12 Replies to “What We Really Need Is Democracy”

  1. These are much more capable (bigger warhead, morew range, faster, better fusing, more sensitive seeker and built in IMF)than the old “Strellas” we acquired(captured) from the Soviets back in the day…..which were murder for the Soviet Hinds and even some jet attack craft.
    I have taunted my Russian associates as to why they ever brought the “Strellas” to fight insurgeants who mostly were on foot and had no aircraft….
    “Strella” is Russian for arrow….we called our mujahedin strella operators…archers….
    Designed by geniuses to be operated by idiots….

  2. Now how this relates to the preplanned, military attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, now that is a question.
    However, that question has fallen into the distance, perhaps permanently, as now it’s whether Assad will use the Weapons of Mass Destruction, the chemical/biological weapons everyone knows he possesses?
    Will instead, he retreat to an easier to defend area for his Alawite minority Shia sect and allies? Perhaps, keeping the WMD for bargaining purposes?
    Some suppose he still could accept an offer to flee to an Asylum in Iran or Russia, in a bargain for his family in exchange for allowing many enemies and innocents to live?
    I think that protecting the Alawites and close allies is a higher priority for him, and that would be the only bargain that he might strike if it is offered.
    What the Sunni jihadis will do with the leftover SAM 7 manpads is a question that may haunt the Obama regime, the Middle-East, and even Europe for the foreseeable future.

  3. Oh you mean old Conservatives are always so suspicious – that is just a picture of a member of the Damascus bird watching society and the contraption he’s carrying is a “Pigeon launcher” used to bait Hawks in closer to the camera lenses.

  4. “Assad will use the Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
    yikes , sounds familiar
    “The United States does not supply Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents with man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) but provides coordination and logistics support to such supplies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.”
    some one translate for me.
    http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20121025/176914583.html

  5. As long as moslems are killing other moslems I say – give them free ammo.
    It’s a win for everyone.

  6. As long as moslems are killing other moslems I say – give them free ammo.
    It’s a win for everyone.

  7. Since the Syrian revolt is an attempt to break the Iranian alliance running to the Mediterrainian. Such weapons should not surprise. This is primarily a Sunni driven effort financed by guess who, the Saudis. After all who threatens the Saudis more in the ME than the Iranians.
    The fact that the weapon supplier was a Sunni Iraqi is interesting. I suspect the Sunnni Iraqi’s see a Sunni dominated Syria as a safe haven and ally in the event of a civil was in Iraq. Eventually the focus in the ME will swing back to Iraq because of the strong Sunni minority and the reality that Iraq is shipping over 4 million bpd of crude. Much of this production is in areas dominated by Sunni and Kurdish Iraqi’s. Who keeps the money? I belieeve the Kurds have been running their own internal government in NE Iraq for 4 years now.
    I am sure the Israeli’s hope the focus is off them as the Arabs fight amongst themselves.

  9. I’m not too worried about SA-7s. They are early ’70s technology. What scares me is the late ’90s technology SA-24s which have longer range and all-aspect targeting capability. An SA-7 can only see a very hot jetpipe, you have to be behind the target to lock on and the engagement time is shorter as your target is flying away from you. In comparison an SA-24 can see and lock on to the plume of hot gases being ejected from the jetpipe from all aspects including the front of the plane. The sensor is sensitive enough to lock onto an airliners engine which is much cooler than a fighter jets.
    Libya had SA-24 missiles for use from vehicle mounted launchers, which are now missing. Bashar Assad’s forces had bought the ‘grips’ which allow the missiles to be shoulder-fired. Most of the missiles in rebel hands are SA-7s but there are confirmed photographs of SA-24s. Some of those SA-24s will end up in the USA off the end of the runway at LAX or LaGuardia.

  10. They got at least some if not most of these SA-7s from captured Syrian Army bases. There are videos online.

  12. Slightly off topic, but I just finished reading C.J. Chivers’ “The Gun” –it’s a look at the development of machine guns in the last hundred or so years with a particular emphasis on the AK-47. A really good read that I’m sure most SDA’S readers would enjoy.
    In the introduction there’s a great story about commie interference in Marshal Zhukov’s memoirs –a political commissar says to him, “who needs your truth if it stands in our way?”
    Sections on McNamara’s ‘Whiz Kids’ (ie, no military experience) and the development of the M16 are quite eye-opening as well.

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