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iceteaplease 53M
753 posts
12/27/2007 3:48 pm
Another piece of the puzzle. Chew on this!

Seems that Iran is preparing to be attacked. I find it interesting because there are few countries with the weapons that these missiles are designed to defend against.

Incidentally, Russia has repeatedly denied rumors about this in past years. Well, why have they been lying?

What is Iran planning here? They finally managed to build a super computer as well, designed for targeting purposes? There are supposed to be embargos in place to prevent this! What happened?

With recent events in Pakistan, one might wonder how an unstable country will end up. Possible that Iran being a close neighbor might consider an offensive to gain control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. With so many in the country supporting radical Islam it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.

Pakistan is in deep trouble right now, Our war on terrorism could be dealt harsh blows if this thing gets out of hand. So who's is to say that Iran isn't pushing a few buttons in Pakistan?

Hmm, things to chew on! Reach out to those around you, share about Jesus before it's too late.


AP Report-

Russia is to supply Iran with new S-300 air defense systems, Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Wednesday, a sign of growing military cooperation between Moscow and Teheran.

"The S-300 air defense system will be delivered to Iran on the basis of a contract signed with Russia in the past," state television quoted Najjar as saying.

Najjar didn't say when or how many of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense systems would be shipped to Iran. The S-300s will reportedly be the first such shipment to the Persian country.

The S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system is capable of shooting down aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missile warheads at ranges of over 90 miles and at altitudes of about 90,000 feet. Russian military officials boast that its capabilities outstrip the US Patriot missile system.

Earlier this year, Russia delivered 29 Tor-M1 to Iran under a $700 million contract signed in December 2005.

Najjar said S-300 missile was one of the most sophisticated weapons in the world, with a longer range than the Tor-M1 surface-to-air missiles.

"While Tor-M1 missiles can hit targets at low altitude, S-300 missile have an extraordinary performance against targets at high altitude," Najjar said.

And the article about the computer...

Iran has successfully built a supercomputer, Channel 2 reported Tuesday evening.

While there is an international embargo on supplying the Islamic Republic with processor chips of the type required to build such a device, the Iranians have managed to get their hands on super-strength CPUs manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, the company currently tailing global giant Intel in the international market, the report said.

The assumption is that Iran managed to buy the AMD chips from a middleman in one of the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, perhaps the United Arab Emirates or Bahrain.

A system analyst interviewed by Channel 2 said a supercomputer could help Iran analyze information extremely quickly and use sophisticated encrypting software which requires high-processing power only available from such a machine.

The Iranian supercomputer is expected to make the job of intelligence communities worldwide much harder and the custom-written encryption algorithms might slow them down critically in crucial times. While the Iranian supercomputer is estimated to be far weaker than similar devices used by Western countries, the significance of Teheran's technological achievement is that it could significantly delay the task of retrieving intelligence on military actions such as trajectories or targets of Iranian missiles.

Iran previously owned encrypting software sold to it by Switzerland, but the US managed to hack into the Swiss software. Consequently, the regime decided to invest in a domestic encryption program.


Born Again Christians only need to chew, It's those left behind that have to swallow it.


GreenGal777
(Lisa H)
62F
1182 posts
12/27/2007 5:34 pm

Erik,

Thanks for the update my friend. Things definitely seem to be destabilizing in these areas more lately. Please keep searching out this info and passing it on. It's worthwhile,

blessings, Lisa


iceteaplease replies on 12/28/2007 11:02 am:
glad you find it useful, I find it fascinating

HImaintanence 51F

12/27/2007 8:18 pm

The World will cry "PEACE PEACE"

Destruction is around the corner! Lookup! Your Father is on HIS way!

A


iceteaplease replies on 12/28/2007 11:03 am:
Indeed they will and it's "their peace" that will ultimately bring their destruction.

Hisglory77
(Byron )
64M

12/27/2007 10:05 pm

I'm kinda wondering just what they mean by super computer? Many of the capibilities described in the preceeding article can be accomplished by Pentium II processers if the right software is used.

Self targeting missiles can be achieved with slightly modified 286 and DOS technology.

Encription, and decription can be done with a pair of high end 486 computers linked together in a good Linux system.

It doesn't take a lot of computer capibilities to do some pretty amazing things in military applications. In fact how much can be down with so little is outright scarey.

Isaiah 66:2b; But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.


iceteaplease replies on 12/28/2007 10:51 am:
Actually, these types of applications can't be done with basic processors. The processors we use for data encryption for military purposes, have been for many years, Kray computers that had hundreds of information banks. They have since been upgraded to much smaller packages but the actual amount of data to be processed still requires huge processors to retrieve, analyze, store and or encrypt. A pentium 2 processor could barely handle a single application of the thousands required to accomplish the task at hand.

Hope that helps clear things up for you. The amount of file servers, processors and switches to run a small network for a school district is daunting in at it's self, let alone an entire military network for a country. It requires racks and racks of equipment. The last time I went to my brothers office, (Network engineer for the local district) we had to shut down the network for a climate control problem, it took 20 minutes to simply push the "off" button on all of the machines. And this is not even comparable to the technology we are speaking of in the article.

iceteaplease 53M
1191 posts
12/28/2007 10:54 am

I would also like to add, that as safe as you may think your computer is at home with the encryption it uses, well lets just say a good hacker could probably get into it within 2 minutes or less. You'll just have to take my word on that one. It would be easier than stealing your car!

Born Again Christians only need to chew, It's those left behind that have to swallow it.