{"id":13008,"date":"2015-02-27T01:55:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T22:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sudanpress.net\/?p=13008"},"modified":"2015-02-27T01:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T22:55:37","slug":"%d9%85%d9%88%d9%82%d8%b9-defencesecurity-intelligenceanalysis-%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%b4%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b5%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a-%d8%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/?p=13008","title":{"rendered":"Defence&#038;Security Intelligence&#038;Analysis &#8211; sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">Sudan&#8217;s Military Industry Corporation (MIC) has increased its presence and brought a wider variety of its products to IDEX, having made its debut at the show in 2013.<br \/>\nIn addition to its main stand, the company booked space in the static outside area, where it displayed its Khalifa-1 self-propelled gun, the 120 mm mortar carrier variant of its Khatim-2 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), a mobile version of the Taka 107 mm multiple rocket launcher, the Nimr long-range patrol vehicle, unarmoured Tamal tactical vehicle, and the previously unseen Sarsar-2 armoured reconnaissance vehicle.<br \/>\nThe Khalifa-1 gun is essentially a 122 mm D-30 howitzer mounted on the back of a modified Kamaz 6&#215;6 truck.<br \/>\nThe Khatim-2 has been identified as the Sudanese version of the Iranian Boraq-2 IFV, which is similar to the Russian BMP-2.<br \/>\nWith a combat weight of 5,500 kg, the new Sarsar vehicle is built on a 1.2 ton KIA chassis and is listed as being armoured to the Russian CEN level BR6, which can withstand standard 7.62&#215;51 mm bullets.<br \/>\nThe Iranian connection continued on the MIC&#8217;s main stand, where a stabilised remote weapon station called the Ateed was on display. This appeared to be identical to the ARIO-H762, which is made by the Iranian company Rayan Roshd.<br \/>\nThere were other new products on the main stand that appeared to be of Chinese, rather than Sudanese origin. Most notably, the Sarib anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) strongly resembles the Chinese HJ-8 optically tracked, wire-guided system on the lightweight launcher (known as the HJ-8L).<br \/>\nThe MIC documentation for the Sarib said it is capable of penetrating 220 mm of homogenous armour steel plate at an angle of 68 degrees with explosive reactive armour: the same lethality as the HJ-8C tandem warhead missile.<br \/>\nThe MIC also displayed two scale models of what appeared to be FN-6 man-portable air defence system (MANPADS), but there did not appear to be any supporting documentation claiming the weapon was being manufactured in Sudan.<br \/>\nAnother Chinese weapon, the 35 mm QLZ-87 automatic grenade launcher, that the MIC says it produces under the name Ahmed was not on display.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s Military Industry Corporation (MIC) has increased its presence and brought a wider variety of its products to IDEX, having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}