Momo wrote on 29 Sep 2009 11:30:


Ill add that to my list of huge hugs today from Tatte in Himmel
Thank you Momo
I love you man

Its amazing how when one just opens his eyes,the hugs are everywhere.
For one example,I was walking through geula today on my way to take a bus home
I hate buses.
And who do i pass?
A person from my town.
Half an hour later Im home.
Thank you Hashem

Another couple of big hugs came today but i cant really share them without giving away my identity completely,so ill save that for a different time

Have a great day everyone!
-uri

Feel the HUGS!
www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6280

Iran loses its only AWACS as Ahmadinejad threatens the world

Up above a big military parade in Tehran on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as Iranian president declared Iran's armed forces would "chop off the hands" of any power daring to attack his country, two air force jets collided in mid-air. One was Iran's only airborne warning and control system (AWACS) for coordinating long-distance aerial operations, DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources disclose.

The proud military parade, which included a march-past, a line of Shehab-3 missiles and an air force fly-past, was planned to give Ahmadinejad a dazzling send-off for New York and add steel to his UN Assembly speech Wednesday.

Dubbed "Simorgh" (a flying creature of Iranian fable which performs wonders in mid-flight), the AWACS' appearance, escorted by fighter jets, was to have been the climax for the Iranian Air force's fly-past over the parade. Instead, it collided with one of escorting planes, a US-made F-5E, and both crashed to the ground in flames. All seven crewmen were killed.

Eye witnesses reported that the flaming planes landed on the mausoleum burial site of the Islamic revolution's founder Ruhollah Khomeini, a national shrine. According to Western observers, no distress signals came from either cockpit indicating that the collision and explosions were sudden and fast.

DEBKAfile's military sources say the disaster was a serious blow to the Iranian Air Force not long after its first and only AWACS went into service in April 2008. It was a renovated version of the Russian Ilyushin 76, part of Saddam Hussein's air force before it was transferred to Iran in 1991 during the first Gulf War.

Tehran hired Russian technicians to carry out renovations and install up-to-date radar. At the launching ceremony of the upgraded AWACS, Air Force commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Miqani boasted its new radar systems were made in Iran and able to spot any airplane or missile at a distance of 1,000 kilometers from Iran's borders.

The loss of this airborne control system has left Iran's air force and air and missile defenses without "electronic eyes" for surveillance of the skies around its borders.

Reb Guard,

so I"m not the only one here that reads the Debka Files.

Yup! Now that's a Hug for Klal Yisroel!

If only we realize the Yad Hashem in all this.

No need for "Koichi V'Otsem Yodi" Hashem doesn't nee our help in doing the fighting!

Hashem Yilochem Lochem, V'Atem Tachreeshin!

they lost control
they where trying  to pronounce achameneneeeejjjads name

Shkoyach Mr. B.
for the laugh
;D

But according to Strategic Forecasting, a private intelligence and security consultancy based in Austin, Texas, the loss of the Iranian Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, known as AWACS, is probably not as dramatic as it may seem.

The AWACS, a dilapidated Soviet-era Ilyushin that once belonged to Saddam Hussein's air force, collided with one of two U.S-built F-5E fighters escorting it. Neither aircraft radioed a mayday so the incident was likely over in a few seconds.

According to reports, both planes crashed in flames. The F-5's two-man crew ejected, but all seven crewmen aboard the AWACS apparently perished.

The aircraft, a modified Il-76 transport (NATO designation "Candid"), is believed to have carried electronic equipment that was in all probability outdated and thus of limited military effectiveness or value.

The jet – known in Iran as the Simogh, a fabled flying creature which performs wonders in the air – was one of three modified by the Iraqi air force during the 1980-88 war with Iran and was known as the "Adnan."

One was destroyed by in an Allied air strike in the Desert Storm war of 1991. Two, including the one lost Tuesday, were among dozens of Iraqi aircraft flown to Iran toward the end of the conflict, apparently for safekeeping.

After the conflict, Tehran refused to return the aircraft and absorbed many, including the AWACS, into its own air force. The second Iranian AWACS apparently became non-operational several years ago.

The Iranian air force has lost several aircraft, including two transports, in the last few years, and these have been attributed to poor maintenance, lack of spares because of a U.S.-led arms embargo and poor training.

One AWACS aircraft cannot provide round-the-clock early warning coverage, so the Ilyushin's value was extremely limited.

Stratfor noted that even if the AWACS had been integrated into Iran's air defense network, which analysts say has many shortcomings, "it would not have provided Iran with much of a leg up. Iran's central defense strategy does not rely on its air force. Knowing all too well where its qualitative disadvantages lie, Iran focuses on asymmetric challenges to conventional military power. …

"Put simply: Even if the lost aircraft was Iran's only AWACs, the status of Iran's security remains unchanged."

So, its a HUG, but we still need MAJOR rachmai shomayim.

kutan.

PS: TOLD you I was paranoid, Guard! 

Caught a great ride today.
Had a great session with the therapist.
Financial situation is mamesh a miracle.
Didn't run into a single girl i know in the city.
Was blessed with a good mood today.

Is 5 hugs enough?
I'm holding up the fort all by myself here guys!
Shver.

principal not angry at me and she's been really touche lately
hug!
randomly in a good mood- no reason
hug!
did all my work on time!
hug!

the little things that hug!

there we go!

and sis,i dont mean to correct you...

but do we even know the extent of the hug ever?
this thread is only for the hugs the we see and what we see of them even.
but the branches of the hugs are usually too spread out for us to even know...

that's true- when my principal's mad it can ruin my whole day!
it's important to realize that Hashem granting her satisfaction with my work
was really a hug that affected my whole day!

i even liked what was served for lunch today- and those bagels for sure have long lasting effects!

uch dont mention bagels!
were the vegetables sliced perfectly?

Uri wrote on 30 Sep 2009 21:08:


LOL
Now how many got that one Uri?!

that was for you mom 

I'll take mine with cream cheese. Hold the sushi please.

oy mom, sushi doesnt come on bagels.
are you ok with lox?

itll be a bit
im trying to get these stupid cucumbers even.

btw-who the heck puts cucumbers in their bagels anyway?!