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The city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia has confirmed its place in modern history, as it will become the home to the next world’s tallest building. News reports out of Saudi Arabia on February 22, 2012 confirmed that the 1000m Kingdom Tower was given its final license to proceed with construction. Currently under construction, the $1.23 billion supertall Kingdom Tower will become the world’s tallest building upon its completion in 2017-2018.
When the Burj Khalifa in Dubai officially opened in a spectacular ceremony on January 4, 2010, the 2,717 foot (828 metre) tower became the tallest building in the world. An incredible feat of engineering and a marvel of technology that many expected would not be outdone for years or perhaps even decades into the future.
Although many building and design visionaries have brought forward architectural concepts to challenge the Burj Khalifa for the title of worlds tallest, no actual developments came to fruition, until now.
Late last year, Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal announced plans to build the world’s tallest building in Jeddah less than two years after the Burj Khalifa opened in Dubai. The news was greeted with enthusiasm, but tempered with skepticism, until now.
Designed by Adrian Smith of AS+ Architecture, the Kingdom Tower consists of 161 habitable floors in a tower that will be over 1000 meters (3,280 feet) tall. The tower will have a awe inspiring total construction area of 530,000 square meters (5.7 million square feet) of interior space.
Adrian Smith is well versed in creating tall buildings. He is the same Architect that planned the Burj Khalifa in Dubai while he was with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The Kingdom Tower will cost approximately $1.2 billion and will be the centerpiece and first construction phase of a $20 billion Kingdom City development in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea.
The new 3,280+ foot Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is expected to take about 63 months to build and according to the Architect, Adrian Smith, will be at least 568 feet taller than the 2717 foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The actual design of the new Kingdom Tower is an elegant sleek and streamlined form that is inspired by nature. Smith encapsulated the design from the evolution of young flora as new shoots spring up from the desert. “The way the fronds sprout upward from the ground as a single form, then start separating from each other at the top, is an analogy of new growth fused with technology.”
The spectacular design of the Kingdom Tower will have a top occupied floor which is more than 600 meters high and includes a unique and daring open-air sky terrace, roughly 30 meters (98 feet) in diameter with a shape that resembles a projected cantilevered dish. This will be the world’s highest outdoor amenity space at level 157 and is intended to be accessible to the penthouse floors.
The ambitious undertaking of creating the world’s tallest building will necessitate one of the worlds most sophisticated elevator systems. Plans call for 59 elevators, including 54 single-deck and five double-deck elevators. A separate dedicated elevator, which will serve the world’s highest observatory in the Kingdom Tower, is designed to travel at an astonishing rate of 10 meters (40 feet) per second in both directions.
AS+ Architecture states:
While the design is contextual to Saudi Arabia, it also represents an evolution and a refinement of an architectural continuum of skyscraper design. The three-petal footprint is ideal for residential units, and the tapering wings produce an aerodynamic shape that helps reduce structural loading due to wind vortex shedding. The Kingdom Tower design embraces its architectural pedigree, taking full advantage of the proven design strategies and technological strategies of its lineage, refining and advancing them to achieve new heights.
The result is an elegant, cost-efficient and highly constructible design that is at once grounded in built tradition and aggressively forward-looking, taking advantage of new and innovative thinking about technology, building materials, life-cycle considerations and energy conservation. For example, the project will feature a high-performance exterior wall system that will minimize energy consumption by reducing thermal loads. In addition, each of Kingdom Tower’s three sides features a series of notches that create pockets of shadow that shield areas of the building from the sun and provide outdoor terraces with stunning views of Jeddah and the Red Sea.
The Kingdom Tower development is a new vision for Saudi Arabia. There is no mistake that a city located halfway up the Red Sea coastline on the western side of the country was chosen for the tower and the massive $20 billion dollar, 23-hectare Waterfront District development surrounding it. Jeddah is the city in which industry was founded in Saudi Arabia. It is known for banking and is a powerful cultural indicator for the country. It is considered to be the most diverse, tolerant, and cosmopolitan of cities in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is looking to diversify its oil based economy and economic base with this urban development. It is not hard to surmise that the “Dubai experience” of having bragging rights to the world’s tallest building has not been lost or willfully ignored by the Saudi’s.
The Kingdom Tower is an extreme engineering feet that is no doubt designed to establish Saudi Arabia’s prominence on the architectural stage of the Arabian Peninsula away from Dubai.
With the 1000m Kingdom Tower, Saudi Arabia has raised the bar to a record height, sending a prominent message with an iconic status symbol that is designed to shift the country’s image worldwide. This is a bold step to open itself up to more business and more opportunity beyond oil.

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Israel and Iran are bitter enemies. They have been
so for a very long time, and will be for some time
in the near future, the two countries may engage
in a mutually destructive war. Indeed, both
countries are openly gearing up towards that end.
Iran’s arsenal is largely made up of indigenous
weapons. Although they are locally made, many,
especially its missiles and rockets, have been
tested through its Lebanese proxy, the Hezbollah.
The rockets do not have the precision of their
Western counterparts, but they are cheap; thus,
they can be produced and fired en masse making
them just as dangerous, destructive, and difficult
to intercept.
Iran’s self-sufficiency in weapons productions is
attributed to the US-initiated sanctions
prohibiting the sale of weapons and arms
technology to Iran. In order to keep up with the
arms race in the Middle East, and to ensure its
protection, Iran began to acquire weapons from
countries hostile to the West, particularly China,
Russia, and North Korea; although they also
imported some weapons from Brazil. The
trademark of Iran, however, is the creation of their
own local weapons mostly through reverse
engineering existing foreign weapons systems.
Now, Iran is considered to be one of the most
militarily dominant countries in Asia.
Of course, Israel is considered by many observers
and analysts to be more advanced and more
capable than any other Arab state in the Middle
East, including Iran. What Israel lacks in numbers
it makes up in its technological superiority.
Indeed, Israel’s weapons systems are considered
to be one of the world’s most advanced, even
attracting interest of the US, Japan, UK, Australia,
and other wealthy countries. The Iron Dome and
David’s Sling missile defense shields, for instance,
are so accurate they have been proven to destroy
95% of hostile missiles in mid-air. South Korea
and Japan has persistently showed interest in
acquiring the systems and have negotiated with
Israel for it. Israel, too, has a superior air force,
and it is even bent on acquiring the latest F-35
Joint Strike Fighter. The addition of this highly
capable aircraft will further bolster Israel’s strike
capability.
Essentially, the conflict between the two bitter
enemies is going to be a contest of numerical
superiority against technological superiority.
Should war take place, both countries are bound
to hurt each other so much no one would emerge
as the victor.

Israeli claims of bombing the Syrian international airport are false. Israeli Orient news used a fake video from two years ago. https://twitter.com/ Ibra_Joudeh/status/664619025121570816 no one in Damascus say they heard anything. but why would you want to claim such a terrorist act of bombing a countries international airport duty free? Where is the UN on such criminal claims? Perhaps to take the Syrian militaries victory against ISIS in kwaires airport out of the headlines which happened hours prior to this claim. Israel is covering up ISIS' defeat.

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The United States has deployed a number of attack aircraft to an airbase in southern Turkey, a US military official says. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP on Tuesday that 12 A-10 ground-attack planes arrived at Incirlik over the weekend. They have already been scheduled to help the US-led coalition fighting against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria, the official added. The official claimed that the deployment had "added capability" to the coalition's fight against ISIL. Known by soldiers on the ground as “Warthogs,” A-10 is a tactical military aircraft that has a primary role of carrying out airstrikes with greater precision than bombers. The planes are heavily strengthened and designed to withstand direct hits from armor-piercing rounds. "There's more significant risk than other aircraft due to the flight path they typically fly," the official said. The United States has increased its militaristic activities in the Middle East region after Russia launched an air campaign last month against terrorists wreaking havoc in Syria. Russia has carried out scores of airstrikes against terrorists there, killing hundreds of them. Earlier this month, Russia fired 26 long-range cruise missiles from its warships in the Caspian Sea against terrorists in Syria. Unnamed US officials have told The Associated Press that Russia has directed parts of its military campaign against US-backed terrorists and other extremist groups in an effort to weaken them. They say the CIA-trained militants are now under Russian missile strikes with little prospect of rescue by their American supporters.

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The United States has deployed a number of
attack aircraft to an airbase in southern Turkey,
a US military official says.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity,
told AFP on Tuesday that 12 A-10 ground-attack
planes arrived at Incirlik over the weekend.
They have already been scheduled to help the
US-led coalition fighting against Daesh (ISIL)
terrorists in Iraq and Syria, the official added.
The official claimed that the deployment had
"added capability" to the coalition's fight against
ISIL.
Known by soldiers on the ground as “Warthogs,”
A-10 is a tactical military aircraft that has a
primary role of carrying out airstrikes with greater
precision than bombers.
The planes are heavily strengthened and designed
to withstand direct hits from armor-piercing
rounds.
"There's more significant risk than other aircraft
due to the flight path they typically fly," the
official said.
The United States has increased its militaristic
activities in the Middle East region after Russia
launched an air campaign last month against
terrorists wreaking havoc in Syria.
Russia has carried out scores of airstrikes
against terrorists there, killing hundreds of them.
Earlier this month, Russia fired 26 long-range
cruise missiles from its warships in the Caspian
Sea against terrorists in Syria.
Unnamed US officials have told The Associated
Press that Russia has directed parts of its military
campaign against US-backed terrorists and other
extremist groups in an effort to weaken them.
They say the CIA-trained militants are now under
Russian missile strikes with little prospect of
rescue by their American supporters.

IMPORTANT TO THOSE WHO CARE AND BELIEVE Some thirty (30) years back, Maolana Sheikh Muhammad Jamiu was reported to had told some of his disciples that "SATURN( a planet known as ZUALI in arabic) has navigates into SCORPIO (one of the twelve ZODIACS). Nigeria shall experience a lot of difficulties, until it completes it navigation in all the ZODIACS, and starts another navigation into SCORPIO" Thus, SATURN stays in every ZODIAC for thirty (30) months, which means it will complete these planetary movements in a period of 360 months, which is 30 years. With the authority Maolana Sheik Abdulrasheed Nkrumah said, I am pleased and happy to say Monday 12th October 2015(29 dhul-hijja 1436) shall be the the end of these trying periods. Insha Allah, Tuesday 13th October 2015 (1st Muharram 1437) shall be the BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA. Maolana Sheikh Jamiu Bulala had predicted that evil and evil doers start start falling, corruption and corrupted persons shall fall. Nigeria shall starts experiencing good moments, Allah shall support and help those with good intentions. RECOMMENDED PRAYER: Suratul-Fathi 1, 3, 7, 11 or 14. Lahillah'Illallah anta Naa'sir 111, 114, 313, or 1111. May Allah count us among the blessed.

The United States has pulled out the USS
Theodore Roosevelt, a massive, nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier, of the Persian Gulf as Russian
warships have entered the area.
For the first time since 2007, the US Navy has
now no aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf,
according to NBC News.
The warship was withdrawn from the Persian Gulf
on Thursday, a day after Russia fired 26 long-
range cruise missiles from its Caspian Flotilla
against terrorists in Syria, Pentagon officials
said.
US military officials claimed that the aircraft
carrier, which the houses about 5,000 sailors and
65 fighter jets, was withdrawn because it needed
to undergo maintenance.
Tensions between the United States and Russia
escalated after Moscow began its military
campaign on September 30 against Daesh (ISIL)
terrorists wreaking havoc in Syria.
Russia has carried out more than 110 airstrikes
against terrorists in Syria so far, killing hundreds
of militants.
The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that the
United States had adopted measures to ensure a
safe distance from Russian fighter jets flying over
Syria.
Republican Senator John McCain, the chairman of
the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on
Thursday that Washington should "just leave"
Syria "if all of your [US] actions are dictated by
the risk of confrontation with Russia."
Peter Daly, a retired Navy vice admiral, noted that
the absence of a US aircraft carrier is being
noticed by Russians.
"The most important thing you need a carrier for
is for what you don't know is going to happen
next," Daly told NBC News.
Three unnamed US military officials claimed on
Thursday that some cruise missiles fired from
Russian ships at targets in Syria landed in Iran.
Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in
the Caspian Sea on Wednesday . ( Russian Defense
Ministry Press Service)
The officials stated that four Russian cruise
missiles went off course and crashed in Iran,
adding that they don’t know if the errant missiles
caused any damage.
In response, the Russian Defense Ministry
statement said that the new Kalibr-NK cruise
missiles all struck within nine feet of their
intended targets in Syria.
"No matter how unpleasant and unexpected it is
for our colleagues in the Pentagon and Langley,
our strike yesterday with precision-guided
weapons at ISIS (Daesh/ISIL) infrastructure in
Syria hit its targets," the Russian Defense
Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/10/432800/US-warship-Persian-Gulf

Missy89:
So You believe an Iranian official but you are refusing to believe an American official why?

America has space satellite that can track missiles, why can't they tell the world where the missiles crash and give satellite aerial view of the sites.

NairaMinted:
Something embarrassing and that I must say, I am unhappy to announce has happened: Russian cruise missiles crashed in Iran a couple of minutes ago.

that is a lie America media propaganda Iranian official have rejected the claim.

CSTR2:
And what will russia do if america ''mistakenly'' shot down a russian jet?
Invade america?
lol.
Putin would just rave and rant and that would be the end of it.

the America government understand and believe that the Russia air defence is formidable considering latest s-400 Russia surface to air missile. American jet will shivering in sky

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kingkaspa:
I will appreciate if you can give us the source. Thanks.

http://off-guardian.org/2015/07/26/
beyond-propaganda-the-russia-u-s-
conventional-military-balance/

Beyond propaganda: Russia-U.S conventional military balance. “The US military was never designed to fight a major war against a sophisticated enemy….As for the Russian military, it was designed to be purely defensive and it has no capability to threaten anybody in Europe, much less so the United States…” In a recent column for the Unz Review I wrote that “under any conceivable scenario Russia does have the means to basically completely destroy the USA as a country in about 30min (the USA, of course, can do the same to Russia). Any US war planner would have to consider the escalatory potential of any military action against Russia.” This still begs the question of whether Russia could challenge the USA militarily if we assume, for demonstration’s sake, that neither side would be prepared to use nuclear weapons, including tactical ones. If, by some mysterious magic, all nuclear weapons were to disappear, what would the balance of power between Russian and the US look like? Why Bean Counting Makes Absolutely No Sense The typical reply to this kind of question resorts to what US force planners call “bean counting”. Typically, journalists use the yearly IISS Military Balance or a source like Global Firepower and tallies of the number of men, main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry combat vehicles, combat aircraft, artillery pieces, bombers, missiles, surface ships, submarines, etc. presented by each side in a chart. The reality is that such bean counting means absolutely and strictly nothing. Let’s take a simple example: if a war happens between, say, China and Russia then the fact that China has, say, 1000 tanks in its Yunnan province, will make no difference to the war at all, simply because they are too distant. When we apply this caveat to the Russian-US conventional military balance we immediately ought to ask ourselves the following two basic questions: a) What part of the US military worldwide would be immediately available to the US commanders in case of a war with Russia? b) On how many reinforcements could this force count and how soon could they get there? Keep in mind that tanks, bombers, soldiers and artillery do not fight separately – they fight together in what is logically called “combined arms” battles. So even if the USA could get X number of soldiers to location A, if they don’t have all the other combined arms components to support them in combat they are just an easy target. Furthermore, any fighting force will require a major logistics/supply effort. It is all very well to get aircraft X to location A, but if its missiles, maintenance equipment and specialists are not there to help, they are useless. Armored forces are notorious for expending a huge amount of petroleum, oil and lubricants. According to one estimate, in 1991 a US armored division could sustain itself for only 5 days, and after that it needed a major supply effort. Finally, any force that the US would move from point A to point B would become unavailable to execute its normally assigned role at point A. Now consider that “point A” could mean the Middle-East, or Far East Asia and you will see that this might be a difficult decision for US commanders. “Heavy” warfare We have one very good example of how the US operates: Operation Desert Shield . During this huge operation it took the US six months and an unprecedented logistical effort to gather the forces needed to attack Iraq. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia had been prepared for decades to receive such a massive force (in compliance with the so-called Carter Doctrine ) and the US efforts was completely unopposed by Saddam Hussein. Now ask yourself the following questions: a) In case of war with Russia, which country neighboring Russia would have an infrastructure similar to the one of the KSA, prepositioned equipment, huge bases, runways, deep ports, etc. ? (Answer: none) b) How likely is it that the Russians would give the USA six months to prepare for war without taking any action? (Answer: impossible) One might object that not all wars run according to the “heavy” scenario of Desert Storm . What if the US was preparing a very ‘light’ military intervention using only US and NATO immediate or rapid reaction forces? Light (or rapid reaction) warfare I will repeat here something I wrote in December of last year: The Russians have no fear of the military threat posed by NATO. Their reaction to the latest NATO moves (new bases and personnel in Central Europe, more spending, etc.) is to denounce it as provocative, but Russian officials all insist that Russia can handle the military threat. As one Russian deputy said “5 rapid reaction diversionary groups is a problem we can solve with one missile”. A simplistic but basically correct formula. As I mentioned before, the decision to double the size of the Russian Airborne Forces and to upgrade the elite 45th Special Designation Airborne Regiment to full brigade-size has already been taken anyway. You could say that Russia preempted the creation of the 10’000 strong NATO force by bringing her own mobile (airborne) forces from 36’000 to 72’000. This is typical Putin. While NATO announces with fanfare and fireworks that NATO will create a special rapid reaction “spearhead” force of 10’000, Putin quietly doubles the size of the Russian Airborne Forces to 72’000. And, believe me, the battle hardened Russian Airborne Forces are a vastly more capable fighting force then the hedonistic and demotivated multi-national (28 countries) Euroforce of 5’000 NATO is struggling hard to put together. The US commanders fully understand that. In other words, “light” or “rapid reaction” warfare is where the Russians excel and not the kind of conflict the US or NATO could ever hope to prevail in. Besides, if the “light warfare” was to last longer than planned and had to be escalated to the “heavy” kind, would the USA or Russia have its heavy forces nearer? Shock and Awe There is, of course, another model available to the US commanders: the “shock and awe” model: massive cruise missile attacks backed by bomber strikes. Here I could easily object that bombing Russia is not comparable to bombing Iraq and that the Russian air defenses are the most formidable on the planet. Or I could say that while the USA has an excellent record of success when bombing civilians, its record against a military force like the Serbian Army Corps in Kosovo was an abject failure. [Sidebar : 78 days of non-stop US/NATO airstrikes, 1000+ aircraft and 38’000+ air sorties and all that to achieve what? Ten or so Serbian aircraft destroyed (most on the ground), 20+ APC and tanks destroyed and 1000+ Serbian soldiers dead or wounded. That is out of a force of 130’000+ Serbian soliders, 80+ aircraft, 1’400 artillery pieces, 1’270 tanks and 825 APCs (all figures according to Wikipedia). The 3rd Serbian Army Corps basically came out unharmed from this massive bombing campaign which will go down in history as arguably the worst defeat of airpower in history! ] But even if we assume that somehow the US succeeded in its favorite “remote” warfare, does anybody believe that this would seriously affect the Russian military or breaking the will of the Russian people? The people of Leningrad survived not 78, but 900 (nine hundred!) days of a infinitely worse siege and bombing and never even considered surrendering! The reality is that being on the defense gives Russia a huge advantage against the USA even if we only consider conventional weapons. Even if the conflict happened in the Ukraine or the Baltic states, geographic proximity would give Russia a decisive advantage over any conceivable US/NATO attack. American commanders all understand that very well even if they pretend otherwise. Conversely, a Russian attack on the USA or NATO is just as unlikely, and for the same reasons. Russia cannot project her power very far from her borders. In fact, if you look at the way the Russian military is organized, structured and trained, you will immediately see that it is a force designed primarily to defeat an enemy on the Russian border or within less than 1000km from it. Yes, sure, you will see Russian bombers, surface ships and submarines reaching much further, but these are also typical “showing the flag” missions, not combat training for actual military scenarios. The sole real purpose of the US military is to regularly beat up on some small, more or less defenseless country, either in order to rob it of its resources, overthrow a government daring to defy the World Hegemon, or just to make an example of it. The US military was never designed to fight a major war against a sophisticated enemy. Only the US strategic nuclear forces are tasked to defend the USA against another nuclear power (Russia or China) or actually fight in a major war. As for the Russian military, it was designed to be purely defensive and it has no capability to threaten anybody in Europe, much less so the United States. Of course, the western corporate media will continue to “bean count” US and Russian forces, but that is pure propaganda designed to create a sense of urgency and fear in the general public. The reality for the foreseeable future will remain that neither the USA nor Russia have the means to successfully attack each other, even with only conventional forces. The only real danger left is an unprepared and unforeseen sudden escalation which will lead to a confrontation neither side wants nor is prepared for. T he Israeli attack on Lebanon in 2006 or the Georgian attack on Russian peacekeepers in 2008 are two scary reminders that sometimes dumb politicians take fantastically dumb decisions. I am confident that Putin and his team would never make such a dumb decision, but when I look at the current pool of US Presidential candidates I will tell you that I get very, very frightened.

Its only mouth they can't attack Iran.

Israel can only make mouth of attacking Iran but can never attack Iran.