sides,” Levy of Israel Aerospace said in a telephone conversation from Bahrain. “This is the first time that we have officially come here to the aviation fair in Bahrain – with an Israeli pavilion, under the Israeli flag, under the banner of Israel Aerospace Industries.”
Air defenses
A few months ago, Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed that in the two years since the Abraham Accords, Israel has signed defense export agreements worth $3 billion with countries in the region, an enormous jump for a market that had been considerably off-limits to Israel. Last month, satellite photos revealed that the UAE has deployed a Barak missile battery to defend against Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones. Nevertheless, in the absence of an official announcement by Israel or by the UAE or IAI, it’s still not yet clear which version of the Barak system or how many batteries are involved. The monetary value of the sale also remains unknown.
Another deal that was revealed this year was the sale to the Emirates of a Spyder air defense system by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The Spyder system is capable of intercepting airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles and drones within a range of up to 100 kilometers (62 miles). The Spyder’s design relies on a vehicle-launched system equipped with Python air-to-air missiles that lock onto their targets using radar and Derby radar-seeking missile. In this case too, additional details of the deal have yet to be revealed, including the precise system model, the number of batteries involved and the deal’s price tag. But for comparison purposes, when the Czech Republic bought four Spyder batteries last year, the sale was worth $630 million.
In February, a short time after Gantz visited the Moroccan capital, Rabat, IAI reported that it would supply a Barak MX air defense system to the Moroccans that is a combination of a number of Barak missile models – in a transaction worth about $600 million.
Another huge transaction took on much greater urgency due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Germany, followed by 13 other NATO members along with Finland, which is not a NATO member, joined the European Sky Shield initiative, which aims to create a joint aerial defense cover. As part of the Sky Shield initiative, Germany has made the decision to equip itself with the Arrow 3 system. It was initially reported that the sale would be valued at $2 billion, but after the other countries joined in, the anticipated price tag is around $3 billion.
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