Australia jadi hibahkan 4 hercules Untuk Indonesia

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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Pemerintah
Australia positif menghibahkan empat unit
pesawat C-130 Hercules untuk Indonesia
setelah sempat tertunda prosesnya pada
2011.
"Kemungkinan kedua tim teknis dari masing-masing negara
akan bertemu pada pertengahan Januari ini," kata Kepala
Pusat Komunikasi Publik Kementerian Pertahanan Hartind
Asrin ketika dikonfirmasi ANTARA di Jakarta, Selasa.
Hartind Asrin mengatakan, dalam pertemuan itu kedua tim
akan membicarakan teknis hibah yang akan dilakukan
setelah sempat tertunda pada 2011.
Selain mengadakan pertemuan di Jakarta, akan dilakukan
pula pertemuan di Australia untuk melihat langsung empat
unit pesawat Hercules yang akan dihibahkan tersebut, lanjut
Hartind.
Kepastian hibah empat unit pesawat Hercules dari Australia
itu telah mendapat persetujuan dari Amerika Serikat sebagai
produsen pesawat angkut berat Hercules.
"Namun teknisnya harus dibicarakan lebih lanjut antartim
kedua negara. Dan itu akan segera dilakukan mulai
pertengahan Januari ini," kata Hartind.
Sementara itu, Asisten Perencanaan Kepala Staf Angkatan
Udara Marsekal Muda TNI Rodi Suprasodjo mengatakan
pesawat Hercules yang dibutuhkan TNI AU saat ini sebanyak
30 unit. Namun, TNI AU hanya memiliki 21 pesawat Hercules,
sehingga masih kurang sembilan pesawat.
"Kekurangan pesawat Hercules itu akan dipenuhi dari hibah
dan membeli. Ke-30 pesawat Hercules akan digunakan
untuk pesawat tanki sebanyak dua unit, pesawat VIP dua
unit, dan pesawat operasional dua batalyon sebanyak 26
unit," kata Marsekal Muda Rodi.
Rodi menambahkan,"Tipe yang akan dihibahkan adalah tipe
H, diremajakan kembali, dan akan digunakan TNI Angkatan
Udara untuk menggantikan tipe B yang sudah sangat tua,".

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Iran-US brinkmanship over oil strait of Hormuz worsens

A showdown between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers worsened on Thursday with warships from each side giving weight to an increasingly bellicose exchange of words.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards rejected a warning that the US military would “not tolerate” such a closure, saying they would act decisively “to protect our vital interests.”
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Thursday that Iran had exhibited “irrational behavior” by threatening to close the strait.
“One can only guess that the international sanctions are beginning to feel the pinch, and that the ratcheting up of pressure, particularly on their oil sector, is pinching in a way that is causing them to lash out.”
The tough language came as two US warships entered a zone where the Iranian navy’s ships and aircraft were in the middle of 10 days of war games designed as a show of military might.
But a US navy spokeswoman said later that the aircraft carrier USS John C.
Stennis and the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay had transited without incident on Tuesday, in pre-planned, routine operation.
“Our interaction with the regular Iranian Navy continues to be within the standards of maritime practice, well-known, routine and professional,” Fifth Fleet spokeswoman Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich said on Thursday.
The transit area was in waters east of the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point at the entrance to the Gulf through which more than a third of the world’s tanker-borne oil passes.
Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi warned this week that “not a drop of oil will pass through the Strait of Hormuz” if the West followed through with planned additional sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
The navy commander, Admiral Habibollah Sayari, backed that up by saying it would be “really easy” to close the strait.
A US Defence Department spokesman riposted on Wednesday that “interference with the transit of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz will not be tolerated.”
But Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, told Fars news agency on Thursday that “our response to threats is threats.”
We have no doubt about our being able to carry out defensive strategies to protect our vital interests – we will act more decisively than ever,” he was quoted as saying.
“The Americans are not qualified to give us permission” to carry out military strategy, he said.
Admiral Sayari said the US aircraft carrier was monitored by Iranian forces as it passed from the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, state television reported.
It broadcast footage of an aircraft carrier being shadowed by an Iranian plane.
An Iranian navy spokesman, Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi, told the official IRNA news agency the US carrier went “inside the manoeuvre zone” where Iranian ships were conducting their exercises.
He added that the Iranian navy was “prepared, in accordance with international law, to confront offenders who do not respect our security perimeters during the manoeuvres.”
US officials had said on Wednesday that the Stennis and its carrier strike group were moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said this was “a pre-planned, routine transit” to the Arabian Sea to provide air power for the war in Afghanistan.
The United States maintains a navy presence in the Gulf in large part to ensure oil traffic there is unhindered. Its Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain.
Iran, which is already subject to several rounds of sanctions over its nuclear program, has repeatedly said it could target the Strait of Hormuz if attacked or its economy is strangled.
Such a move could cause havoc on world oil markets, disrupting the fragile global economy, although analysts say the Islamic republic is unlikely to take such drastic steps as it relies on the route for its own oil exports.
Iran’s naval manoeuvres included the laying of mines and the use of aerial drones, according to Iranian media. Missiles and torpedoes were to be test-fired in the coming days.
Earlier this month, Iranian officials said a Revolutionary Guards cyber-warfare unit had hacked the controls of a US bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance drone and brought it down safely.
Analysts and oil market traders are watching the developing situation in and around the Strait of Hormuz carefully, fearing that a spark could ignite open confrontation between the long-time foes.
The United States had proposed a military hotline between Tehran and Washington to defuse any “miscalculations” between their navies, but Iran in September rejected that offer.

 

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Jet Tempur Iran Jepret Kapal Induk AS

Kamis, 2011 Desember 29 11:58

 

Sebuah kapal induk milik Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat diidentifikasi di sekitar zona berlangsungnya manuver militer Iran, kata juru bicara manuver Velayat-90 pada hari Kamis (29/12).

Laksamana Mahmoud Mousavi mengatakan, kapal induk AS diidentifikasi oleh pesawat tempur Iran yang melakukan patroli di kawasan latihan angkatan laut. Ditambahkannya, pesawat tempur Iran telah mengambil gambar dan video armada AS itu.

"Ini menunjukkan bahwa Angkatan Laut Iran terus memantau gerakan dari semua kekuatan trans-regional di kawasan dan mengawasi kegiatan mereka," jelasnya. Menurut Mousavi, memantau gerakan dan mengevaluasi perubahan formasi pasukan asing di kawasan sangat penting bagi Iran.  

Manuver Velayat-90 dimulai pada 24 Desember dan akan berakhir pada 3 Januari 2012.

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F-15 Sale to Saudi Arabia Part of Broader Effort

The recently announced $29.4 billion sale of F-15SA fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia is just one part of a broader U.S.-Saudi military sales and defense cooperation effort that’s central to regional security, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.
U.S. officials announced an agreement Dec. 29 to sell 84 new F-15 fighter jets and upgrades for 70 existing aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Little said the same represents less than half of the $60.5 billion in U.S. sales of aviation capabilities agreed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In addition to the Royal Saudi Air Force, this broader program includes aviation capabilities for the Saudi Arabian National Guard, Royal Saudi Land Forces and Saudi Royal Guard, he said.
“More broadly, the U.S.-Saudi military-to-military alliance is a central feature of regional security,” he said.
Little noted the U.S. Military Training Mission in Saudi Arabia, which was established in 1953 and remains a cornerstone of the U.S.-Saudi military-to-military relationship. U.S. and Saudi defense departments cooperate regularly at the highest levels, through established bilateral planning forums like the Strategic Joint Planning Commission and the Military Joint Planning Commission, he said.
In addition, the Royal Saudi Air Force trains with the U.S. Air Force in rigorous exercises that improve military cooperation and interoperability, and that facilitate the exchange of ideas, Little said. Among them is Red Flag, the U.S. Air Force's premier air-to-air combat training exercise, conducted in Nevada. Red Flag gives pilots the experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties from within the safety of a training environment.
In announcing the F-15 sales agreement Dec. 29, James N. Miller, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, and Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, emphasized the close military-to-military ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
“The United States is firmly committed to the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as we have been for nearly seven decades, and … more broadly, the United States and Saudi Arabia have a strong mutual interest in the security and stability of the Gulf,” Miller said.
The F-15s Saudi Arabia will receive under the agreement “will have the latest generation of computing power, radar technology, infrared sensors and electronic warfare systems,” he added.
“This agreement reinforces the strong and enduring relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” Shapiro said. “It demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a strong Saudi defense capability as a key component to regional security.”
State and DOD have worked to conclude the agreement since June 2010, Shapiro added.
The White House released a statement Dec. 29 detailing the full Foreign Military Sales program agreement, which also will provide munitions, spare parts, training, maintenance and logistics support for the F-15s to the Royal Saudi Air Force.

 

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Perang Iran, Kehancuran Israel dan Ekonomi Dunia

Senin, 2012 Januari 02 13:21

 

Dua mantan analis CIA menyarankan Presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Obama untuk segera mengakhiri propaganda perang terhadap Iran, karena hal itu akan mengarah pada kehancuran Israel dan ekonomi dunia.

Ray McGovern dan Elizabeth Murray menulis pada situs consortiumnews.com bahwa pernyataan berulang Obama untuk mempertimbangkan semua opsi tentang Iran, menunjukkan Presiden AS tidak sepenuhnya menyadari konsekuensi dari konfrontasi militer dengan Iran.

Mereka mengatakan perang dengan Iran tidak akan menguntungkan siapapun kecuali para pedagang senjata. Ditambahkannya, "Jika tim penasihat Anda [Obama] telah meyakinkan Anda bahwa permusuhan dengan Iran akan membawa manfaat bagi Israel, mereka jelas-jelas sangat keliru."

Perang dengan Iran kemungkinan akan membawa kehancuran Israel dalam jangka panjang, bahkan tidak perlu menyebutkan konsekuensi buruk bagi perekonomian dunia, yang harus Anda [Obama] sadari, jelas mereka.

Washingtondan Tel Aviv berulang kali mengancam Tehran dengan opsi serangan militer, didasarkan pada dugaan bahwa program nuklir Iran memiliki aspek militer rahasia.

Pekan lalu, Kepala Staf Gabungan Militer AS Jenderal Martin Dempsey mengatakan, militer Amerika siap untuk melancarkan serangan ke Iran, jika diperlukan.

Sementara para pejabat Israel juga meningkatkan retorika perang mereka terhadap Iran. Pada 21 November lalu, Menteri Peperangan Israel Ehud Barak memperingatkan bahwa telah tiba waktunya untuk menangani Iran.

Para pejabat Tehran berjanji untuk memberikan respon menghancurkan atas setiap serangan militer terhadap negara itu, memperingatkan bahwa setiap tindakan semacam itu bisa mengakibatkan perang yang akan menyebar di luar Timur Tengah.

McGovern dan Murray menggambarkan klaim tentang pengalihan program nuklir Tehran ke kegiatan militer adalah dalih untuk bisa mengancam Iran dengan serangan. Menurut mereka, masalah itu adalah sesuatu yang kontroversial, tapi bohong dan sedang menyebar dengan cepat.

Mantan analis CIA itu mendesak Obama untuk bersikap jujur kepada rakyat Amerika dan mempublikasikan data terbaru tentang program nuklir Iran yang dikumpulkan oleh National Intelligence Estimate.

"Anda [Obama] tahu bahwa upaya luas badan-badan intelijen AS untuk menemukan bukti program senjata nuklir Iran, sama sekali tidak membuahkan hasil," tegas mereka.

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Inilah Penjelasan Iran Tentang Selat Hormuz

Senin, 2012 Januari 02 15:34

 

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Seorang komandan senior militer Iran mengatakan, Republik Islam tidak berniat mengganggu pelayaran bebas maritim melalui Selat Hormuz dan Teluk Persia.

Irantidak akan mengabaikan hak teritorial di Selat Hormuz dan tidak berniat untuk menghalangi pelayaran maritim di daerah tersebut, tegas Wakil Komandan Angkatan Laut Iran Laksamana Mahmoud Mousavi.

"Isu-isu mengenai penggunaan Selat Hormuz adalah urusan negara-negara di pesisir kawasan itu. Sebagai negara yang memiliki daerah pesisir yang luas di sepanjang rute strategis tersebut, Iran menaruh perhatian khusus terhadap kawasan itu," tambahnya.

Namun, Mousavi memperingatkan bahwa setiap tindakan yang merugikan kepentingan Republik Islam di daerah itu, tentu akan mengarah pada aksi balasan oleh Iran.

"Kami berusaha untuk membangun keamanan yang berkelanjutan di Selat Hormuz. Transportasi maritim, termasuk aliran bebas sumber energi atau kapal dagang, telah berlangsung bagi semua negara di kawasan dengan tanpa hambatan," jelasnya.
Sebelumnya, Tehran memperingatkan bahwa jika Barat memaksakan embargo atas sektor minyak Iran, maka mereka berhak untuk meresponnya dengan mencekik aliran minyak melalui Selat Hormuz, dengan alasan bahwa aliran bebas minyak harus berlaku untuk semua negara atau tidak untuk siapapun.

Penutupan rute strategis itu mungkin akan memiliki konsekuensi serius bagi perekonomian dunia, karena akan sangat mengurangi pasokan minyak mentah dan gas alam cair.

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Serang Iran Sama dengan Mengusik Rusia dan Cina

Senin, 2012 Januari 02 13:39

 

Seorang analis politik mengatakan Rusia dan Cina mempertimbangkan aksi militer Amerika Serikat terhadap Iran sebagai serangan atas perbatasan dan ancaman bagi keamanan nasional mereka.

"AS berasumsi bahwa Rusia atau Cina tidak akan merespon secara militer, tapi Washington pernah melakukan kesalahan seperti itu sebelumnya," tulis Shamus Cooke di website Global Research.

Cooke menjelaskan bahwa ketika mantan Presiden AS George W. Bush memberikan lampu hijau kepada Presiden Georgia Mikheil Saakahvili untuk menyerang Ossetia Selatan pada 2008, Rusia langsung memberi respon militer dan menghancurkan invasi Georgia. Hal ini membuat semua terkejut.

"Menyerang Suriah atau Iran akan membuka pintu untuk perang yang lebih luas pada tingkat regional atau bahkan internasional," tegas Cooke.

Bulan lalu, Mayor Jenderal Zhang Zhaozhong, profesor dari Universitas Pertahanan Nasional Cina, mengatakan Cina tidak akan ragu untuk melindungi Republik Islam dari serangan militer, bahkan jika itu berarti awal dari Perang Dunia Ketiga.

Juga pekan lalu, Duta Besar Rusia untuk PBB Vitaly Churkin mengkritik keras setiap rencana menyerang Iran, menggambarkan langkah itu sebagai skenario yang sangat berbahaya dan dapat menyebabkan bencana regional.

"Jika AS ingin terlibat secara militer dengan Suriah dan Iran, maka masyarakat kelas menengah Amerika perlu turun ke jalan-jalan dalam jumlah besar untuk mencegah serangan seperti itu," tutup Cooke.

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Russia to modernize 60 MiG-31 interceptors by 2020

MiG-31 Foxhound
© RIA Novosti. Vitaliy Ankov

04:07 02/01/2012

MOSCOW, January 2 (RIA Novosti)

The Russian Air Force will receive over 60 modernized MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor aircraft by 2020, the Defense Ministry said. A modernization contract was signed by the ministry and Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation in December last year.
“We are planning to upgrade more than 60 MiG-31 interceptors to the MiG-31BM version by 2020,” Air Force spokesman Vladimir Drik said last week.
Relatively few MiG-31s have been modernized to the MiG-31BM version since the heavy interceptor entered service with the Russian Air Force in 1982.
The modernized version is fitted with upgraded avionics and digital data links, a new multimode radar, color multi-function cockpit displays, and a more powerful weapons-control system. It can detect airborne targets at the range of 320 kilometers (200 miles) and simultaneously track up to 10 targets.
The MiG-31BM can carry new air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles such as the AS-17 Krypton anti-radar missile.
MiG-31 interceptors are an integral part of a comprehensive aerospace defense network being created in Russia to thwart any potential airborne threats, including ballistic and cruise missiles.

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