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Első hallásra rémisztőnek tűnhet, hogy szövetségre lépett a világ két legerősebb iszlamista szélsőséges csoportja, az afrikai Boko Haram és a közel-keleti Iszlám Állam. Azonban jelenleg mindkét szervezet szorongatott helyzetben van az ellenük indult kiterjedt hadműveletek miatt, és a köztük lévő jelentős földrajzi távolság is kétségessé teszi, hogy valóban komoly gyakorlati következményei lehetnek a frigynek - írja az AP hírügynökség.

Heti szubjektív tízes listánkba összegyűjtöttük azokat az országokat, ahova a közeljövőben nem érdemes vakációt szervezni. Listánk az IntelCenter kutatásán alapul, a szervezet kutatói egyebek között a terroristák, a lázadók tevékenységét, illetve a halálozási arányokat vizsgálva állítják össze a világ legveszélyesebb országainak listáját.

Március negyedikén a Cato Institute rendezésében zajlott le Washingtonban „A NATO jövője és a transzatlanti biztonságpolitikai rendszer” című előadás, melyen elsősorban az ukrajnai háború, a NATO európai tagállamainak égetővé váló problémái, illetve az amerikai biztonságpolitika Ázsia felé fordulása határozta meg az elhangzottakat.

Nem ritka, hogy gyerekeket is beszerveznek a terrorszervezetek, a hat-hét éves gyerekek alkalmazása több szempontból is kifizetődő a terroristáknak, akik előszeretettel toboroznak háború sújtotta területen − tudtuk meg dr. Kis-Benedek József nyugállományú ezredestől, a Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem oktatójától.

Európa 9/11 címmel rendezett konferenciát a dzsihádizmus európai megjelenéséről és következményeiről a Biztonságpolitikai és Honvédelmi Kutatások Központja február 18-án.

A l'occasion du « International Rromani Resistance Day », événement européen contre le racisme anti-rrom et pour l'émancipation populaire, La voix des Rroms présente la Fête de l'Insurrection Gitane, les 16 et 17 mai 2015, sur le parvis de la Basilique de Saint-Denis (93), du samedi 19h au dimanche 19h.
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A késői Csing-dinasztia és a Kínai Köztársaság korából származó fotógyűjteményt mutat be a pekingi Palotamúzeum, közismertebb nevén a Tiltott Város. Ez az első ilyen jellegű archív fényképkiállítás az új Kína, vagyis a Kínai Népköztársaság 1949. évi kikiáltása óta.

A Facebook ukrán felhasználói megsértődtek, amiért keményen moderálják megosztásaikat, ezért a közösségi oldal alapítójához fordultak – írja a Vesztyi.

According to some sources, the evasive MH-X may have taken part in the raid that killed Islamic State member Abu Sayyaf.

In the night between May 15 and 16, U.S. Special Operations forces killed ISIS high level operative Abu Sayyaf, in a daring raid that took place in eastern Syria.

Little is known about the raid.

According to the CNN, the operation was conducted by U.S. Army’s Delta Force, which was carried to a residential building in Deir Ezzor, to the southeasth of Raqqa, by Army Blackhawk helicopters and Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

It’s pretty obvious many other assets were actually involved in the raid, including support assets providing electronic support to the intruding choppers and drones, as happened during Operation Neptune’s Spear, for the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

The presence of some Air Force Special Operations Command Ospreys during a raid against ISIS is not a first.

U.S. Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft probably based in Kuwait have already conducted missions in Syria and Iraq: on Jul. 3, 2014, some V-22 aircraft were used to carry Delta Force commandos to a campsite in eastern Syria where ISIS militants were believed to hold American and other hostages (that had been moved by the time the commandos attacked the site).

On Aug. 13, 2014, V-22s deployed military advisers, Marines and Special Forces on Mount Sinjar to coordinate the evacuation of Yazidi refugees.

What could really be a “first” is the possible involvement of the Stealth Black Hawk helicopter exposed by the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, back in 2011.

For the moment it’s just a hypothesis, but Homeland Security suggests that the Delta Force team were transported deep into ISIS-held territory “via presumably stealth equipped Black Hawk helicopters” of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) “Night Stalkers”.

The U.S. Army special ops force provides support for both general purpose and special operations forces. They fly MH-47G Chinooks, MH-60L/K/DAP Black Hawks, A/MH-6M Little Birds, MH-X Silent Hawks (the latter is an unconfirmed designation for the Stealth Black Hawk), maybe stealthy Little Birds and stealthy Chinooks, as well as MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones.

160th SOAR’s Black Hawk helicopters presence in the region was first unveiled after an unspecified variant belonging to the U.S. Army took part in an unsuccessful raid to free captured American journalist James Foley and other captives from ISIS in eastern Syria in August 2014.

Even though American aircraft have already demonstrated their ability to operate completely undisturbed well inside the Syrian airspace, we can’t rule out the possibility that the Pentagon, as done in 2011 when the time to kill Bin Laden arrived, considered the importance of the most recent raid against the senior ISIS leader and the failure of at least a couple previous raids, decided to commit the most advanced and secret Black Hawk helicopter to the delicate mission against Abu Sayyaf: the stealth variant.

 

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A nagyobb nyugati média-vállalatok váratlanul Ukrajna elnöke, Petro Porosenko elleni kampányba kezdtek – írja a Rusvesna. Az Egyesült Államok és az Európai Unió vezető médiaszolgáltatói szinte egyszerre publikáltak az ukrán elnököt élesen kritizáló cikkeket túlzott agresszióval és korrupcióval vádolva őt. A „legjobb barátja” John McCain még a Szaakasvili által szervezett Nemzetközi Reformtanácsadó Testület tagsági ajánlatától is visszalépett.

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“Pooling and Sharing” may soon apply to the Aerial Refueling capability.

As we reported it at the end of last year, Poland, the Netherlands and Norway are willing to acquire shared aerial refueling capabilities. According to the information obtained by Polish media outlet defence24.pl, Poland’s share in the program is 22 percent, proportional to the flight hours allocated to the Polish Air Force.

In his interview for defence24, Jacek Sońta, spokesperson for the Polish Ministry of Defense stated that the request for proposal is about to be sent to the contractor – the Airbus company, which will provide the Airbus A330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) aircraft – by the OCCAR agency (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière D’armement – Organization for joint cooperation within the field of armament), part of EDA (European Defense Agency), on behalf of the program member states.

Analysts highlighted that the tanker fleet spending is not contained within the Polish MoD’s “Technical Modernization Plan,” however, the Polish F-16 fighter jets are already using the refueling services provided to them by RNlAF (Royal Netherlands Air Force) and it is quite likely that the budget allocated to the AAR (air-to-air refueling) missions will be shifted to the program led by the EDA.

According to the report published by Aviation Week, ultimately up to four A330 MRTTs are going to be used for carrying out the refueling tasks. The basic plan assumes that the tankers are to reach the operational capabilities by 2019, and the program itself is to begin in mid-2020. The relevant agreement is scheduled to be signed next year, according to the information provided by the Polish MoD.

What is more, Aviation Week sheds some light on the operational details pertaining the joint aerial refueling initiative: the fleet of tankers is going to be based at the Eindhoven Air Base, even though the program assumes that forward operating locations will be established within the territories of the program participants. Airbus is going to provide the A330 tankers with both the flying boom, as well as the hose-and-drogue refueling systems.

One of the air bases in Poland that is probably going to host the tankers is Powidz AB, home for the Polish Air Force’s fleet of the Hercules transport aircraft, and equipped with a sufficiently long runway. So far it has accommodated large aircraft such as the E-4B, the AWACS, and more recently – the USAF A-10 deployment, which was a part of the Theater Security Package deployed to Europe, in the light of the Ukrainian Crisis.

Aviation Week also duly notes that the initiative is going to constitute a replacement for the Dutch KC-10 tankers, while in case of Norway it is going to seriously bolster the F-35 program. In case of Norway and Poland, utilizing the tanker would be a novelty. The whole program stems from the fact that, so far, the European air forces were relying on the US air refueling assets during training as well as real operations (like in Libya or the Balkans). Thus, a new, independent tanker program would provide the Europeans with a higher degree of independence.

The formal procedures related to the multinational use of the aerial-refueling capabilities are yet to be created.

Notably, the Airbus’s aircraft could also be used for multi-role transport operations and support several different duties, including the deployments of land forces abroad.

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