17 new boats? good

with rumors saying that around 30 of them mundu mofos are moving from jolo to cause trouble during christmas, the news is really good to hear

hope them mundus are blasted from the sea before they have any chance to land on the shore

I like the mentality & the policy to make every man in singapore to be a soldier. Thats why bile sembang ngn diorng....everybody using military term sbb semua paham like DZ, RV etc... compare to PLKN. Till now I dont see the outcome. Even nak tembak M16 sorng 20 butir dh ramai tarik diri...parents complaint too dangerous...too violent.

Thales Australia receives fresh orders of Victorian-manufactured vehicle

Posted about 7 days ago

Thales Australia’s Bushmaster has received fresh export orders from Japan and Indonesia, with strong interest expressed by Libya, making the Aussie-made Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV) a rising star in the defence market.

According to a feature on The Telegraph, a total of 1045 units have been built at Thales’s factory at Bendigo in Victoria, which has 240 workers. Another 55 Bushmasters are set to come off the line by the end of 2015.

Sources say Japan has ordered 10 vehicles while Indonesia will take an initial order of three. Libya has expressed interest in between 100 and 400 of the 15-tonne armoured troop carrier.

Last week Thales Australia announced that it has signed a contract to supply 12 Bushmaster vehicles to the Jamaica Defence Force. A five-year support package is also included in the contract to ensure the highest levels of availability and performance.

Thales Australia CEO Chris Jenkins said the Jamaican Defence Force has been eyeing the Bushmaster for some time now and the company is now pleased to add them as an export customer.

“The Bushmasters are ideally suited for both internal security and humanitarian operations. The inclusion of the support package demonstrates the customer’s trust in us to deliver and maintain an effective capability over several years,” Mr Jenkins said in a press release.

“Once again, the confidence shown in Bushmaster’s ability to protect troops and save lives reflects very well on the skills of Australian industry, and the important role that Thales and the 120 companies in the Bushmaster supply chain play in providing a unique Australian capability in protected vehicles.”

In the span of its service in Afghanistan, no soldier has been reported killed while riding the Bushmaster. Its success can be attributed to the heavily armoured V-shaped hull that directs blast away from its occupants.

A single Bushmaster costs in excess of $500,000. According to the Telegraph report it can transport 10 troops, and can itself be transported in a C-130 Hercules aircraft. The vehicle is powered by a Caterpillar 224 kW turbo diesel engine with a range of more than 800km.

Ex Forging Sabre 2013: Delivering the Punch on the Battlefield

23rd Battalion, Singapore Artillery (23 SA) was put through the paces during the recent Exercise Forging Sabre (XFS). Equipped with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), 23 SA is capable of delivering serious punch on the battlefield.

We too suffer from 97 crisis.
if not because of that we would have 18 hornets.
then a major mismanagement in kedah class project.
Later we were struck by 2007/8 golbal crisis cancellation of lekui class bath 2, mpss and even sph. Sigh.
Currently indon on spending spree so nice.

having said that, i think we should study the possibility of building our own SPH and MLRS that will complement our current artillery inventory.

i'm sure guys at Hicom can get the blueprint for BM-21 grad easily. it's not that hard.

yes but the "hurr durr jiran beli kereta (kebal),kita pun kena beli kereta (kebal) gak"-thing is stupid. rather than going into spending spree (which we will see next year), i'd rather see we give more attention on smaller things. improving our grunts' kit, installation of radars in our frontiers, addition of new surveillence system,etcetc. everything is in place right now.

besides, we already have our own high-profile procument.don't expect we replace our aging equipments in one go. not to mention other capabilities that we are lacking right now

while waiting for another high-profile procurements, what we can do now is to improve our combat readiness and surveillence capability. since we going to get our own marine corps, expect the gomen to spend on it as well.

UAE Backs out of Typhoon Discussions

Dec. 19, 2013 - 01:59PM  | 
By ANDREW CHUTER and AWAD MUSTAFA  | 

LONDON AND DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has quit discussions with BAE Systems over the possible purchase of 60 Typhoon fighter jets, the company said.

BAE said in a statement Thursday that the Arabian Gulf state had informed the company it would not proceed with talks on a range of defense and security capabilities, including the Eurofighter Typhoon.

No reason for the scrapping of the talks has been given, but UAE sources said it was connected with easing of tensions in the Arabian Gulf region.

The British company has been leading talks for the Eurofighter consortium on a possible sale of the Typhoon to the UAE in competition with the Dassault Rafale and the Boeing F/A-18.

“BAE and the UK government have been in discussion with the UAE government regarding a range of defense and security capabilities including the potential supply of Typhoon aircraft. The UAE have advised that they have elected not to proceed with these proposals at this time,” the company said in a statement.

According to a UAE source close to the negotiations, the interim deal with Iran along with the direct diplomatic engagements the UAE has conducted have relaxed tensions between the gulf neighbors and contributed to the deal’s breakdown.

“At this point in time there is no need to acquire the weapons as our diplomatic efforts have succeeded,” the source said.

One industry source said the two sides had been unable to agree on price or close the gap on other aspects of the negotiations, including the industrial collaboration package.

“If they can find a solution to the problems, the door could still be open to Typhoon, but in the meantime I would expect France to re-energize its effort with the Rafale in the wake of losing in Brazil to the Gripen. It could also bring closer the day the UAE seeks to open a dialogue on the purchase of the F-35,” the source said.

In addition to the fighter talks, a defense agreement expected to be penned between the UK and the UAE has been put on hold regarding the UK assisting the UAE in marketing defense equipment to Europe, the source added.

The potential sale to UAE was a key export campaign in the Eurofighter consortium effort in the Middle East and elsewhere in an effort to keep production lines open beyond 2018.

Eurofighter partners include BAE, EADS and Finmeccanica.

The UAE originally preferred the Rafale but opened up the bidding to Typhoon and the F/A-18 after the two sides fell out over a range of issues.

In recent months, the Typhoon was reckoned to be ahead of its rivals in the bidding.

The Typhoon sales effort was part of a wider push by the British to boost defense relations with the UAE. The two sides have been negotiating a defense treaty, industrial collaboration and other investment opportunities.

The British Ministry of Defence declined to comment.

heard the kidnapped Taiwan citizen has been rescued? did we send our own spec ops to join forces with Pinoy's spec ops? or did the family paid the ransom?

Atrey says our vat69 is also involved, but I dunno they can go that far

But the news is actually first said by our IGP, which is strange
I tried to scan the usual pinoy news outlet they seem to not yet pick up the story

they are with the Special Task Force, but how is their involvement is unknown!
still waiting for news update!

added
update by KPN

@KBAB51: Syabas Special Task Force @PDRMsia for your tireless effort in securing the safety of kidnapped Taiwanese victim. Allah jua yg membalas jasa

probably classified..great job PDRM~ never doubt their skills~ 
still, why VAT69 involve in the issue?
i thought VAT69 is commonly for handling internal affairs while GGK, PASKAL, PASKAU usually handle foreign threat.. 

considering that the pinoys dun have a dedicated counter-terror unit (no those marine recon is not a counter terror unit), and how "cemerlang" they are in dealing them bus-hijacker incidents couple of years ago, i'd wager they'd ask for "foreign consultancy" first