Related to Joe Biden's visit to Northern Ireland, and the world ignorance of what is happening there all the time, here is the Police Security Report from Mars 2023. Incredibly the IRA news disappeared from all Media.

 

https://www.psni.police.uk/sites/default/files/2022-09/Security%20Situation%20Statistics%20to%20March%202022v2.pdf

Angola's gov send to Ukraine helping Russia, 21.500 soldiers, and 500 light automatic rifles, that, were given by the portuguese 😀

Portugal Intel (TAP scandal)

 

TAP paid US$444 million for new aircraft

By Essential Business

  Posted 13 Fevereiro, 2023 

 In Aviation, News, TAP

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Former majority shareholder in Portuguese airline TAP, David Neeleman may have made €44 million in profit in the purchase and sale contract of his stake in the national carrier.

The US-Brazilian airline mogul bought a majority shareholding from the Portuguese State in the airline in 2015, yet sold his TAP shareholdings in 2016 and 2020 back to the Portuguese State.
According to CNN and Correio de Manhã, David Neeleman may have effectively bought his shareholding in TAP using tax payers’ money, and then sold the airline back to the government and made a profit.
A first contract with Airbus was for just a lease-purchase of 12 new aircraft. Neeleman then closed a deal with Airbus for 53 new aircraft for €211 million. He then, it is alleged, used a complicated contract manoeuvre to use that €211 million to buy his controlling share in TAP, later selling his share in the airline and netting a €44 million profit without it costing him practically anything.
Under the terms of the contract, in case of non-fulfilment, TAP would have to pay Airbus €211 million if it ended up by buying less than the 53 aircraft foreseen. So what is known here? According to Expresso, before buying his controlling share in TAP, David Neeleman asked Airbus to change the contract because he thought the airline should exchange the 12 A350 for 53 of manufacturer’s latest NEO planes.
It is suspected that the cost of leasing the new planes from Airbus was way above the amounts paid by rivals and this is what led the former minster of Infrastructures, Pedro Nuno Santos to send the dossier of his suspicions with a complaint to Portugal’s Public Ministry which has now opened an investigation.
How did David Neeleman do it? This is not clear, but police investigators at Portugal’s criminal investigation department DCIAP are investigating whether by changing order contracts implying the purchase of far more Airbus aircraft than had been initially envisioned, TAP may have paid €320 million over the odds in a €1.6Bn deal that was renegotiated in early 2020 during the pandemic.
What is known is that a former infrastructure minister, Pedro Nuno Santos recalled the privatisation of TAP carried out by the PSD/CDS-PP government, partially reversed in 2015, in a deal in which TAP was sold for €10 million to “a shareholder who further indebted TAP”. It was the private management led by this shareholder (David Neeleman) who took the decision to renew the airline’s fleet of aircraft.
The deal now under investigation harks back to 2015 when David Neeleman became a TAP shareholder. The President of the airline was Fernando Pinto at that time. TAP had signed a contract to buy just 12 A350 Airbus.
When David Neeleman took over, Neeleman changed the contract in exchange for a new one which agreed to buy 53 new aircraft – all new models (A320 NEO, A321 NEO, A330-900NEO).
Citing a legal analysis from Serra Lopes, Cortes Martins & Associados (SLCM) and Airborne Capital, a specialist consultancy in leasing aircraft, the news site ‘ECO’ revealed last week that in this contract exchange, “Neeleman had shortchanged TAP by US$444 million.
ECO also reported that Airbus transferred US$226.75 million to a company controlled by Neeleman which was then transferred to Atlantic Gateway, a consortium set up by entrepreneur and TAP shareholder Humberto Pedrosa to purchase 61% of TAP.
The question is if this US$226.75 million paid by the aircraft manufacturer was used by Atlantic Gateway for the capital input that Neeleman and Pedroso needed to buy Atlantic Gateway’s share in TAP which ensured its privatisation?
David Neeleman said in October last year that the “new TAP planes were acquired at the market price, as various independent evaluations were presented and confirmed by rigorous and exhaustive technical and political scrutiny” had confirmed.
David Neeleman had always argued that the changed the order with Airbus because TAP didn’t need them, but needed the long-haul A330s and A321s because they were more profitable and TAP could use them to fly to Toronto, Boston, New York and Chicago at lower costs.
“I didn’t take a single cent from TAP. I am bringing all this value and I cannot take out a cent until TAP’s debts have been paid off”, he told the current affairs magazine Visão in 2016.
The Portuguese Government which is now the main shareholder in TAP, is now considering a partial sale of the airline rather than a full sell off.
This would enable it to retain between 10% and 20% of the shares in order to ensure a seat on the board of directors to represent the Portuguese national interest according to Jornal Económico.

Photo: Lusa

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Israel Intel (2023 Hezbollah)

 1 . Hezbollah is also believed to possess the Ma’arab suicide drone (based on the Iranian Yasser UAV, which has a range of 200 to 400 km 

2. Hezbollah passed messages to Israel through several international mediators that it wasn’t part of the attack and didn’t know about it in advance

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/09/12/pgms-irans-precision-guided-munitions-project-in-the-shadow-of-a-nuclear-deal/

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/07/israel-strikes-lebanon-hamas-hezbollah-gaza

new propellant ,advanced long rod tungsten penetrator and high-explosive air-bursting munition (Leopard 2 tank) 1. tungsten is depleted uranium bcz its radioactive thorium 2 if explodes in mid air is a dirty bomb! Putin will engage Russia tactical nuclear at Bielorussia as answer

 The German Leopard 2 evolution

Derived from A4 and A6 models, the German configuration of the A7 version includes an improved mine protection kit, developed for the A6M version, the addition of a programming unit allowing to fire the DM 11 high explosive ammunition, the adoption of a 3rd generation thermal imager in the commanders periscope, a wholly new man-machine interface based on digital control units, the adoption of the IFIS (Integriertes Führungs- und Waffeneinsatzsystem) battlefield management system, the SOTAS digital IP intercom, a new driver control and information system, a crew compartment cooling system in the turret, and a 20 kW auxiliary power unit allowing semi-silent watch and reducing acoustic and thermal signature when operating stationary.

https://www.edrmagazine.eu/krauss-maffei-wegmann-the-ever-lasting-leopard-2

Rheinmetall introduced a larger Rh-130 130 mm L/51 tank gun at Eurosatory 2016 in June 2016. Development commenced in 2015, financed entirely using internal funding, as a response to the Russian introduction of new generation armored vehicles like the T-14 Armata tank, and the first technical demonstrator (TD) was completed in May 2016. The new 130 mm gun has an L/51 chrome-lined smoothbore barrel with a vertical sliding breech mechanism, increased chamber volume, no muzzle brake, a thermal sleeve, and a muzzle reference system (MRS) enabling it to be boresighted on a more regular basis without the crew needing to leave the platform. Compared to the 2700 kg 120 mm gun, the 130 mm has a 1,400 kg (3,100 lb) barrel and an all-up weight of 3000 kg including the recoil system.

Comparison of ammunition Rheinmetall is developing a new generation APFSDS round featuring a semi-combustible cartridge case, new propellant, and new advanced long rod tungsten penetrator as well as a high-explosive air-bursting munition (HE ABM) based on the 120 mm DM11 HE ABM in parallel with the gun; the cartridges are 30 kg (66 lb) and 1.3 m (4.3 ft) long with, according to the company, the increase of 8% in caliber resulting in 50% more kinetic energy over the 120 mm gun.

Engineers believe the weapon can only be used with an automatic loader and new turret design. The gun commenced static firing trials at Rheinmetall's proving ground following Eurosatory, while engineers hope to receive a new NATO standard by the end of 2016, although development of the gun and ammunition will likely take 8–10 years. The 130 mm is designed to equip the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS), a joint effort between Germany and France to produce a successor to the Leopard 2 and Leclerc, possibly to be launched between 2025–2030. In July 2020, Rheinmetall unveilled a testbed tank for the gun in a new turret, mounted on a Challenger 2 hull.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/n34vlp/therapist_dont_worry_putin_130mm_challenger_2/

Thoriated tungsten was and still is a mainstay in tungsten inert gas (TIG) arc welding due to the predictability it brings to the TIG welding process and to welds. However, its major drawback is that it is mildly radioactive. The majority of thorium's radiation is released in the form of alpha particles

Ukraine Russia War Intel (China)

 

IMF Aid to Ukraine still problems , Ukraine is on 122 position of 180 countries over the Transparency International Corruption Index

Ukraine Russia War Intel ( de-mine all region to acess infra estrutures)

 We don't have figures for Kharkiv but further south in Donetsk, emergency services have answered more than 4,000 calls to clear unexploded ordnances since the beginning of Russia's invasion in February last year.

Ukraine Russia War Intel (Austria, "delusional" not making business with Russia)

 Russia will always remain important for Europe, according to Austria's foreign minister, who adds that to think otherwise is delusional. Alexander Schallenberg also defends the country's second-biggest bank, Raiffeisen Bank International, saying it is unreasonable to single out the lender for doing business in Russia while so many other Western firms are doing the same. "To think that there won't be Russia anymore and we can decouple in all areas is delusional," Schallenberg tells Reuters, adding that while Austria will loosen ties this "can't happen overnight."

Ukraine Russia War Intel (Bulgaria cover up armament factories explosions sabotage)

 SOPOT, Bulgaria -- Shortly after sunset on March 21, 2015, the skies above Bulgaria's biggest, and last remaining state-owned, armaments factory filled with the crackle and fury normally associated with a battlefield.

The massive fire at the VMZ plant destroyed a large cache of weapons and ammunition and terrified residents of Sopot, central Bulgaria, and neighboring towns abutting the Balkan Mountains that stretch from Bulgaria's western border with Serbia to the Black Sea coast.

Emil Kabaivanov, the mayor of nearby Karlovo, described fire plumes up to 200 meters high: "You could see things exploding in the air."

Less than a month later, on April 14, there were more blasts and more damage at VMZ.

All three incidents were part of a string of unexplained explosions (and a poisoning) affecting Bulgaria's arms industry, beginning more than a decade ago and seemingly intensifying after Russia invaded and occupied Crimea in 2014 in the first phase of its expanding war to subdue Ukraine.

https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-arms-depot-blasts-russia-ukraine-war-investigation/32322902.html

Russia Ukraine War Intel (China armament suplly)

 Western news agencies confirmed on March 16 that Chinese companies have sold rifles, drone parts, and equipment that could be used for military purposes to unidentified Russian entities. Politico cited data provided by customs data aggregator ImportGenius showing that Chinese companies sent equipment including 1,000 assault rifles, 12 shipments of drone parts, and over 12 tons of body armor to unspecified Russian actors between June and December 2022.[10] CNN also reported on March 16 that Ukrainian forces shot down a retrofitted, weaponized commercial Mugin-5 drone produced by a Chinese commercial manufacturer.[11] These sales appear small in scale, concern largely commercial equipment, and — in all but one confirmed case — do not include companies with ties to the Chinese government, according to Politico.[12]

Such Chinese shipments are significant, however, because they could alleviate strain on the overextended Russian defense industrial base (DIB) and circumvent Western attempts to limit Russian access to microchips. ISW has not observed routine Russian small arms shortages, and Russia’s DIB appears capable of producing sufficient quantities of assault rifles. The import of domestically available equipment from China likely enables the Russian DIB to transfer resources — most critically the limited number of skilled Russian defense plant workers — from the production of such goods to the production of military equipment for which Russia has a dire need.[13] Meanwhile, the sale of even commercial drone parts to Russian entities could provide Russia’s DIB with access to valuable microchips vital to the production of sophisticated equipment, which Western sanctions have worked to prevent.[14]