btw need ask some question

SG have submarine??

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-03/indo...y-power/4666748

Indonesian president vows to outgun Australia

Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says his country should strive to have a more powerful military than Australia.

About 16,000 Indonesian troops are preparing for joint military exercises in East Java.

Meeting with military commanders, Mr Yudhoyono told them that Indonesia's military should be bigger and more modern than countries like Australia, Singapore and Malaysia.

Indonesia's military boasts 470,000 active troops, while the Australian Defence Force has just over 80,000 full-time personnel and reservists..

It has also embarked on a military upgrade program, building warships and drones, as well buying fighter jets, helicopters and rockets.

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p/s: any indon members can id the missile at the background. terima kaseh

1 single dig,despite with his highspeed F88 rifle and his top-of-the-line plate carrier, won't win against 1000+ bamboo-armed indon mobs screaming "durka durka"

the way i see it, indon got no issue crossing the ocean they got a lot Makassar-class LPD

and their navy are well armed as well, from what i understand they got at least 6 sigma class frigate about to add 3 nakhoda class frigate maybe this year. They have about 10 frigate in total

what is the function of Marines actually? looks the same as what army does..army can borrow transportation from navy to assault beaches..

btw, 'Combat Countdown' in Discovery Channel listed PT-91Twardy as no. 7 in the top 10 best military assets.."combining the best of Western and Russian tech into one compact tank..", they say..

mehh..the show ridiculous anyway...when i say top 10 military assets, they literally combine air, land, and sea assets into the top 10..ridiculous to combine land, sea and air assets into a same list as they have different roles and needs..

I believe that was the Australian newspaper wanting to juice up the issue...but still why a demonstration of invasion capability...in the face of peaceful neighbours...when they have a lot of internal security challenges in their hands:

Communal and religious violence
possible relapse of GAM (Free Acheh Movement)
Jemaah Islamiyah (e.g bombing at JW Merriot and Carlton)
West Papua
Natural disaster: flooding, landslides, earthquakes (that's why they need more transport aircraft)
trafficking
maintaining EEZ

as I mentioned...it was power projection...specifically...overlapping territorial claim....i.e. Ambalat....and dissatisfaction about Sipadan-Ligatan

This is entirely my opinion....maybe I am wrong

btw  you must consider SBY, a former general, was speaking at Latihan Gabungan 2013 in front of a large military crowd and, in the lead up to the 2014 presidential election

What about Leclerc ?

the carrier look nice, but how come cost billion $. just a pieces of stells

Operating cost also, it travels in a complete set of a battle group or the smallest one, a strike group.

sorry to say in united states also got

"'According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,' Rumsfeld admitted. $2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America."
  -- CBS News, 1/29/02, U.S. Secretary of Defense raises evidence of government and military corruption

"A GAO report found Defense inventory systems so lax that the U.S. Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units. When military leaders were scrambling to find enough chemical and biological warfare suits to protect U.S. troops, the department was caught selling these suits as surplus on the Internet 'for pennies on the dollar.'"
  -- San Francisco Chronicle, 5/18/03

"The Defense Department spent an estimated $100 million for airline tickets that were not used over a six-year period and failed to seek refunds even though the tickets were reimbursable."
  -- New York Times, 6/9/04

Steven Spielberg To Direct American Sniper Movie, Starring Bradley Cooper

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Steven Spielberg will be directing a movie adaptation of Chris Kyle’s autobiography that will star Bradley Cooper …

"  Steven Spielberg has found his next directing project: an adaptation of American Sniper, the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, which is set up at Warner Bros.
    Bradley Cooper is attached to star and has been developing the project as a producer.
    A first-quarter 2014 start date is being targeted."

ST Kinetics Compact Personal Weapon and new CIS-40 AGL MK2 .

http://sadefensejournal.com/wp/?p=1876

If I am not mistaken,  sme ordnance manufacturers it, but it is designed by a Russian designer??

QBZ-95 Barrel cepat panas tak sesuai Malaysia Weather

I prefer we take a look on XM-8 instead.
get ride of the heat problem we are good to go.

sad..xm8 only prototype & sink after the 2008 economy.
It replace by HK 416 or Mk18.

I thought PASKAL is using it(or testing it)now?
ATM mainly using Steyr , M16 and M4 standard issue Rifle only?
are those Steyr and M16 being replace by M4 rifle?

copy rite for steyr expired. Malaysia bought the copy rite of M4, sad, M4 faced very bad problem during in desert environment.
That y US work with HK jemman to produce XM8, but stop by the crisis economi. Endup the pick the HK416 from jerman, MK16 from  Belgium, or the MK18 from USA.

M4 will slowly fully withdraw from USMC.

http://defense-update.com/20130314_taiwan-...th-fighter.html

I have my doubts.

I think its 6 days based on simulation some years back. Though i think effective conquer wont be so easy since taiwan's heavily built urban jungle.