Friday, April 1, 2011

Top 10 Most Expensive Military Aircrafts

As the military technology advances, these most expensive military aircraft in the world were created. For the need of more powerful means of defense, flying military technology are developed. Even creating a highly cost military equipment is not debatable by some people as it’s wasting government’s money, but the show must go on. Here’s the Top 10 most expensive military aircraft ever made in the world.

1. B-2 Spirit
The B-2 bomber was so costly that Congress cut its initial 1987 purchase order from 132 to 21. (A 2008 crash leaves the current number at 20.) The B-2 is hard to detect via infrared, acoustic, electromagnetic, visual or radar signals. This stealth capability makes it able to attack enemy targets with less fear of retaliation. In use since 1993, the B-2 has been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan.




Cost:
about $2.4 billion

2. F-22 Raptor
F-22 Raptor is a stealth fighter aircraft made by the United States. It was originally envisioned as air superiority fighter for use against Soviet aircraft, but the aircraft is equipped for ground attack, electronic warfare and signals intelligence. This aircraft through a long development period, is named the prototype YF-22, three years before it was officially adopted F/A-22 named, and finally given the name of the F-22A when used on the official start in December 2005. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is the prime contractor is responsible for the majority of the airframe, weapons, and assembling the F-22. Then his partner, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems provides the wings, avionics equipment, and pilot and maintenance training.


 
Cost:

about $350 million

3. C17A Globemaster III
C-17 Globemaster III is a military transport aircraft of the United States are manufactured by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems and operated by the United States Air Force, Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force. This aircraft has been also selected by the Canadian Military and planned for delivery in 2007. NATO is also planning to order this type of transport aircraft.
C-17 takes the form of the same name from two heavy transport aircraft of its predecessor the C-74 Globemaster and C-124 Globemaster II.
Cost:

about $328 million


 
   
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General Use Abbreviations

GPRS

(General Packet Radio Service)

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FM

(Frequency Modulation)

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AM

(Amplitude Modulation)

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IP

(Internet Protocol)

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TCP/IP

(Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol)

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ISP

(Internet Service Provider)

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VHF

(Very High Frequency)

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UHF

(Ultra High Frequency)

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LCD

(Liquid-Crystal Display)

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MPEG

(Moving Pictures Experts Group)

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MP3

(MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3)

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RAM

(Random Access Memory)

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WAN

(Wide Area Network)

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LAN

(Local Area Network)

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3D

(3 Dimensional)

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3G

(3rd Generation)

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CD

(Compact Disc)

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DVD

(Digital Versatile/Video Disc)

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DVDR

(Recordable DVD)

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DVDW

(Rewriteable DVD)

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SMS

(Short Messaging Service)

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IT

(Information Technology)

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FAQ

(Frequently Asked Questions)

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DSL

(Digital Subscriber Line)

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IPO

(Initial Public Offerings)

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FBI

(Federal Bureau of Investigation)

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CIA

(Central Intelligence Agency)

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S.W.A.T

(Special Weapons and Tactics)

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GMC

(General Motors Corporation)

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BMW

(Bavarian Motor Works)

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HP

( Hewlett-Packard)

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WWW

(World Wide Web)

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HTTP

(HyperText Transfer Protocol)

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URL

(Uniform resource Locator)

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HTML

(HyperText Markup Language)

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WAP

(Wireless Application Protocol)

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PDF

(Portable Document Format)

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MIDI

(Musical Instruament Digital Interface)

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3 GP or 3GPP

(3rd Generation Partnership Project)

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AMR

(Adaptive Multi-Rate)

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USB

(Universal Serial Bus)

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IQ

(Intelligence Quotient)

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MSN

(MicroSoft Network)

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CNN

(Cable News Network)

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BBC

(British Broadcasting Corporation)

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NBA

(National Basketball Association)

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FIFA

(in french, Federation Internationale de Football Association)

(in english, International Federation of Association Football)

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UEFA

(Union of European Football Association)

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NASA

(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

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OPEC

(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)

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UN

(United Nations)

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LNB

(Low Noise Block converter)

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Are Men Are Like That ...

A man had two of the best tickets for the World Cup Final. As he sits down, another man comes along and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him.

"No", he says, "the seat belongs to me but it is empty.."

"This is incredible!" said the man, "who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the World Cup Final, the biggest sporting event of the year, and not use it?"


He says, "Well, actually, my wife was supposed to come with me, but she passed away. This is the first Cup Final we haven't been to together since we got married."

"Oh... I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. I guess you couldn't find someone else, a friend or relative or even a neighbour to take the seat?"

The man shakes his head... "No. They're all at the funeral."
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امریکی تاریخ کب شروع ہوتی ہے

امریکہ میں کھدائی کے دوران پتھروں کے نئے اوزار ملنے کے بعد وہاں پہلی بار انسانوں کے آباد ہونے کے بارے میں قائم نظریہ غلط ثابت ہو سکتا ہے۔
ماہرینِ آثار قدیمہ نے پتھروں کے ہزاروں ایسے اوزار برآمد کیے ہیں جو ان اشیاء سے پرانے ہیں جن کے بارے میں خیال ہے کہ وہ امریکہ میں آباد ہونے والے پہلے انسان اپنے پاس رکھتے تھے۔
امریکی ریاست ٹیکساس سے ملنے والے ان نئے اوزاروں کے بارے میں کہا جا رہا ہے کہ یہ اس بات کا واضح ثبوت ہیں کہ ’کلووس تہذیب‘ امریکہ کے اصل باسیوں کی نمائندگی نہیں کرتی۔
’سائنس‘ نامی جریدے میں شائع ہونے والے ایک مضمون میں ساڑھے پندرہ ہزار برس پرانے اوزار کی تفصیل بیان کی گئی ہے۔ امریکہ میں پہلے ہی حالیہ دہائیوں میں کھدائی کے دوران ایسی اشیاء ملی ہیں جو ’کلووس‘ تہذیب کے لوگوں کے امریکہ کے پہلے باسی ہونے کے نظریے کو مشکوک بنا رہی تھیں۔
’سائنس‘ میں شائع ہونے والے مضمون کے مصنفین کے مطابق ٹیکساس سے ملنے والے اوزاروں کی عمر معلوم ہونے کے بعد کلووس تہذیب کے بارے میں نظریہ بالکل ختم ہو گیا ہے۔
گزشتہ اسی برس سے امریکہ کے بارے میں خیال تھا کہ یہاں سائبیریا سے امریکی ریاست الاسکا کے راستے پہنچنے والے لوگ سب سے پہلے آ کر آباد ہوئے تھے۔ شواہد سے معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ یہ لوگ ساڑھے تیرہ ہزار برس پہلے امریکہ پہنچے تھے۔ ان لوگوں کے پاس کارآمد تیر اور کمان تھے جن سے یہ اس وقت اس بر اعظم پر پائے جانے والے بھاری بھرکم جانوروں کا شکار کرتے تھے۔
لیکن اب ٹیکساس سے جو پندرہ ہزار پانچ سو اٹھائیس اوزار ملے ہیں ان کی عمر ساڑھے پندرہ ہزار برس ہے۔ ماہرین کا کہنا ہے کہ ان اوزاروں کی عمر معتبر طریقے سے معلوم کی گئی ہے جسے او ایس ایل کہتے ہیں۔
تاہم کچھ ماہرین اس تحقیق میں غلطی کے امکان کو رد نہیں کرتے۔

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A CIA Commander For Libyan Rebels

By Patrick Martin

March 28, 2011 "
WSWS" -- The Libyan National Council, the Benghazi-based group that speaks for the rebel forces fighting the Gaddafi regime, has appointed a long-time CIA collaborator to head its military operations. The selection of Khalifa Hifter, a former colonel in the Libyan army, was reported by McClatchy Newspapers Thursday and the new military chief was interviewed by a correspondent for ABC News on Sunday night.

Hifter’s arrival in Benghazi was first reported by Al Jazeera on March 14, followed by a flattering portrait in the virulently pro-war British tabloid the Daily Mail on March 19. The Daily Mail described Hifter as one of the “two military stars of the revolution” who “had recently returned from exile in America to lend the rebel ground forces some tactical coherence.” The newspaper did not refer to his CIA connections.

McClatchy Newspapers published a profile of Hifter on Sunday. Headlined “New Rebel Leader Spent Much of Past 20 years in Suburban Virginia,” the article notes that he was once a top commander for the Gaddafi regime, until “a disastrous military adventure in Chad in the late 1980s.”

Hifter then went over to the anti-Gaddafi opposition, eventually emigrating to the United States, where he lived until two weeks ago when he returned to Libya to take command in Benghazi.

The McClatchy profile concluded, “Since coming to the United States in the early 1990s, Hifter lived in suburban Virginia outside Washington, DC.” It cited a friend who “said he was unsure exactly what Hifter did to support himself, and that Hifter primarily focused on helping his large family.”

To those who can read between the lines, this profile is a thinly disguised indication of Hifter’s role as a CIA operative. How else does a high-ranking former Libyan military commander enter the United States in the early 1990s, only a few years after the Lockerbie bombing, and then settle near the US capital, except with the permission and active assistance of US intelligence agencies? Hifter actually lived in Vienna, Virginia, about five miles from CIA headquarters in Langley, for two decades.

The agency was very familiar with Hifter’s military and political work. A Washington Post report of March 26, 1996 describes an armed rebellion against Gaddafi in Libya and uses a variant spelling of his name. The article cites witnesses to the rebellion who report that “its leader is Col. Khalifa Haftar, of a contra-style group based in the United States called the Libyan National Army.”

The comparison is to the “contra” terrorist forces financed and armed by the US government in the 1980s against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra scandal, which rocked the Reagan administration in 1986-87, involved the exposure of illegal US arms sales to Iran, with the proceeds used to finance the contras in defiance of a congressional ban. Congressional Democrats covered up the scandal and rejected calls to impeach Reagan for sponsoring the flagrantly illegal activities of a cabal of former intelligence operatives and White House aides.

A 2001 book, Manipulations africaines, published by Le Monde diplomatique, traces the CIA connection even further back, to 1987, reporting that Hifter, then a colonel in Gaddafi’s army, was captured fighting in Chad in a Libyan-backed rebellion against the US-backed government of Hissène Habré. He defected to the Libyan National Salvation Front (LNSF), the principal anti-Gaddafi group, which had the backing of the American CIA. He organized his own militia, which operated in Chad until Habré was overthrown by a French-supported rival, Idriss Déby, in 1990.

According to this book, “the Haftar force, created and financed by the CIA in Chad, vanished into thin air with the help of the CIA shortly after the government was overthrown by Idriss Déby.” The book also cites a Congressional Research Service report of December 19, 1996 that the US government was providing financial and military aid to the LNSF and that a number of LNSF members were relocated to the United States.

This information is available to anyone who conducts even a cursory Internet search, but it has not been reported by the corporate-controlled media in the United States, except in the dispatch from McClatchy, which avoids any reference to the CIA. None of the television networks, busily lauding the “freedom fighters” of eastern Libya, has bothered to report that these forces are now commanded by a longtime collaborator of US intelligence services.

Nor have the liberal and “left” enthusiasts of the US-European intervention in Libya taken note. They are too busy hailing the Obama administration for its multilateral and “consultative” approach to war, supposedly so different from the unilateral and “cowboy” approach of the Bush administration in Iraq. That the result is the same—death and destruction raining down on the population, the trampling of the sovereignty and independence of a former colonial country—means nothing to these apologists for imperialism.

The role of Hifter, aptly described 15 years ago as the leader of a “contra-style group,” demonstrates the real class forces at work in the Libyan tragedy. Whatever genuine popular opposition was expressed in the initial revolt against the corrupt Gaddafi dictatorship, the rebellion has been hijacked by imperialism.

The US and European intervention in Libya is aimed not at bringing “democracy” and “freedom,” but at installing in power stooges of the CIA who will rule just as brutally as Gaddafi, while allowing the imperialist powers to loot the country’s oil resources and use Libya as a base of operations against the popular revolts sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

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First Masjid in INDIA

First Masjid in INDIA

These are pictures of the first masjid in India, in a place called Kodangallur in Kerala

The story about this masjid is that the king of Kodangallur, Raja Rama Kulasekhara accepted Islam at the hands of the Sahabi of RasoolAllah (SAS), Malik Deenar (RA) who came here in 4 Hijri.
The king gave Malik Deenar (RA) and his companions land to build a masjid.
The masjid resembles a Kerala temple in construction and has a brass lamp for lighting.
Inside it has a mimbar and mihraab.
Just outside the main chamber are the graves of Malik Deenar's son and his wife.
Malik Deenar (RA) left Kodangallur and went to Kasargod where he died and was buried.
His grave is in Kasargod.
This masjid is historic proof that Islam has been in India from 629 AD (4 Hijri) for 1376 years.



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