Saab 340 AEW "Erieye" Eyes on The Sky of The Royal Thai Air Force


Saab 340 AEW Erieye (all photos : Phairat Tonguthaisri- TAF)

After decades of trying, last month in December 2010 the early warning plane Saab 340 AEW and Saab 340B model transport aircraft was landing at Wing 7 Surat Thani.

This is one of history's new Royal Thai Air Force because the Saab 340 AEW became the first pre-warning aircraft of the Royal Thai Air Force, and the Royal Thai Air Force is just one of the two Southeast Asian nation of Singapore Air Force aircraft, ordered the advance early warning.



Saab 340 AEW is a virtual eye on the sky to the Royal Thai Air Force, and the army of other Thai military with the ability to detect the radar system Erieye installed on the fuselage, which provides a radius of detection beyond 350 miles to make it able to detect the target and the target in the air on the surface and on the ground, such as aircraft, unmanned aircraft, ship or ground units, and can detect targets more than one thousand simultaneous targets.



The Saab 340 AEW can also send the information to be detected within the immediate unit commander. The commander can see the movement of the battle fully and timely.



On the afternoon of February 8 during a visit to the availability of operational and arrangements authorized fighter a Gripen's Wing 7 Surat Thani TAF have the opportunity to monitor and record Saab 340 AEW during practice mission in the sky. We captured some opportunity to leave all of you.

sosej

Maybe we should buy 18 F/A-18E and ask US for discount on E2 or E3 as part of the package.

How about E2D for consideration? 
a good deal, but better put it in one package instead
French with a little bit of South African! 
rojak at the best!
errr: please screen-caps for future reference 

Beechcraft AT-6 for JTACs Training?


The RAAF is considering purchasing up to six Hawker Beechcraft AT-6 light-attack aircraft that would be used for training joint terminal attack controllers. (photo : Airforce Technology)

According to industry officials quoted in Inside the Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force is considering purchasing as many as six Hawker Beechcraft AT-6 light-attack aircraft that would be used for training joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs) responsible for calling in air strikes.

The RAAF currently uses four aircraft at its Forward Air Control Development Unit; however, there is talk of the service acquiring between four and six replacement aircraft, according to Jim Maslowski, Hawker Beechcraft’s president of US and international government business.

“They have a dire need to be able to qualify their JTACs,” Derek Hess, the company’s director of light attack, said during a February 1 telephone interview.

“You can certainly do that more affordably with an AT-6 than you can with one of their Hornets, or their Super Hornets or an F-35 down the road.


The AT-6 is fully equipped with six weapons / stores locations and can be armed with a variety of weapons including guided missiles, laser / GPS-guided bombs and 2.75in rocket pods. (photo : Airforce Technology)

That’s one instance where having common digital signatures with existing platforms, in our case like the A-10 and F-16, make that really a seamless way of doing business.”

The company has also pitched the baseline T-6 trainer as part of the RAAF’s Air 5428 program, an effort to acquire new trainer aircraft.

Raytheon Australia is the prime contractor and has teamed with BAE Systems Australia.
The companies expect the RAAF to release a request for tender later in 2011.

“The AT-6 piece would fit very nicely because if they pick the T-6 [for the training replacement], then you have a common inventory,” Maslowski said.

In addition to Australia, there has been international interest in the aircraft, according to Maslowski.
“We’re in conversation with Australia and there is interest in...other nations as well,” he said, declining to name the countries.

sosej

UPACARA PEMAKAIAN PANGKAT PEGAWAI KANAN TLDM



Pada 10 Feb 2011, Upacara Pemakaian Pangkat Pegawai Kanan TLDM telah dilaksanakan dengan jayanya bertempat di KD SRI GOMBAK dan disempurnakan oleh Yang Berbahagia Laksamana Tan Sri Abdul Aziz bin Hj Jaafar, Panglima Tentera Laut. Upacara yang penuh bersejarah ini menyaksikan empat orang Pegawai Kanan Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) dinaikkan pangkat dari Laksamana Pertama kepada Laksamana Muda.

Pegawai Kanan TLDM yang dinaikkan pangkat adalah Laksamana Muda Dato’ Tan Eng Seng (Komandan Maktab Pertahanan Angkatan Tentera), Laksamana Muda Dato’ Anuwi bin Hassan (Panglima Wilayah Laut 2), Laksamana Muda Dato’ Abdul Ghani bin Othman (Panglima Bantuan) dan Laksamana Muda Dato’ Hj Khairuddin bin Khalid (Panglima Sistem Armada).

Selain itu, turut dinaikkan pangkat dari Kepten TLDM kepada Laksamana Pertama ialah Laksamana Pertama Wah Yuen Mei yang kini menjawat jawatan sebagai Asisten Ketua Staf (AKS) Tadbir. (Sekretariat, Markas Tentera Laut). TLDM turut mencipta sejarah pada hari ini apabila dua orang Pegawai Kanan TLDM dari kaum Cina telah dinaikkan pangkat dalam satu majlis dan Laksamana Muda  Dato’ Tan Eng Seng juga merupakan Pegawai Kanan TLDM pertama dari bangsa Cina yang dinaikkan pangkat ke Laksamana Muda.

Kenaikan pangkat bagi the Navy People ini dilihat seiring dengan amanah dan tanggungjawab untuk terus berkhidmat dengan gigih, cemerlang dan berintegriti di dalam organisasi TLDM. TLDM akan terus melaksanakan usaha-usaha untuk meningkat kualiti hidup setiap warga the Navy People.

Setiap individu yang layak dan menunjukkan prestasi yang cemerlang akan dipertimbang untuk kenaikan  pangkat dan peningkatan kerjaya. TLDM akan terus menawarkan satu kerjaya yang dilihat challenging but rewarding.

Sejak 1 Apr 2008 hingga pada hari ini, seramai 1220 pegawai telah dinaikkan pangkat dan sejumlah 437 daripadanya telah disahkan ke dalam pangkat sebenar.

sosej

Source

Future butthurt from Tony Pua I guess~ 

Just my assumption btw, 27 PV Programme

1st batch = 6 Patrol Vessel

2nd batch = 6 LCS@Corvette

3rd batch = 6 *Frigate "type 26"

4th batch = 6 Guided Missile Destroyer "type 45??"

5th batch = 3 Aegis

CCTV: Chinese HQ-9 Anti-Missile

This news was reported by CCTV on 2010.4.24.
This news shows HQ9 use Kinetic Missiles warhead(Hit-to-Kill).

Australia and NZ Expand Defense Cooperation


HMNZS Canterbury amphibious ship (all photos : RNZN)

WELLINGTON - New Zealand Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and his Australian counterpart, Stephen Smith, held their annual meeting Feb. 10 here and announced that Australia will have access to New Zealand's amphibious ship HMNZS Canterbury through a joint forces initiative.

"Today's meeting provided both countries with the opportunity to discuss strategic defense and security priorities in the region … and to give our respective defense organizations the strategic guidance they need for our essential and growing bilateral cooperation in 2011," Smith said.

The ministers asked secretaries in their respective departments to produce a joint report by July 31, detailing preliminary proposals to improve bilateral engagement structures and strengthen strategic bilateral exchanges.

The report is expected to detail proposals to ensure cost-efficient cooperation, notably complementary military capabilities, and the efficient implementation of ANZAC policies.

The ministers noted that the Pacific-focused Ready Response Force (RRF), initiated in September 2009, will be finalized in March, with New Zealand Defence Force personnel to be placed at the Deployable Joint Forces Headquarters in Brisbane.

"We have agreed that, to maintain a robust capability to respond to regional contingencies, the Australian and New Zealand defense forces will jointly develop and exercise plans under the RRF for a common response to contingencies, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief," Mapp said.



The ministers also announced the sharing of key capabilities, including HMNZS Canterbury, as part of the RRF banner, with a view to early opportunities to exercise planning functions and amphibious interoperability.

"HMNZS Canterbury's amphibious-lift capability will be particularly important in our region over the next few years [as] the Royal Australian Navy faces challenges in amphibious capability," Smith said.

"The integration of HMNZS Canterbury in this way is a practical example of ANZAC cooperation which can benefit our region, particularly in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief," he said.

The ministers also highlighted the successful reinvigoration of the Australia-New Zealand Airlift Agreement, an initiative developed at the previous defense ministers meeting in Sydney in 2009.

As well, Mapp announced that New Zealand will provide a maritime surveillance adviser to the Cook Islands in support of the patrol boat given to that country by Australia.

In addition, both countries will expand their cooperation in English language training for regional militaries, starting with Vietnam, to increase the number of personnel eligible for training courses in New Zealand and Australia.
sosej

Russia To Boost Defenses On Kuril Islands: Medvedev


Kuril Islands map

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Feb. 9 ordered the deployment of extra weaponry on the Kuril islands claimed by Japan, escalating tensions in a dispute that has festered since World War II.

Bluntly describing the Pacific islands as an "inseparable" part of Russia's territory and a strategic Russian region, Medvedev also ordered an expansion of its presence on the remote archipelago.

His comments represented a drastic sharpening of Moscow's rhetoric in the dispute with Tokyo after Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan called Medvedev's unprecedented visit to the islands in November an "unforgivable outrage".

The remarks are also sure to create an icy atmosphere when Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara visits Moscow on Feb. 11 for previously scheduled talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

"The additional weapons which will be deployed there must be sufficient and modern to ensure the security of these islands, which are an inseparable part of the Russian Federation," Medvedev said.

"We will make every necessary effort to strengthen our presence on the Kuril islands. This is our strategic region," he said at a meeting with Russia's ministers of defense and regional development shown on state television.

"Ensure that all the necessary decisions are carried out, the deliveries (of weapons) are realized and all the necessary reorganizational measures are fulfilled," Medvedev told Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

Serdyukov, who also angered Japan when he visited the islands last week, replied that the defense ministry would review what additional arms were needed on the Kurils and would report back at the end of February.

"We will prepare a program by the end of the month. Now we understand what weapons need to be there. We will take a decision by the end of month," Serdyukov was quoted as saying.

A defense ministry source told the ITAR-TASS news agency that the Mistral class warships Russia is buying from France would be used by the Russian Pacific Fleet "including for the protection of the South Kurils".

The deputy head of the defense committee for Russia's lower house of parliament, Igor Barinov, said Medvedev's announcement was a response to "anti-Russian hysteria" in Japan.

"This decision is mainly of a political nature and tells Japan that there is going to be no revision of the results of World War II and it will cool hotheads in Tokyo," he told the RIA Novosti news agency.

The Kurils, which lie just north of Japan's Hokkaido Island, have been controlled by Moscow since they were seized by Soviet troops in 1945. Their status remains a major problem in Moscow-Tokyo relations.

The dispute surrounds the southernmost four islands - known in Russian as Iturup, Shikotan, Habomai and Kunashir - which are still claimed by Tokyo and collectively known in Japan as the Northern Territories.

Japan does not contest Russia's sovereignty over the northernmost islands but has repeatedly demanded the return of the other four. Serdykov last week angered Japan by visiting Iturup and Kunashir.

The row also prevented Russia and Japan from signing a peace treaty to formally end World War II and stymied attempts to bring bilateral economic relations to their full potential.

The islanders - buffeted by storm winds and often battling fog - eke out a tough existence with fishing the main industry. Medvedev called for greater tourism and foreign investment.

"The main thing is that the people who live there should feel they are no worse off than those on the mainland," he said.

Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said ahead of Maehara's visit that now was "the perfect time to return our relations to their normal track."

But he added: "First and foremost, we expect our Japanese colleagues to fundamentally change their attitude towards Russia."

sosej

Dzirhan, JDW correspondent defends M'sian Govt RM6B SGPV-LCS procurement 2011
credited to mcwood of militaryphotos.net

Defence analysts destroying Tony Pua's credibility.beautiful..

Canberra Class LHD Siap Diluncurkan


HMAS Canberra (LHD-01) siap untuk diluncurkan pada akhir februari atau awal maret 2011 (all photos : Navantia/RAN)

Dua LHD pesanan Australia untuk konstruksi lambung (hull) dikerjakan oleh Navantia, di Ferrol, Spanyol, sedangkan konstruksi atas (superstucture) akan dikerjakan oleh BAE Systems Australia (dahulu Tenix Defence) di Williamstown, Victoria, Australia. Kapal tersebut diberi nama HMAS Canberra LHD-01 dan HMAS Adelaide LHD-02.



Pada mulanya HMAS Canberra LHD-01 akan diluncurkan pada Maret 2011 namun besar kemungkinan peluncuran kapal ini akan dimajukan pada tanggal 27 Februari 2011. Untuk selanjutnya pengerjaan kapal dari dok kering akan dialihkan ke dok basah. Lambung Canberra diharapkan tiba di Williamstown pada 2012, sedang lambung Adelaide pada 2014.



Canberra dan Adelaide merupakan nama ke-3 bagi kapal Angkatan Laut Australia, Canberra-01 dan Adelaide-01 merupakan kapal perusak/penjelajah D-33 dengan berat 10.000 ton, sedangkan Canberra-02 dan Adelaide-02 merupakan fregat FFG-02 dan FFG-01 dengan berat 4.100 ton.



Canberra class LHD merupakan kapal serbu amfibi dengan bobot 27.000 ton akan merupakan kapal perang terbesar yang pernah dioperasikan oleh Angkatan Laut Australia. Sebelumnya Angkatan Laut Australia pernah mengoperasikan kapal induk HMAS Melbourne dengan bobot 20.000 ton. Kedua kapal ini akan menggantikan Kanimbla class yaitu HMAS Kanimbla dan HMAS Manoora.

Dengan kapal ini Angkatan Laut Australia akan dapat melakukan proyeksi kekuatan untuk serangan amfibi, dukungan udara, transportasi dan pusat komando. Dek kapal mampu untuk mendaratkan 6 helikopter dan secara teoritis dengan ski jump 13 derajat yang dimilikinya maka kapal ini dapat mengoperasikan pesawat V/STOL milik negara sekutu Australia.

Secara umum kapal ini dapat membawa 1.000 pasukan, dapat membawa 16-24 helikopter, 4 LCM (landing craft medium), dan 150 kendaraan termasuk MBT M-1 Abrams. kapal dapat melaju dengan kecepatan 20,5 knot dan menempuh jarak 15.000 km dengan kecepatan 15 knot atau 17.130 km dengan kecepatan 12 knot.
sosej