Armée Israélienne (IDF)

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La marine israélienne participe à la mission de l'OTAN en Méditerranée


La marine israélienne déploiera dans les prochains mois un bateau lance-missiles pour participer à une mission de l'OTAN destinée à patrouiller en Méditerranée et à lutter contre la contrebande d'armes, a rapporté jeudi le quotidien local Jerusalem Post sur son site Internet.

Cette décision a été prise mercredi soir par le chef d'état-major des Forces de défense israéliennes (FDI) Gabi Ashkenazi et le président du comité militaire de l'OTAN, l'amiral Giampaolo Di Paola, a précisé le journal, ajoutant que le choix du bateau israélien qui participera à la mission n'a pas encore été fait.

Ce sera la première fois pour que les FDI participeront activement à une opération de l'OTAN en Méditerranée dans le cadre de l'opération maritime anti-terroriste "Active Endeavor", une mission de l'OTAN établie après le 11 septembre, qui met en place des patrouilles de navires de l'OTAN en Méditerranée pour lutter contre la contrebande d'armes et les mouvements de terroristes.

Depuis la mise en oeuvre de cette mission après le 11 septembre, les forces de l'OTAN ont hélé plus de 100.000 navires commerciaux et examiné quelque 148 bateaux suspects, poursuit le journal.

M. Di Paola est arrivé mercredi en Israël pour une visite officielle de deux jours à l'invitation de M. Ashkenazi. Lors de leur rencontre de mercredi, les deux responsables ont discuté des moyens permettant de renforcer les relations militaires israélo-américaines et les relations Israël-OTAN.

Cette visite intervient à un moment où les FDI sont mises en cause par le rapport Goldstone qui épingle Israël sur l'offensive menée par Tsahal l'hiver dernier dans la bande de Gaza. Moment également où la Turquie, membre de l'OTAN, vient de décider d'interdir Israël de participer aux exercices aériens conjoints, conclut le journal.

SOURCE:http://french.peopledaily.com.cn/International/6818518.html

Arts martiaux israeliens

Excercice csar de la marine israélienne avec la marine canadienne

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Israel Readies for Ofeq-8 Launch

Tel Aviv - Israel is readying its newest spy satellite, Ofeq-8, for launch by the middle of next year, but production orders for a next-generation Ofeq-9 are stalled pending a cost-sharing and technical agreement with a prospective partner country.

The Ofeq-8, now in final construction at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), will be launched into low-Earth orbit by Israel's indigenous Shavit launcher, also built by IAI. It will house a high-resolution panchromatic payload, built by Elbit Systems Elop, similar to Israel's operational in-orbit Ofeq-5 and Ofeq-7 satellites, launched in 2002 and 2007 respectively.
Israel lost its Ofeq-6 in September 2004, when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea due to an electrical malfunction that failed to ignite the Shavit's third-stage motor.

"Ofeq-8 belongs to the same generation of our two earlier electro-optical satellites," an Israeli expert said. "Like [Ofeq-5 and Ofeq-7], it will be launched by our national launcher. Beyond that, details guiding the next generation of electro-optical satellites remain to be determined."
Leaders of the Israeli space industry bemoan funding, technical and political uncertainties that are obscuring a clear picture of the Ministry of Defense's future military space plans. At the beginning of the decade, MoD's road map included plans for a dedicated military communications satellite. It was dropped about five years ago in favor of enhanced downlinks and ground stations to support services from Israel's Amos and other commercial satellites.

Aside from the fully funded and soon-to-be-completed Ofeq-8, Israel plans a second synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, dubbed TecSAR-2, for launch in late 2011 or 2012. But beyond those two programs, government and industry sources say, not even MoD knows at this point how many satellites it can expect to deploy, what specific capabilities they will possess and which launchers will be used to insert them into orbit.
Officials attribute the uncertainty to funding shortfalls, which have forced MoD to seek foreign investment to supplement its approximately $80 million annual budget for military space.

Government and industry sources here said MoD has begun negotiations with a prospective Asian partner for the follow-on Ofeq-9, also known here as OPSAT3000. Israel's military censor prohibits identification of the prospective partner.
The next-generation satellite will feature an advanced panchromatic camera and possibly a multispectral imaging payload. But until Israel and its potential partner can harmonize respective capability requirements and agree on a final configuration, the project remains in various stages of development.

Similarly, the choice of a launch vehicle to insert Ofeq-9 into orbit will depend on the conclusion of a government-to-government agreement. If the foreign partner joins the program, it most likely will demand deployment into polar orbit, which cannot be done from Israel due to geographical limitations.

Israel faced the same situation with the 2008 launch of TecSAR, which used an Indian PSLV rocket to deploy the radar satellite into the polar orbit demanded by its Indian partner.
"Every Israeli remote sensing satellite, whether civilian or military, is designed to be launched with Israeli launch vehicles," said Tal Inbar, head of the Space Research Center at Israel's Fisher Institute for Strategic Air and Space Studies. "But whether this happens depends on multiple factors, one of them being needs of our partners.

"TecSAR was an exception, again for several reasons," he said. "One very important reason was the need to insure this very sophisticated and expensive satellite, which could not be obtained for a Shavit launch."
Chaim Eshed, director of space programs for Israel's MoD, declined to comment on military space plans or on discussions with prospective satellite partners. "I believe we're on the path to realizing our goals," he said.
At a Nov. 3 Tel Aviv University symposium, "Israeli Space: Crisis or Opportunity," Eshed said MoD is actively supporting efforts by the Israel Space Agency (ISA) and leading Israeli aerospace companies to secure significant, multiyear government funding for commercial space initiatives that would ultimately benefit national security needs.
Underfunded Space Budget

Retired Maj. Gen. Itzhik Ben-Israel, chairman of the Israel Space Agency, said government investment in space is woefully less per capita or as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) than for any other developed nation and most developing nations in the world. "The minimum that Israel should invest is $120 million to $150 million per year - some 0.1 percent of GDP - not including MoD spending," he said.
According to Ben-Israel, a former lawmaker who served for many years as MoD's director of defense research and development, Israeli defense industries sell more than $5 billion in defense technologies per year, which accounts for some 10 percent of global arms exports.

"There's no reason in the world why we shouldn't invest in the space market, where there are much less suppliers and our unique capabilities offer the added value needed to reap tremendous returns," he said.
The ISA chairman cited Israel's selection by the French space agency, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales, to build the satellite bus and payload for Project Venus, a multispectral mission to monitor water quality that is due for launch in mid-2012. The Israeli government committed $30 million of non-MoD funds for the project, which is viewed here as a springboard to future business.

A much larger program, in cooperation with the Italian Space Agency, now awaits government funding approval before an Israeli-Italian agreement, initialed in June, can be concluded. The prospective two-satellite program, dubbed Leonardo, envisions a 250-color hyperspectral payload for civilian imaging purposes. Israel needs to come up with half of the 160 million euros ($239.4 million) estimated for the program, he said.
"As an industry, we can't maintain our current status unless we increase sales," said Yossi Weiss, IAI corporate vice president and general manager of the company's Missiles and Space group.

To preserve Israel's space industrial base, significant government funding is required over the long term, Weiss said. He added that government and industrial efforts until now to attract private equity investment, with few exceptions, have not been successful.
Industry executives here noted that in 20 years, 13 Israeli satellites of various types have been launched into space. Weiss and other executives acknowledged that Israeli industry must do its part to become more efficient and competitive.

A wake-up call for IAI was SpaceCom's 2008 decision to hire a Russian company to build its newest Amos5 spacecraft, despite IAI's 17 percent holding in the military communications satellites' owner and operator.
"I'm not saying that there's a single point of blame," Weiss said. "But it's enormously frustrating that after 20 years in space, there's no national space policy and no central body for multiyear planning."
Gabby Sarusi, Elbit Elop vice president for imagery intelligence, told Nov. 3 conference participants that new orders for his firm's specialty electro-optical payloads are drying up, and it remains uncertain how much longer Israel can remain a player in the world's remote sensing market.
"Usually I'm optimistic, but now we're at the hour of truth," Sarusi said. "I feel the link connecting the previous generation to the next generation is unraveling, and we might have to suffice with the impressive legacy we've built up over the past 25 years."

defensenews

L'achat de corvettes allemande se précise. Selon le Jerusalem Post, une équipe allemande est arrivée en Israël pour bosser sur le projet. S'il n'est pas encore officialisé par une commande, la marine israëlienne s'achemine vers une frégate Meko de 2000 tonnes modifiées (dans le genre "Absalom" ) avec possibilité d'emport d'infanterie et de véhicules. Biensûr, hélico, Baraks, Harpoons et canons seront aussi embarqués.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258489192802&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.actu.co.il/2009/11/motivation-croissante-pour-les-unites-combattantes/

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Motivation croissante pour les unités combattantes
Alors que les nouvelles recrues s’apprêtent à revêtir l’uniforme de Tsahal, le porte-parole de l’armée israélienne indique que selon les dernières données dont il dispose, il aurait une motivation croissante des jeunes à s’engager dans des unités combattantes. Environ 73 % d’entre eux ont demandé à y être incorporés alors qu’ils n’étaient que 67 % l’an dernier. Autre chiffre pour l’incorporation de novembre 2009: 270 nouveaux immigrants se sont engagés, pour la plupart chez les fantassins

Atttends qu'il y ait une deuxième aventure au sud liban et tu verras le taux de motivation s'écrouler de façon spéctaculaire encore une fois.

je te rappelerai ces mots le moment opportun.

...qui j'espère n'arrivera pas!

rafi a écrit:

...qui j'espère n'arrivera pas!

Nous verrons en attendant continue a esperer.

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U.S. pitches unique F-35 fighter jet to Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new U.S.-built fighter jet and deliver it to Israel by 2015, provided a deal is sealed in coming months.
Lockheed Martin Corp, maker of the radar-evading F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, would tie in Israeli-built command, control, communications, computer and intelligence systems for a unique version of the jet for sale to Israel, Jon Schreiber, a senior Pentagon program official, told Reuters Monday.
The United States also would integrate bombs that use an Israeli precision guidance kit called Spice along with Python 5 air-to-air missiles made by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Schreiber said in an interview.
In addition, he said, Israel would get a relatively inexpensive path for hardware and software upgrades to add future weapons.
On the other hand, the United States does not plan for now to put an Israeli electronic warfare system aboard the F-35, which is in early stages of production.
"Some time in the future, if policy changes, or things change, that could change as well," said Schreiber, who heads the F-35 program's international program for the Pentagon.
Dropping plans for incorporating electronic warfare systems would be a significant switch for Israel, which bought modified U.S.-built F-15s and F-16s to incorporate such know-how.
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin are eager to wrap up an F-35 deal with Israel, which is tentatively planning to buy an initial 25 F-35s in fiscal 2012 with an option for 50 more.
The single-engine aircraft, designed to avoid detection by radar, could play a role in any Israeli effort to knock out what it regards as the threat to its existence posed by Iran's nuclear program.
Schreiber said he met Israeli procurement officials in New York last week to discuss a "roadmap" for the proposed government-to-government F-35 sale.
The United States planned to submit its offer and prices formally in January, he said. Israel must approve this no later than March and reach a deal with Lockheed on integrating the Israeli weapons and other systems by June or July, he added, to buy in fiscal 2012 for delivery in 2015.
The Israeli defense ministry did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. Lockheed had no comment.
Schreiber declined to discuss prices other than to say that Israel would buy the basic aircraft at the same price as the United States and its co-development partners, plus a standard government-to-government sales commission and whatever the integration of its systems might cost. Israel uses U.S. security assistance to buy much of its arsenal.
The United States co-developed the F-35 with eight foreign partners -- Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway. Together, the core group is projected to buy about 730 aircraft.
Schreiber said the United States had not yet begun to market the F-35 to any other potential buyers in the Middle East. The United States is committed to maintaining Israel's "qualitative" military edge over any regional rival.

Parachutistes et blindée en exercice sur le golan

ce sont ces soldats qui se sont fait ridiculisé par le Hezbollah?

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1259010984143&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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Air force to simulate missile defense

In an effort to better prepare missile defense operators for future conflicts, the Israel Air Force's Air Defense Division is in the midst of constructing a "simulator farm" which will be used to train soldiers manning Arrow, Patriot and Iron Dome defense systems.

The simulator farm will be located at the Air Defense Division's training base south of Beersheba and will also include a simulator for the Hawk surface-to-air missile system, the IAF's primary anti-aircraft missile.

In the coming months, the Air Defense Division will receive an advanced simulator of the Patriot missile system from Raytheon, the system's manufacturer. In addition, the IAF will soon receive a simulator for the Iron Dome system, which is in final test stages and is scheduled to be deployed along the Gaza border - to defend against Kassam and Katyusha rockets - by the middle of 2010.

"These simulators will allow us to train operators in the best way possible and improve their operational capabilities," said Col. Yariv Shnapp, commander of the Air Defense Division's Training Base.

The simulators would also allow the Air Defense Division to study mistakes and conduct thorough probes of its operations.

Israel is currently developing a number of new missile defense systems - a newer version of the Arrow called the Arrow 3 for long-range ballistic missiles, the Iron Dome for short-range rockets and David's Sling for medium-range rockets.

The Patriot will continue as a backup system for the Arrow, as well as to intercept enemy aircraft, another one of its applications.

Even though the Iron Dome and David's Sling are still in development, the systems were included in simulations that the IAF drilled together with the United States European Command and Missile Defense Agency during the Juniper Cobra joint missile defense exercise held here last month.

Shnapp said that the simulator farm would be the most advanced unit of its kind and would be made available to foreign militaries interested in studying and practicing new systems.

In addition to the soldiers from the US military that were recently in Israel, officers from Netherlands recently visited the base to study different training methods.

"There is no reason that other militaries that have these systems will not be able to come to Israel to study and train," Shnapp said. "We already hold a course here for battery commanders. There is no reason there can't be one at the same time in English."

Ahead of the planned deployment of Iron Dome, the IAF is in the process of creating the battalion that will operate the system. The first battery will be manned by soldiers who have already served as missile defense operators on the Patriot and Arrow systems. Starting in August 2010, the training base will begin a mandatory course on the system for all recruits.

The Air Defense Division is also currently writing the doctrine for the operation of the Iron Dome system. One of the main questions is whether there should be a "man in the middle" - an operator who decides when to launch an interceptor such as the Arrow.

The problem Shnapp explained, is that the Arrow intercepts long-range rockets which take several minutes to strike Israel. With Kassams and Katyushas fired from Gaza there is usually only a few seconds.

For this reason, the system will mostly work automatically and will be linked to a specially-designed radar that will distinguish between rockets that will strike population centers that need to be intercepted and rockets that will hit open areas and therefore do not need to be intercepted.

"It will likely work automatically and the operator will have the ability to stop it if necessary," he explained.

Spike is on the roll

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Rafael unveils new long-range Spike missile


Israeli arms developer Rafael has disclosed the existence of a new version of its Spike missile, with more than three times the range of previous variants.

Like its predecessors, the Spike non-line of sight (NLOS) missile can be fired by helicopters, ground vehicles and ships, and is guided to its target by a combination of a charge-coupled device and infrared seeker.

Previous variants have ranges from 200m (655ft) to 8km (4.3nm), but the Spike NLOS can hit targets up to 25km away, a Rafael executive says.

The Spike NLOS is already operational with a military customer, which is most likely to be the Israeli defence forces. Rafael is also offering the weapon for export, starting with the Spike family's existing 18 customers.

The NLOS weapon achieves its range mostly by increasing the size of the motor, with overall weight also increasing to 70kg (155lb). The next-largest variant, the Spike ER, weighs 34kg.

Rafael says the diameter of the NLOS missile has also changed, but declines to elaborate. The design is also offered with a variety of single warheads, but the types have not been disclosed.

The new weapon can be fired from helicopters. Previous versions of the Spike have been integrated on the Eurocopter Puma and Tiger by Slovenia and Spain respectively. Fixed-wing aircraft are not being considered as firing platforms for any member of the Spike family, Rafael says.

Details of the Spike NLOS have emerged even as the US Army has struggled to develop a similarly long-range weapon. The Lockheed Martin Joint Common Missile was expected to strike targets up to 29.6km away when fired from helicopters, but was cancelled in 2006. The Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) remains in competition, and is not expected to be fielded until 2016.

Unlike the Spike family, the US Army wants the JAGM to have the ability to strike moving targets in all weather, which requires a tri-mode seeker with millimetre-wave radar for terminal guidance.

Rafael has designed the Spike's on-board camera with the ability to strike targets in most weather conditions by day and night.

Flight Global

Avec cette nouvelle augmentation de portée le Spike sera parfaitement adapté aux chasseurs pour faire du CAS intensif, même avec ses 70kg il reste bcp moins lourd que le Mav, donc un chasseur pourra porter sous les ailes beaucoup de missiles de tel sorte qu'il suffira de lancer un petit nombre de chasseurs pour anéantir une colonne blindée.

non il est seulement concu pour Helicos

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Fixed-wing aircraft are not being considered as firing platforms for any member of the Spike family, Rafael says

Ah, d'accord, c'était une simple hypothèse. Mais de toute façon son concurrent américain le programme JAGM est destiné aux chasseurs aussi, notamment le Hornet/Super Hornet. Il est destiné à remplacer les Hellfire, Mav, et Tow pour être lancé à partir de:

AH-64D Apache
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
MH-60R/S Seahawk
AH-1Z Viper
MQ-1C Warrior
et potentiellement le JSF.

http://www.dtic.mil/descriptivesum/Y2008/Army/0603460A.pdf

Le Brimstone aussi est capable d'être lancé à partir du Typhoon, Tornado et Harrier. donc Rafael a interet à intgrer cette capacité pour améliorer ses chance pour l'export.

BOUBOU a écrit:

ce sont ces soldats qui se sont fait ridiculisé par le Hezbollah?

Ce ne sont pas les soldats qui se sont ridiculisés dans cette affaire, mais bien les politiques. A toute chose malheur est bon et cela ne devrait pas se reproduire, la leçon sera retenue, jusqu'à la prochaine fois...

Rafi