According to ma,
We are going to get new xband sat soon.
We could be getting attack heli too.

Zamboanga Siege


Two soldiers lay wounded after a mortar landed near them as the government troopers continue their assault
at Muslim rebels who have taken scores of hostages and used them as human shields for the fifth straight day
Friday Sept. 13, 2013


WOUNDED SOLDIER A government trooper tends to a comrade who was wounded by mortar
fire on the fifth day of the standoff between government forces and Moro rebels in Zamboanga City on Friday


RED CROSS IN CROSSFIRE Red Cross volunteers carry a colleague who was wounded when
an M79 grenade exploded near a Red Cross van during a military assault on Moro rebels holed
up in a residential area in Zamboanga City on Friday


A sniper of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force takes his position from a building.


A military sniper on a rooftop, along with a spotter, fires back at MNLF snipers in Barangay
Sta. Catalina on Friday, September 13

Apart from fending off bullets, some soldiers in Mindanao are also apparently fending off hunger.

In fact, some military men fighting off rogue members of the Moro National Liberation Front are supposedly begging for food, Eyrhil Tom Bulahan of Zamboanga claimed.

“Bai? naa moy kanun or bahaw bsan gamay lang wala pa man gud mi nagkaon ganina buntag pa and walay tulog (Friend, do you have rice? Even leftovers, just a bit, because we haven’t eaten since this morning and we haven’t had sleep),” Bulahan quoted the soldier as saying.

He even has a photo, which is now viral, to prove it.

“Ang gusto nga nila noong una, bumili sa tindahan namin. Pero nung sinabi kong sarado kami, humingi na lang ng kanin (They initially wanted to buy from our store. But when we told them we were closed, he begged for rice),” Bulahan told Yahoo Southeast Asia.

He said soldiers divided what little rice he shared with them and paired it with dried fish. Even soldiers’ water supply is scarce, Bulahan said, adding that many of the households in his neighborhood have put out water containers outside their doors.

“Kawawa talaga sila. Nangangayayat, nagugutom, inaantok pero patuloy ang pakikipagbakbakan (They’re in a pitiful state. They’re thin, hungry and sleep-deprived but they keep on fighting),” Bulahan noted.

Outside Zamboanga City, Filipinos online have also raised concern over soldiers’ dismal condition. Some even tweeted the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

“Hi, we saw a pic of what the soldiers ate for lunch - is there any way we can help out?” a Twitter user dubbed “aggrieved citizen” said.



makan nasik bungkus je ke bang?

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/soldiers-in-zambo...tml?clear=cache
they're so poor they can't even handle such simple logistics that we always take for granted

even at best of times they rely on consumer-produced foodstuffs (sardin dalam tin, etc). seems that they have no military ration of their own. no wonder they always have turncoats inside their ranks

According to ma,
We are going to get new xband sat soon.
We could be getting attack heli too.

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/soldiers-in-zambo...tml?clear=cache
they're so poor they can't even handle such simple logistics that we always take for granted

even at best of times they rely on consumer-produced foodstuffs (sardin dalam tin, etc). seems that they have no military ration of their own. no wonder they always have turncoats inside their ranks

logistic is very important,

this kind of thing cannot be taken for granted!

We need chinook to enhance our logistic support several fold.

We need chinook to enhance our logistic support several fold.

According to ma,
We are going to get new xband sat soon.
We could be getting attack heli too.

Tak payah rangsum tempur nasi bungkus pun dah cukup 

Hmm.. should we consider heavy-lift helis?

kalau tak ada chinook, kita bina chinook!! 

Tiger? how come we no reconsdier the Rooivalk?
sempoiiiiii...
what about those huge Russian-made heavy lift helis?

Because rooivalk is dead.
They cease it development.
To date only 12 units were built.

china heli not bad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23991769

Looks like we will be seeing some interesting attack helicopter in the 2015 LIMA.

However, looking at the track record, after the 2015 LIMA, the attack helicopter will fall back to the A109 LOH.