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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Ahmadinejad: Kapitalisme di Ambang Kekalahan

VIVAnews - Presiden Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, memprediksi jatuhnya kapitalisme sekaligus menuding para pelaku utama bisnis tingkat global bertanggungjawab bagi penderitaan banyak orang di muka bumi. Sebaliknya, Kanselir Jerman, Angela Merkel, menyatakan bahwa ekonomi pasar memainkan peran kunci dalam mengangkat negara-negara terbelakang dari kemiskinan.
"Perang retorika" antar dua pemimpin itu terjadi saat mereka mendapat giliran berpidato pada sidang tahunan Majelis Umum Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (PBB) di New York, Amerika Serikat (AS), Selasa 21 September 2010 waktu setempat. Sesi sidang saat itu membahas perkembangan Tujuan Pembangunan Milenium (MDGs) dan bagaimana program itu mengangkat banyak negara dari kemiskinan, wabah penyakit, dan kesenjangan sosial.
Para pemimpin dari lebih 140 negara anggota PBB - termasuk Ahmadinejad dan Merkel - mendapat giliran berpidato selama sesi MDG, yang berlangsung dari Senin hingga Rabu, 22 September 2010.  

Berbeda dari pidato para pemimpin lain, Ahmadinejad tidak menyebut perkembangan program MDGs di negaranya. Pemimpin berusia 53 tahun itu justru memanfaatkan forum di PBB untuk mengritik kapitalisme dan tata pemerintahan global yang selama ini tidak demokratis dan tidak adil.
Dia menyerukan para pemimpin, pemikir dan tokoh reformasi global untuk bekerja sekeras mungkin dalam membuat rencana-rencana praktis demi terciptanya tatanan dunia baru - diantaranya reformasi atas institusi-institusi ekonomi dan politik.
"Kini tatanan kapitalisme dan pendekatan hegemoni yang diskriminatif berada di ambang kekalahan," kata Ahmadinejad. Maka, dia mengusulkan agar PBB menyebut sepuluh tahun ke depan sebagai dekade bagi pemerintahan global bersama.

Tak lama kemudian, Merkel menimpali pidato Ahmadinejad. Berasal dari kekuatan ekonomi nomor empat di dunia, Merkel pun cenderung berbicara mewakili dunia kapitalis. Dia menekankan bahwa tanggungjawab utama bagi pembangunan berada di pundak pemerintah negara-negara berkembang.
Menurut kepala pemerintah Jerman itu, pemerintahan yang baik dan ekonomi kapitalis yang tumbuh dengan subur merupakan kunci bagi kemakmuran ekonomi. "Maka negara-negara harus mendorong pembangunan ekonomi pasar, karena tanpa disertai pertumbuhan ekonomi yang mandiri, negara-negara berkembang akan sulit melangkah dari kemiskinan dan kelaparan," kata Merkel.
Dia juga menilai bahwa bantuan internasional tidak bisa menggantikan peran sumber daya domestik. Merkel pun mengingatkan bahwa bantuan pembangunan tidak bisa terus-terusan berlangsung. "Dukungan bagi terciptanya pemerintahan yang baik sama pentingnya dengan bantuan itu sendiri," kata Merkel. (Associated Press)
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Rusia Habiskan 613 Miliar Dolar Untuk Senjata

Rusia Habiskan 613 Miliar Dolar Untuk Senjata
Moskow (ANTARA News) - Rusia merencanakan untuk menghabiskan 19 triliun rubel (613 miliar dolar Amerika Serikat) untuk membeli senjata baru dalam satu dasawarsa mendatang saat negara itu berusaha memoderninasi militer era Soviet-nya.

Menteri Pertahanan Anatoly Serdyukov dalam wawancara dengan kantor berita Bloomberg yang disiarkan Selasa mengatakan pemerintah sedang dalam proses untuk menyetujui rencana untuk menaikkan anggaran persenjataan pada 2011-2020 dengan 46 persen dari anggaran sebelumnya sekitar 13 triliun rubel, sebagaimana dikutip dari AFP.

Serdyukov, yang berbicara menyusul pembicaraannya dengan Menhan AS Robert Gates, juga mengatakan Rusia telah tertarik dengan teknologi AS. Ia tidak memerinci pernyataannya itu.

Banyak peralatan militer Rusia berasal dari masa Soviet dan pemerintah dalam beberapa tahun belakangan ini telah menjanjikan uang tambahan untuk modernisasi persenjataannya.

Rusia telah berunding dengan Perancis selama beberapa bulan untuk membeli sebuah kapal induk helikopter Mistral, untuk pembelian perangkat keras militer pertamanya dari anggota NATO. Pembicaraan itu, bagaimanapun, telah terperosok akibat perselisihan mengenai alih teknologinya.
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Jual Rudal ke Suriah, Israel Marah kepada Rusia


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Rudal S-300 buatan Rusia
JERUSALEM, KOMPAS.com - Israel mengecam Rusia, Senin (20/9), karena berencana menjual rudal jelajah anti-kapal kepada Suriah. Israel menyatakan, senjata canggih itu dapat diserahkan kepada gerilyawan Hezbollah di negara tetangga Suriah, Lebanon.

Menteri Pertahanan AS, Robert Gates, sebagaimana dikutip pejabat pers Pentagon, Geoff Morrel, mengatakan di Washington kepada Menteri Pertahanan Israel Ehud Barak, yang sedang berkunjung, bahwa ia sama prihatinnya dengan Israel mengenai penyebaran senjata canggih yang dapat merusak kestabilan wilayah tersebut.

Kesepakatan penjualan rudal Yakhont, senilai 300 juta dollar AS, diumumkan pekan lalu oleh Menteri Pertahanan Rusia Anatoly Serdyukov. Ia mengatakan kepada kantor berita RIA bahwa kesepakatan tersebut berasal dari kontrak tahun 2007 dan juga telah menghadapi keberatan dari Amerika Serikat.

Pengumuman itu telah meningkatkan kemarahan di Israel, yang Menteri Pertahanannya Ehud Barak mengunjungi Moskowa bulan September untuk menandatangani kesepakatan kerja sama militer dan mendesak Rusia agar tidak memasok Suriah dengan senjata yang dapat menantang kekuatan Israel.

Ehud Barak, yang mengunjungi Washington, Senin, menyampaikan keprihatinan selama pertemuan dengan para pejabat Gedung Putih bahwa rudal Yakhont dapat diserahkan kepada Hezbollah, sebagaimana telah terjadi pada waktu lalu, dan digunakan untuk melawan Israel.

Gates, yang bertemu dengan Ehud Barak di Pentagon, juga mengangkat masalah penjualan senjata dengan Menteri Pertahanan Rusia Anatoly Serdyukov selama pertemuan mereka di Washington pekan lalu.

Amerika Serikat mengerti, Rusia memiliki hak untuk menjual senjata, tapi "Kami ingin mereka mempertimbangkan akibat strategis dari penjualan itu", kata Morrell yang menggambarkan pesan Gates kepada Serdyukov.

Suriah membantah Damaskus mempersenjatai Hezbollah, yang juga mendapat dukungan Iran. Hezbollah mengejutkan Israel dengan menyerang salah satu kapal angkatan lautnya dengan satu rudal jelajah selama perang Lebanon 2006.

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Sukhoi is completing preliminary tests of the Su-35

The photoes of The Su-35 at Moscow MAKS-2007


The development and production of the 4++ generation Su-35 fighter is among priority programs of the Sukhoi Company. Under this program, a number of technologies are being optimized for operational use of a fifth-generation airborne combat complex.

Now the company is completing preliminary tests of the Su-35. The aircraft fully proves the claimed characteristics of the avionics and demonstrates super-maneuverable capabilities. The maximum ground-level speed attained is 1,400 km/h, speed at altitude – 2,500 km/h, and ceiling – 19,000 m. The target detection range in the air-to-air mode is over 400 km. This markedly exceeds the similar characteristics of in-service aircraft. The size of a target detected in the air-to-surface mode is up to 10 m. The onboard optic detection and ranging station detects and simultaneously tracks several targets at a range of more than 80 km. The complex is ready for pre-operational trials, announced the Director General of Sukhoi Mikhail Pogosyan today at the press conference at the Farnborough International Airshow-2010 Press Center.

Due to completion of preliminary tests and preparation for joint acceptance trials, the Russian Air Force pilots start participating in flights. The first pilot to fly the Su-35S was Alexander Kruzhavin, commander of a military unit. He valued highly the flight performance of the aircraft.

The Su-35S aircraft (a version for the Russian AF), along with the frontline aviation’s advanced airborne complex (FAAAC), will determine Russia’s defense capability. Under a state contract signed in 2009 to supply the Russian Defense Ministry till 2015 with forty-eight Su-35S aircraft, the Company’s facilities in Komsomolsk-na-Amure have launched serial production of fighters. The first one will be made available by the end of the year. Bulk deliveries will start in 2011. The technologies employed in the Su-35S program will enable the Russian AF to partially reequip the country’s air forces and to swiftly switch over to the next-generation machines.

Sukhoi is also holding talks with foreign customers anxious to re-arm their air forces. They are scheduled for the countries of South East Asia, Middle East and South America. The signing of new contracts will maintain Russia’s competitiveness on the global fighter market. The bulk exports are due to start in 2012.

The Second Su-35 flight photoes. The 2nd of October 2008
The Su-35 photos

Serial production of the Su-35 fighter and its delivery to customers will maintain Sukhoi’s competitiveness on the global combat aircraft market till a fifth-generation fighter emerges there in 2016-2025.

The Su-35 is a thoroughly upgraded super-maneuverable fighter of the 4++ generation. It employs technologies of the fifth generation that assure its superiority over similar class fighters. The special features of the aircraft include a new avionics suite based on digital information control system integrating onboard systems, a new radar with a phased antenna array having a long aerial target detection range with an increased number of simultaneously tracked and engaged targets (30 aerial targets tracked and 8 engaged plus the tracking of 4 and engagement of 2 ground targets), and new enhanced vectored thrust engines. The Su-35 has a diverse suite of long-, medium- and short-range weapons. It can carry guided aerial munitions for anti-radar and anti-ship actions as well as general purpose munitions, and guided and unguided aerial bombs. The radar signature of the fighter has been reduced by several times as compared to that of the fourth-generation aircraft by coating the cockpit with electro-conducting compounds, applying radio absorption coats and reducing the number of protruding sensors. The service life of the aircraft is 6,000 hours flight hours; the life cycle is 30 years of operation. The assigned service life of vectored thrust engines is 4,000 hours.

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Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)

The JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is an autonomous, long-range, conventional, air-to-ground, precision standoff missile for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. JASSM is designed to destroy high-value, well-defended, fixed and relocatable targets. JASSM's significant standoff range keeps Air Force and Navy aircrews well out of danger from hostile air defense systems. The missile's mission effectiveness approaches single-missile target kill capability. With this superior performance and affordable price, JASSM offers the best value of any weapon in its class.

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Savi Technology Rolls Out New Generation Tracking Device Linking Sky- and Land-Based Wireless Systems to Monitor Supplies Anywhere, Anytime


Small, Compact Portable Tracking Unit Supports NATO Logistics in Afghanistan by Combining Sensors with GPS, RFID, SatCom, GSM and GPRS

ALEXANDRIA, Va, September 21st, 2010 -- Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] Savi Technology today announced the first-of-its-kind technology device that can switch from satellite or terrestrial wireless systems to continuously monitor the location and condition of shipments anywhere and at anytime. Called the Portable In-Transit Tracking Unit (PITU), the new-generation device about the size of a digital video recorder connects communications among Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices, GPS location and SatCom systems, global cellular networks and sensors that detect environmental and security changes.
Developed over the past year, the first PITU systems have been purchased and shipped to several NATO defense forces in support of the International Security Assistance Force, formed by the United Nations to help stabilize activities in Afghanistan. PITU was developed in response to customer requirements to automatically track the whereabouts and condition of both cargo containers and their contents, whether in range of land-based tracking systems or in more remote locations such as deserts or oceans where there is no tracking infrastructure.
“This complete and compact mobile system is the only three-way communication tracking solution today that combines so many wireless tracking and sensor-monitoring capabilities,” said David Stephens, chief executive officer of Savi Technology. “It can utilize a wide range of tracking technologies, acting as an RFID tag, a sensor device and a RFID reader, depending on the customer’s needs at any given time.”
“Organizations operating large and complex global supply chains are often responsible for highly sensitive shipments that demand the utmost vigilance,” Stephens added. “Now, customers can not only monitor these high-value shipments continuously from anywhere on the planet, but also benefit from three-way communication with the technologies that track them.”
Three-way communications enables PITU to capture location data from GPS and RFID-tagged supplies inside the container and transmit that information to either ground-based RFID or telecommunications networks or to Iridium satellite Short Burst Data systems. PITU leverages the best available system depending on the cargo’s location and customer needs.
The ability to provide three-way communications between wireless systems and the hardware devices ensures that accurate, real-time information provides “ground truth” on the status of in-transit shipments.
NATO has tested and validated the Portable In-Transit Tracking solution through various communications modes by monitoring container shipments throughout more than 10 European countries. The solution is tailored for NATO nations supporting coalition shipments where there is no cellular communications, such as through Pakistan, Afghanistan or for organizations supporting United Nations’ goodwill or disaster relief missions.
PITU is designed to improve the safety and security of high-value or sensitive shipments – such as medical supplies, hazardous materials and ammunition – by minimizing the high cost of correcting unplanned events such as delays and misroutes or critical system failures.
Developed along with Vari-Trac, a satellite communications technology provider, PITU beams real-time information to the Savi SmartChain™ software platform for managing assets, shipments and consignments.
About Savi Technology
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], Savi Technology is a leading provider of a new class of Smart Asset Management solutions and services for public sector and commercial supply chains worldwide. Savi SmartChain® enterprise-level software leverages low-power wireless sensor networks for real-time information to enhance balance sheets by optimizing the operational management, effectiveness, security, and profitable return of assets either in-transit or at rest. SmartChain turns data from all types of Automatic Identification and Data Capture technologies, including DASH7 Radio Frequency Identification, into actionable information that is valued from the physical edge of operations to the board room. For more information, visit www.savi.com.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 136,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2009 sales of $44.5 billion.
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First Production C-5M Super Galaxy Takes Flight

MARIETTA, Ga., September 21st, 2010 -- Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] first production C-5M Super Galaxy made its first flight here Sept. 19 sporting the new “Super Galaxy” tail flash and nose art. It is set to be delivered Sept. 30 and will arrive for duty at Dover Air Force Base, Del., in November.

First production C-5M Super Galaxy made its first flight. (Lockheed Martin Photo by Damien Guarnieri)

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