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Khaybar (other)
Khaybar or Khaibar may refer to: *Khaybar, an oasis in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia *Khyber (Hunza), Khaibar (Hunza), a village in Gilgit−Baltistan, Pakistan * Khaibar-1, a Syrian-made rocket widely used in the 2006 Lebanon War by Hezbollah against Israel * KH-2002, KH-2002 Khaybar, an Iranian bullpup assault rifle *PNS Khaibar (1956), PNS ''Khaibar'' (1956), a British Battle-class destroyer of the Pakistani Navy sunk by Indian forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 *PNS Khaibar (1989), PNS ''Khaibar'' (1989), an American guided-missile frigate in service with the Pakistani Navy from 1989 to 1993 *PNS Khaibar (1994), PNS ''Khaibar'' (1994), a British destroyer acquired by the Pakistani Navy in 1994 and designated as a ''Tariq''-class warship See also * Battle of Khaybar, a military engagement between the early Muslims and the Khaybari Jews in 628 CE * Ka-Bar, a combat knife first used by the United States military in 1942 * Khyber (other), a semi-homonym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaybar
KhaybarOther standardized Arabic transliterations: / . Anglicized pronunciation: , . ( ar, خَيْبَر, ) is an oasis situated some north of the city of Medina in the Medina Province of Saudi Arabia. Prior to the rise of Islam in the 7th century, the area had been inhabited by Arabian Jewish tribes until it fell to Muslim armies under Muhammad during the Battle of Khaybar in 628 CE. Climate History Pre-Islamic Before the advent of Islam in the 7th century CE, indigenous Arabs, as well as Jews, once made up the population of Khaybar, although when Jewish settlement in northern Arabia began is unknown.In a research conducted by David Samuel Margoliouth and published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in the last century, he points out the fact that the Jews of Khaybar and Yathrib (in Saudi-Arabia), as early as the 6th century CE when Jews still lived there - before being evicted to places in Syria and to the city of Al-Kufah in Iraq, did not differentiate b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber (Hunza)
Khaibar (Khaiber Khay-bar Khyber) is a village in the upper Hunza Valley of Gilgit–Baltistan in Pakistan. It is situated between Kirilgoz Peak () and Shanoz Peak(), below the Shaujerab Glacier, and just to the west of the Hunza River. Administratively the village governs an area of . Both Wakhi and Burushaski Burushaski (; ) is a language isolate spoken by Burusho people, who reside almost entirely in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, with a few hundred speakers in northern Jammu and Kashmir, India. In Pakistan, Burushaski is spoken by people in ... speakers live in the village. The village is mostly famous for its own law made by the people and the follow it by every mean. different families resides in the valley and two members from each families are the part of the governing bodies that governs the law and these members are responsible to regulate the law within the village, and is also famous for hunting of the mountain ibex. the hunting was banned for the local p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaibar-1
The Khaibar-1 ( ar, خيبر-1), also known as the Khyber-1, the M-302, or the B-302 is a Syrian-made 302 mm unguided artillery rocket. It is best known for being used by Hezbollah against targets in northern Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War, and has also been used in the Syrian Civil War. It is essentially a clone of the Chinese WS-1 rocket. The Khaibar-1 is significant because the rocket has a 100 km range, longer than the BM-21 Grad rockets that make up most of the Hezbollah rocket force. It uses a unique Syrian-designed launcher and possibly a cluster munition or fragmentation warhead.William M. Arkin, Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War (2007) p. 34 The rocket is easily recognizable by its fixed tail fins. The rocket is often misidentified as Iranian or as a variant of Iranian Fajr-3 or Fajr-5 rockets. Usage The rocket's first use was being fired at the Israeli city of Afula during the 2006 Lebanon War. In early August 2006, Khaibar-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KH-2002
The KH-2002 ''Khaybar'' ( fa, خیبر ) is an Iranian-designed assault rifle, derived from the DIO S 5.56 assault rifle (an unlicensed clone of the Chinese Norinco CQ, which in turn is an unlicensed copy of the American M16) and further developed by Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO). It was designed in 2001 with samples produced in 2003 with the eventual production of the KH2002 commencing in 2004. It is similar in appearance to the FAMAS. Its improved version, released in 2009, was known as "Sama" ( fa, سما). History In the early 2000s, Iran was testing prototypes of G3 battle rifles made under license for the Iranian military in bullpup configurations to test their feasibility. This was later dropped in favor of a similar weapon that's chambered in 5.56 NATO. According to a Global Security Studies report, it was observed that Venezuela received 18,000 KH-2002s sold to them by Iran in 2007. In the same year, an investigation was carried out in Uruguay in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PNS Khaibar (1956)
HMS ''Cadiz'' was a of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Battle of Cádiz (1810), Battle of Cádiz, in which the French besieged the Spanish town in 1810, which was eventually lifted in 1812 after the French defeat at the Battle of Salamanca. She was transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1956, and commissioned as PNS ''Khaibar''. She was sunk off her home port of Karachi by the Indian Navy missile boat, during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. History in the Royal Navy ''Cadiz'' was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. She was launched on 16 September 1944 and commissioned on 12 April 1946. Upon her commissioning, ''Cadiz'' joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Home Fleet. In 1947, ''Cadiz'', along with her sister ship , escorted the aircraft carrier to Norway, where the small group visited a variety of ports in the Scandinavian country. In 1950, ''Cadiz'' along with many other vessels of the Home Fleet, including three aircraft carriers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PNS Khaibar (1989)
USS ''Brooke'' (FFG-1) was the lead ship of her class of guided missile frigates in the United States Navy from 1962 to 1988. She was named for John Mercer Brooke. As of 2021, no other ship in the United States Navy has been named ''Brooke''. Laid down on 19 December 1962 by Lockheed Ship Building, ''Brooke'' was launched on 19 July 1963 and commissioned on 12 March 1966. Originally designated DEG-1, she was redesignated FFG-1 in 1975. She served in the Pacific Fleet and was homeported in San Diego, California. Pakistan service Following decommissioning Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from an active status, and may refer to: Infrastructure * Decommissioned offshore * Decommissioned highway * Greenfield status of former industrial sites * Nuclear decommi ... in 1988, she was transferred to Pakistan on 1 February 1989. Renamed ''Khaibar'', she was returned to the United States on 14 November 1993 and sold for scrap on 29 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PNS Khaibar (1994)
PNS ''Khaibar'' (DDG-183) is the currently in active duty in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy since 1994. Prior to be commissioned in the service of the Pakistan Navy in 1994, she served in the Royal Navy, formerly designated as as a general purpose frigate. The modernization and midlife upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi reclassified her status as guided missile destroyer. Service history Acquisition, construction, and modernization Designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at Glasgow in Scotland, she was laid down on 28 September 1972, and was launched on 5 February 1974. She commissioned on 29 July 1976 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as . During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with Argentina. On 1 March 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom and sailed from the Port of Plymouth to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Khaybar
The Battle of Khaybar ( ar, غَزْوَة خَيْبَر, label=Classical Arabic, Arabic) was fought in 628 Common Era, CE between the early Muslims led by Muhammad and Jews living in Khaybar, an oasis located 150 km from Medina in the northwestern Arabian Peninsula (present-day Saudi Arabia), as part of the early Muslim conquests. Jewish tribes reportedly arrived in the Hejaz region in the wake of the Jewish–Roman wars and introduced agriculture, putting them in a culturally, economically and politically dominant position. According to Islamic sources, Muslim troops marched on Khaybar and engaged the Jews, who had barricaded themselves in forts after breaching an agreement with the Muslims. History Islamic sources accuse the Jews of Khaybar of having plotted to unite with other Jewish tribes from Wadi al-Qura, Banu Wadi Qurra, Tayma and Fadak as well as with the Ghatafan (an Tribes of Arabia, Arab tribe) to mount an attack on Medina. Scottish people, Scottish histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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