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F-22 crashes at Tyndall, pilot safe

The US Air Force confirms that a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor crashed at 15:30 local time on 15 November, as it was returning to Tyndall AFB, Florida.

The pilot ejected "safely" from the F-22 and is being evaluated for injuires by base medical staff, the USAF says. Tyndall is an F-22 training base, but the pilot was not a student, the USAF confirms.

The crash occurred about 0.2nm (0.4km) east of the drone runway at Tyndall and near Highway 98, which was closed briefly while hazardous materials units responded.

It is the first F-22 crash since a fatal incident in November 2010 which killed Capt Jeff Haney and led to a series of investigations and groundings over glitches and perceived faults in the stealth fighter's oxygen system.

"There is nothing to indicate that it is related to that," the USAF says.

The service will convene an accident investigation board to determine the cause of the crash.

Until the Tyndall crash, the F-22 fleet had completed 21,000 sorties without the loss of an aircraft. The USAF had removed nearly all of the operating restrictions on the type imposed after the November 2010 crash, with the exception of high-altitude flying above 40,000ft (12,200m).

The latest crash reduces the USAF inventory of F-22s to 182 aircraft, with the last serial number delivered from Lockheed earlier this year.

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Tentera Malaysia, Singapura mula eksesais ‘Semangat Bersatu’
16 November 2012

JOHOR BARU, 16 Nov – Pasukan tentera darat Malaysia dan Singapura memulakan Eksesais Semangat Bersatu siri 18/2012 hari ini, bertempat di Padang Kawad 10 Rejimen Askar Melayu Diraja, Kem Majidee di sini.

Eksesais sehingga 22 Nov itu disertai 923 pegawai dan anggota tentera darat Malaysia serta 144 dari Singapura, dan  dirasmi secara bersama oleh Timbalan Panglima Tentera Darat Lt. Jen. Datuk Seri Panglima Ahmad Hasbullah Mohd Nawawi dan Ketua Staf Am Tentera Darat Singapura, Brig. Jen. Tung Yui Fai.

Eksesais itu merupakan latihan bilateral tahunan yang dilaksana untuk menjalin hubungan baik antara kedua-dua negara selain membolehkan kedua-dua pasukan berkongsi pengetahuan dan pengalaman.

Eksesais juga menguji kemampuan dan kesiapsiagaan pasukan kedua-dua negara dalam menghadapi ancaman dan menilai kemahiran pegawai serta anggota yang terlibat dalam melaksanakan operasi ketenteraan mengikut teknik, taktik dan prosedur yang ditetapkan. – Bernama

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Arms race explodes as neighbours try to counter China

November 19, 2012

PHNOM PENH: An arms-buying spree across south-east Asia will be the elephant in the room when almost 20 world leaders meet in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, on Tuesday.

Defence spending across the region increased 13.5 per cent to $US25.4 billion ($24.5 billion) last year and was expected to rise to $US40 billion by 2016, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said.

Flush with economic success and wary of China's military expansion, countries are acquiring sophisticated sea- and air-based arsenals that include dozens of submarines that can operate in secret.

The institute said Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia had increased defence budgets by 66 per cent to 82 per cent from 2002 to last year.

Indonesia was buying submarines from South Korea and coastal radar systems from China and the US, Vietnam was getting submarines and combat jets from Russia and had acquired Israeli ballistic missiles, defence analysts said.

Vietnam's defence budget for this year is $US3.1 billion, a rise of 35 per cent over last year. The Philippines has a huge wish-list of equipment it wants from the US and is also approaching Japan, South Korea, France and Britain for defence acquisitions.

Singapore, already the fifth-largest weapons importing nation, looked like keeping its title as the region's biggest spender, allocating $US9.7 billion this year on defence, 24 per cent of its national budget. The city-state's purchases included combat jets from the US and submarines from Sweden.

Thailand was planning to buy submarines and warplanes from Sweden that would eventually be fitted with anti-ship missiles, while arms deliveries to Malaysia jumped eightfold over the five years to 2009.

For decades, much of south-east Asia spent little on weapons except guns and tanks to respond to internal threats. But they are now building their defence capabilities amid tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea and other squabbles that underscore the role of the East Asia Summit.

Leaders attending include the US President, Barack Obama, the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, and the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

Defence officials estimated 86 submarines would be added to regional fleets by 2020, 30 of which would belong to China, which already had the most.

Some Chinese nuclear submarines were expected to carry 12 sea-launched ballistic missiles and could eventually be equipped with multiple warheads.

A south-east Asia analyst from the Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of NSW, Carl Thayer, said the ''deployment of nuclear submarines, including ballistic missile submarines, will introduce a new geostrategic dimension to the regional balance of power''.

Professor Thayer said Chinese nuclear submarine deployments would attract continuing attention from the US Navy. He warned the arms buying spree could have a destabilising impact on regional security.

In a paper delivered in Vietnam at the weekend, Professor Thayer says ''south-east Asia is ripe for rivalry - but not armed conflict - due to the strategic mistrust between a rising and increasingly militarily powerful China and a US committed to maintaining the present balance of power''.

Senior US officials said Mr Obama's trip to Cambodia, the first by a US president, would reinforce the ''pivot'' of US security forces to Asia and the Pacific. The strategy is seen as a counterweight to China, which is aggressively asserting its claim to almost all the South China Sea. Parts of the area are also claimed by the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam.

In his paper, Professor Thayer says the ''most disturbing'' trend in defence spending is China's growing reliance on citizen fishing fleets and paramilitary forces gathering in a disputed area to assert Chinese jurisdiction.

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