-->Hallo Dottore!

>Weltweit größter Waffenhändler war zum dritten Mal in Folge Russland, das mit einem Anteil von mehr als 37 Prozent auf dem Rüstungssektor nun wieder so dominant ist wie zu Sowjetzeiten.


Und die Russen scheinen ja so einiges anzubieten haben...

Kürzlich wurde hier ein Beitrag eingestellt, für den ich mich an dieser Stelle bedanken möchte. Er trug den Titel „Global Economy SPEAKING FREELY
US complicit in its own decline By W Joseph Stroupe“
Hier ein, zumindest für mich, hoch interessanter Auszug:
„US military platforms, while very formidable, are also comparatively expensive, large and unwieldy, and are much like sitting ducks in the face of a whole new generation of Russian-made ultra-quiet diesel-electric attack submarines, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, supersonic torpedoes, sophisticated air-defense/anti-missile systems, laser-guided anti-tank weapons and anti-ship and land-attack short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles designed for in-theater use. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has described Russian supersonic missiles as the most dangerous on the planet, and for good reason. There exists no effective defense against them. Interestingly, the US has no supersonic cruise missiles deployed anywhere in the world. Current US aircraft-carrier battle-group anti-missile defensive measures consist of ECM (electronic countermeasures) and, at the last few moments, the Point Defense System, radar-guided high-speed, high-capacity machine-guns that lock on to incoming missiles and attempt to destroy them. Such defenses are very effective against incoming subsonic cruise missiles.

However, in the case of the new Russian missiles, US naval defenses, if they detect the incoming missiles at all (AWACS aircraft are the only practical means for doing so), will have less than three seconds thereafter to shoot them down. They can be launched from aircraft, surface ships, or submerged submarines. They travel at Mach 2.5 (about 2,980 kilometers per hour, or about 830 meters per second), much faster than a high-powered rifle bullet. They skim only meters above the ocean surface, do not give away their presence by emitting any form of radiation as they approach their target, are hardened against ECM, and are nuclear-capable. Russia and India are now deploying and marketing the"Brahmos", a jointly developed supersonic anti-ship cruise missile, based on the Russian design. Russia also possesses a nuclear-capable supersonic torpedo that travels faster than the speed of sound underwater - therefore it cannot be reliably detected and tracked by a conventional sonar detection system, because it travels faster than the sonar waves do.

Russia has also developed and deployed sophisticated air-defense and missile-defense systems capable of managing and destroying scores of targets at once. Russian diesel-electric submarines are ultra-quiet, and can detect enemy ships and submarines at a distance of four times that at which they themselves can be detected. Russian anti-tank weapons in use in Iraq scored a number of"kills" against the most advanced tanks in the world. Russia has sold many of these weapons systems to China and others. Russia and India have also developed an ultra-long-range air-to-air missile designed specifically to attack AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) and JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) aircraft that the US and Israel use in warfare to extend their vision and reach. The downing of AWACS and JSTARS aircraft will in effect blind the United States in any conflict without necessarily having to resort to the downing of the US satellite constellation. This is true because virtually all battlefield assets are managed by the AWACS and JSTARS systems. Without the AWACS and JSTARS aircraft, the ability of the US military to see any air or land target is severely reduced.


Nun gehört klappern zum Handwerk und vielleicht ist vieles von diesen „Schneller als der Schall Torpedos“ auch nur ein Bluff. Zumindest einiges scheint zu stimmen. Letztens brachte Spiegel Online das Bild von einem im Irak abgeschossenen Abraham- Panzer und fragte ganz scheinheilig, wer denn da wohl seine neue „laser-guided anti-tank weapon“ ausprobiert haben könnte. (Den Spiegel-Beitrag habe ich hier eingestellt.)

Jetzt mal angenommen, die derzeitige amerikanische Clique provoziert einen ihrer
„splendid little wars“ gegen Iran. Kriegsgrund wie immer beliebig... Und gleich zur Eröffnung verlieren sie zwei AWACS und einen ihrer atomgetriebenen Flugzeugträger. Das, und nur das, wäre für mich der Trigger für das ganze Kartenhaus...

Gruß

-->Die beschützten Teile der Weltgemeinschaft, wie unser deutscher Michel, bezahlen diesen Militärservice dann über andere Konten - jedenfalls nicht als Waffengeschäft: Natoleistungen in Afghanistan oder UN-Mitgliedsbeiträge, Verzicht auf Wiederaufbauleistungen, Crossborderleasing oder Milliardenversenkung bei Chrysler - es gibt viele Wege der Geldwäsche.