Hey guys, I'm planning to go to the parade at Dataran this weekend, but have no idea of where the best vantage point is. Any of you guys here have any brilliant suggestions?

Oh, since this is the military thread, maybe I'll share some shots I took earlier this year at LIMA.

yeap i seen this before and i believe it is a good idea if the ESSCOM actually invest in this.
but in the end of the day will the goverment be willing to go all out on just some pirates and "Terrorist"?
MPA would be a better choice i believe preventing is better then curing

nice picture there     

I also will be going, but I will be snapping pictures on static display

heard it from somewhere..tho I would really prefered S300...

Hey guys, I'm planning to go to the parade at Dataran this weekend, but have no idea of where the best vantage point is. Any of you guys here have any brilliant suggestions?

Oh, since this is the military thread, maybe I'll share some shots I took earlier this year at LIMA.

woi d4rk, lama aku tak nampak ko dlm TW sama Thai punya server COD!

U.S. F-22 stealth fighter pilot taunted Iranian F-4 Phantom combat planes over the Persian Gulf

Sep 19 2013 - 10 Comments

Earlier this year, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little, said that an IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) F-4 Phantom combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 drone flying in international airspace off Iran.

As we reported back then, one of the two F-4 Phantom jets came to about 16 miles from the UAV but broke off pursuit after they were broadcast a warning message by two American planes escorting the Predator.

The episode happened in March 2013, few months after a two Sukhoi Su-25 attack planes operated by the Pasdaran (informal name of the IRGC – the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution) attempted to shoot down an American MQ-1 flying a routine surveillance flight in international airspace some 16 miles off Iran, the interception of the unmanned aircraft failed. After this attempted interception the Pentagon decided to escort the drones involved in ISR (intelligence surveillance reconnaissance)  missions with fighter jets (either F-18 Hornets with the CVW 9 embarked on the USS John C. Stennis whose Carrier Strike Group is currently in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility or F-22 Raptors like those deployed to Al Dhafra in the UAE.

New details about the episode were recently disclosed by Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh who on Sept. 17 not only confirmed that the fighter jets providing HVAAE (High Value Air Asset Escort) were F-22 stealth fighters but also said that:

“He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said ‘you really ought to go home’”

If the episode went exactly as Welsh described it, it was something more similar to Maverick’s close encouter with Russian Mig-28s in Top Gun movie than a standard interception.

It would be interesting to know how the Raptor managed to remain stealth (did they use their radar? were they vectored by an AWACS? etc.) and why it was not the E-2 most probably providing Airborne Early Warning in the area to broadcast the message to persuade the F-4 to pursuit the drone before the Iranian Phantoms and the U.S. Raptors got too close in a potentially dangerous and tense situation?

Anyway the U.S. pilot achieved to scare the Iranian pilots off and save the drone. A happy ending worthy of an action movie.

Hey guys, I'm planning to go to the parade at Dataran this weekend, but have no idea of where the best vantage point is. Any of you guys here have any brilliant suggestions?

Oh, since this is the military thread, maybe I'll share some shots I took earlier this year at LIMA.

Guys, will be making it early to the dataran merdeka this saturday. Was wondering kf there are any special spots i can chop early in the morning.

Focused mainly on the flypast actually. Missed the roar of those MKMs, but wouldnt mind a good spot for the parade also. Anyone else going?