I'm late, but I'm already unfit for the push-up punishments because of my left arm injury last year, sirs.

Quoting our dear PM on #tanyanajib: "Pirates are best in the sea, ninjas are best on the land."

Of course, he doesn't say anything about our PASKALs are actually ninjas in secret. The next thing the world knows, "Oh? Those pirates got taken down. Who did it... I can't remember..."

... Wasn't a ninja's original purpose is to serve like a spec ops unit in feudal Japan...

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jan 25 2011, 04:31 PM

If India's army are made of all men like him, the world is screwed.

More like "The British borrowed THEIR OWN FLAG from me"

So it's confirmed that NTW-20 is in the armory. Which is a delight for me, but not sure about some *cough*others*cough*

Airstrikes has begun it seems...

For once, the world suddenly starts to respect the French again, and I find it funny.

Sources say that this is a rebel fighter shot down, some sources said it's shot down by friendlies while others say it's Ghadaffi's force which took it down.

Well, it's an aging MiG-23 though. Frenchies reported one A2A victory but no information on what they hit. Some say it's not that pic of the MiG-23 since this is before any coalition aircraft even sortied.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 20 2011, 10:29 AM

Nope. The pilot died because the chute failed to deploy. Well, as you said, the altitude's too low for a chute to deploy properly.

Not talking about the president, and I can't care less about that.

I'm talking about the country of France as a whole.

That and Gadaffi doesn't want anyone to fly it.

Probably he's afraid that if they do, there will be defectors just like how some pilots defected.

Right. And why us? Do you really think we have the capability to give CAS en masse?

We can't give them ground support via foot soldiers or SOF (in which we specialize in), they don't want it. What they desperately needed is a No-Fly Zone (stopping Gadaffi from continuing airstrikes on rebel positions) and some tank-busting on Gadaffi hardware (since these are causing the most problems in the rebels' advance), and you think we can just jump in with our MKMs and F/A-18s? How much do you think it's going to cost?

Sure we might have the capabilities but what we lack is the sheer logistics capability. You think flying to Libya is like flying to Sabah and Sarawak? The French flew straight from their AFB in France for their first strike y'know.

The Western nations can afford it but we are on the other side of the spectrum, bud. Even then they still need to consider the costing of firing a single ordinance towards Loyalist tanks and air defense systems, and there's already a big shock at the Yanks' side themselves at the fact their military launched 110 Tomahawks where each Tomahawk costs them $600,000 to operate. Do the math.

Also pro-democracy rebels celebrating the aftermath of UN airstrike on Gadaffi's armor positions.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 21 2011, 11:29 AM

No. 2 needs more resources, especially if the already available resources are wrecked by the retreating enemy.

It'll be worse if the enemy holds a scorched earth doctrine.

definitely the most effective but also means unless you are sure the territory holds sufficient resources to back up your occupation, it'll be the most risky, and you might be in for a pincer counterattack from outside the territory.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 23 2011, 10:04 PM

If there's something that can be considered a close counterpart to Tomahawks, it'll be India's Brahmos missiles.

The Russians used Su-33 and they operated on Admiral Kuznetsov.

If China can manage a larger vessel than the Kuznetsov, I don't see why they can't put these on it.