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Source:- If India And Pakistan Go To War, Israeli Weapons Could Be Decisive As India and Pakistan contemplate their next moves amid rising tensions, airstrikes and the downing of an Indian warplane, Israeli weapons could play a decisive role in a future war. India has become a key defense partner for Israel in recent years with Israeli technology playing a major role in India’s modernization programs for its large armed forces. India-Israel trade has been booming in recent years, reaching $6b. in 2012-2013. A variety of major Israeli defense companies have sought a place in the Indian market. These include Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Military Industries and Elbit. This legacy of defense purchases has increased in the last decades. In 2003, IMI signed a $20m. deal to supply tank shells to India. New Delhi also purchased Tavor rifles. Total arms sales from 2001 to 2006 were $15b. according to UPI. By 2017, India represented up to 49% of Israel’

Source:- Pakistan Used Missile Meant For Terrorists Against India, Says IAF Three service representatives of the nation gathered at the heart of Delhi today to spell out the armed forces’ position on the escalation of tension with Pakistan and yesterday’s dogfight with its Air Force. Pakistan, they said, had escalated matters by targetting military installations in response to the Indian Air Force strike on a terror camp. The officers had come with evidence — wreckage of missiles the Pakistani F-16s had used against the IAF jets that confronted them. The jagged, bent piece of metal, they said, was the casing of a missile that had gone wide and fell in the east of Rajouri. The stamp on it showed it to be an AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile). These are missiles Pakistan had obtained from the US, on condition that they would be used against terrorists, sources said. Instead, the missiles were used against Indian Air Force jets — one had hit the MiG 21 Bison of Wing Com

Source:- The curious case of three parachutes after aerial-combat over PoK sky Shortly after the images of a downed Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16 fighter, surfaced online, a video of an eyewitness account from the area over which the dogfight with Indian MIG-21 Bison occurred was accessed by  Times Now . A locale who saw the aerial-combat between the fighter jets of the two countries said there were three parachutes in the sky and jets suffered damage. A MIG-21 Bison has the capacity to carry just one – leading analysts to believe that the other two parachutes belonged to the pilots of the F-16 on which IAF braveheart Abhinandan Varthaman locked his missiles before crash-landing in PoK. “I was standing on the terrace where I had come for a walk. I heard the sound of firing. Three pilots ejected from the aircrafts. There were three parachutes. One was in the air, while other two pilots other 2 landed around here,” the eye witness told a local news channel. The men who touched had pi

US President Donald Trump urged North Korea's Kim Jong Un to go "all in" during their high-stakes nuclear negotiations but talks floundered amid differences over sanctions and the definition of "denuclearisation", a senior State Department official said Friday. The two leaders travelled huge distances to Hanoi for a second summit over dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programme but the two-day meeting broke down suddenly with the two sides failing to agree on a joint statement as scheduled. A senior administration official, who requested anonymity, said the North Koreans wanted "many, many billions of dollars in sanctions relief" but were "unwilling to impose a complete freeze on their weapons of mass destruction programmes". Lifting the sanctions "would in effect put us in a position of subsidising the ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction in North Korea," the official added. "The weapons themselves need to b

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S and T) launched two miniature cube-shaped satellites (CubeSats) into space on December 3, 2018, via the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Named Yukon and Kodiak, the CubeSats, which are approximately the size of a shoebox, neatly squeezed into a 20-ft. payload stack with 62 other small satellites (SmallSats), and began orbiting our planet. DHS S and T's Polar Scout program began a little more than two years ago as an effort to identify potential technology bridges for the current aging space-based SAR infrastructure, Cosmicheskaya Systema Poiska Aariynyich Sudov SAR Satellite-Aided Tracking (COSPAS-SARSAT), with its next-generation successor, the Medium-Earth Orbit SAR (MEOSAR) system. Mariners have relied on COSPAS-SARSAT for SAR since 1982. The system has aided more than 41,000 rescue operations around the world. With MEOSAR expected to complete no earlier than the mid-2020's, and COSPAS-SARSAT's inc

A string of violent escalations have pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict, sparking global alarm and calls for restraint between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Here is an explanation of the events so far, and the possible next steps: - What triggered the crisis? - On February 14, 40 paramilitaries were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, igniting outrage. It was the deadliest militant attack there in three decades, and was claimed by Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). Kashmir has been a major flashpoint since the end of British rule in the subcontinent in 1947. A ceasefire line divides it between India and Pakistan, but both claim the Himalayan region in its entirety. Kashmir has seen hostilities during three India-Pakistan wars, as well as a limited conflict in 1999. India has 500,000 troops stationed in the region to counter an armed insurgency by separatists seeking either independence or a merger with Pakistan. -

The US Navy’s version of the F-35 stealth fighter jet is “ready for combat,” officials said Thursday, marking another milestone in the development of the most expensive weapons program ever. “The F-35C is ready for operations, ready for combat and ready to win,” Vice Admiral DeWolfe Miller, who commands Naval Air Forces, said in a statement. “We are adding an incredible weapon system into the arsenal of our Carrier Strike Groups that significantly enhances the capability of the joint force.” The F-35 “C” variant has been developed for the Navy and is capable of taking off and landing from an aircraft carrier. Its wingtips can fold up to create more room on the huge ships. In August 2017, the Air Force announced initial operational capability for their version, the F-35A. The F-35B, used by the Marine Corps, is capable of short take-offs and vertical landings, and flew its first combat missions last year over Afghanistan. Launched in the early 1990s, the F-35 program is consider

MARINE CORPS TRAINING AREA BELLOWS, Hawaii: In today’s interconnected global arena, deployment readiness is contingent on Soldiers’ ability to work in partnership with other joint services and allied nations. In the summer of 2018, the Soldiers of 561st Engineer Construction Company (ECC), 84th Engineer Battalion, 130th Engineer Brigade trained alongside 1st Naval Construction Regiment (NCR) Seabees at Bellows Air Force Base during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2018. Founded in 1971, RIMPAC is the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, hosted every two years on and around the Hawaiian Islands. RIMPAC 2018 included participation from 25 nations, 56 ships, 5 submarines, approximately 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel. The 561st ECC “Warriors” put their diverse engineering skillset to the test during RIMPAC 2018, exercising their adaptability through multi-faceted construction missions. At the peak of the exercise, the Warriors and Seabees were conducting four simultane

A joint session of Parliament was held on Thursday to discuss rising tension with India in the wake of the Pulwama attack and subsequent airstrikes by both countries. Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was the first to speak, thanked the opposition for standing by the government “at a time when Pakistan is facing an external threat”. Talking about the ongoing tensions between Pakistan and India, the prime minister said that despite his government’s multiple overtures of peace, the response from New Delhi had not been encouraging. “We realised that it was because of upcoming elections in India,” he said and added that the government decided to wait until the polls in India were over before making another offer for talks. However, he disclosed, he had “feared they (India) would do something”. He told the Parliament that after an Indian aircraft violated Pakistan’s airspace in the wee hours of Tuesday, he had a meeting with Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa where it was decided that Pakis

  🇵🇳 Bounty Post , the postal service of Pitcairn , issued an extremely attractive set of 4 stamps on 27 February 2019 on the subject of Paintings of The Bounty . The issue was designed by Denise Durkin and lithographed by Southern Colour Print. Rating:- *****.   🇧🇩  The postal service of Bangladesh issued a single stamp towards the end of 2018, I suspect it was on 12 December, to commemorate Digital Bangladesh Day  and 10 years of 'Digital Bangladesh'. Rating:- **.   🇲🇾 I do not recall so far recording 2 miniature sheets released by Pos Malaysia in connection with 2 philatelic exhibitions it was involved with. Firstly the Panfila Balipex 2018/FourNations Baliphex 2018 exhibition (3 to 8 August 2018) was commemorated by an additional inscription being applied to the previously issued Sarawak River miniature sheet and then the Thailand 2018 World Stamp Exhibition (28 November to 3 December 2018) was commemorated by the previously issued Electric Train Servic

The Städel Museum 2/13–5/26/2019   Titian (c. 1488/90–1576) , Madonna and Child, St Catherine and a Shepherd (the “Madonna of the Rabbit”), c. 1530. Oil on canvas, 71 x 87 cm. Paris , Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures ©bpk / RMN - Grand Palais / Michèle Bellot. The Städel Museum is devoting a major special exhibition to one of the most momentous chapters in the history of European art: Venetian painting of the Renaissance. Entitled “Titian and the Renaissance in Venice”, the show unites more than a hundred masterpieces – In the early sixteenth century, artists of the “City of Water” developed an independent strain of the Renaissance relying on purely painterly means and the impact of light and colour. One of their most important exponents was Titian (ca. 1488/90–1576), who would hold the key position in the Venetian art scene all his life.  The Frankfurt show assembles more than twenty examples by Titian alone – and thus the most extensive select

Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with ‘Year of Rembrandt’. The year-long celebration opens with ‘All the Rembrandts’ ( 15 February to 10 June) , in which the Rijksmuseum will present for the first time an exhibition of all 22 paintings, 60 drawings and more than 300 best examples of Rembrandt’s prints in its collection As well as holding the world’s largest collection of Rembrandt paintings – including The Night Watch ,   the portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, and The Jewish Bride – the Rijksmuseum collection offers the world’s most comprehensive and representative overview of Rembrandt’s painting oeuvre. Given the extreme rarity that many of these delicate drawings and prints go on display, All the Rembrandts offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to glean an unparalleled perspective on Rembrandt the artist, the human, the storyteller, the innovator. The Rembrandt collection in the Rijksmuseum   Rembrandt van Rij

In a Cold War wet dream that has at once stunned and captured the imagination of international security watchers across the world, the Indian Air Force today declared that a MiG-21 Bison fighter managed to shoot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16D on Wednesday morning over the restive Line of Control that separates Jammu & Kashmir from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The MiG-21, from the Indian Air Force’s 51 Squadron ‘Sword Arms’ is said to have conducted the kill using a Russian Vympel R-73 close combat missile. The Indian Air Force today, as part of an effort to conclusively prove that it was a group of F-16 that led the sweep, produced evidence of an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile fired from the F-16, that likely brought down the MiG-21. The IAF also said it had captured electronic signatures of the aggressing aircraft, concluding that it was an F-16. While the Bison’s pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was captured in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, two Pakistani pilots who punched out o