Kenapa China tak ikut doctrine Russia, strategi Attack on US carrier battle groups guna Anti-Ship missile,rather than trying ship-to-ship battle?


Tu-22M with 2 underwing KH-22 (AS-4 "Kitchen") Anti-ship Missiles.


From the movie "The Sum of All Fears". Yes, ada banyak inaccuracies berkenaan US fleet defence systems & CAP fighters,tapi the main idea is that attacking US carrier groups using anti-ship missiles as an alternative to ship-to-ship combat. Lagipun best jugak tengok US carrier kena blast ni hehehe 

Mane ni?? Basic PASKAL ke?

Gunship only useful for coin mission, which our BAE hawks ady fulfil that role

Though we do need asset for CAS (Close air support) after lahad datu, which is attack chopper

The Gulf state had been in talks with the company and the UK government to buy 60 Typhoon jets.

The union convenor at the firm's Warton factory in Lancashire said it was "very disappointing news to get before Christmas".

But a government spokesman said it was a "commercial decision" and that it was "always going to be a difficult deal".

"As BAE have said, it was an exciting prospect but not part of their business plan," they added.'Game changer'
In a statement BAE Systems said: "The UAE have advised that they have elected not to proceed with these proposals at this time."

A spokesman added that the collapse of the deal would not have an impact on jobs at the firm's Warton factory.

Phil Entwhistle, from the factory's Unite union branch, said the deal would have been a "game changer" in terms of recruitment and the long term future of the factory.
"Having said that, there's no threat to jobs in the short or medium term," he added.

"This deal wasn't yet part of the company's business plan so we won't be seeing people losing their jobs, certainly for the next three years or so."
Last year, BAE systems lost out on a deal to supply 126 Typhoon jets to India.

That is not a Viper (AH-1Z) but instead a Super Cobra (AH-1W). The Viper has 4 rotor blades.

Bandar's Threat Comes True

August 2013: Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria

As-Safir said Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord. “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he allegedly said.


December 2013: Second Blast Hits Russia, Raising Olympic Fears

A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism just six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
President Vladimir V. Putin’s government has worked to protect the Olympics with some of the most extensive security measures ever imposed for the Games. But the bombings, in Volgograd, underscored the threat the country faces from a radical Islamic insurgency in the North Caucasus that has periodically spilled into the Russian heartland, with deadly results, including several recent attacks.

One doesn't attack Stalingrad without receiving a blowback. The Russian security forces will have an immediate harsh response on the local level. There will be pressure on Putin to also directly respond towards Saudi Arabia. Russia will feel the need to set a precedence. The response will therefore likely come, though probably delayed, in a rather spectacular form.

mana bole..aku rafalenista...rafale all the way     

MALAYSIA

Malaysia is a country of about 24 million people whose ethnic mix of Malays, Chinese, and Indians has been at the center of national politics.  The Malaysian government’s affirmative-action policies, which favored ethnic Malays, the bumiputera, have long fanned tensions among the ethnic groups.  Ethnicity even played a role in the course of the only large-scale conflict in Malaysia’s modern history, a long counterinsurgency against mainly ethnic Chinese communist guerrillas.[8] With so much political energy focused on internal issues, the public has been generally indifferent to matters related to external defense and foreign affairs.  That has had implications for the country’s military procurement.

Given the lack of public attention, much of Malaysia’s military policies rest in the hands of a small political elite that operates with relatively little transparency.  Decisions about military procurement often fall to either those within the elite or those that support them.  That creates the potential for priorities other than those dealing with the military to come to control the military procurement process.  Hence, some have characterized Malaysia’s military procurement as “rationalized decision rather than rational decision-making.”[9]

Even under Malaysia’s standard military procurement process, an organization other than its Ministry of Defence can wield decisive influence over military acquisitions.  When capital expenditures are expected to be high, the Ministry of Finance can actually issue the military procurement tender. 

While the Ministry of Defence may contribute its technical requirements, it is the Ministry of Finance that ultimately decides on the acquisition, which is often the one with the lowest cost.  As a result, the military sometimes receives equipment that does not meet its requirements.

Indeed, there are a few instances when Ministry of Finance tenders are awarded without even informing the Ministry of Defence.  One case occurred in 1996 when Malaysia awarded a contract for corvettes to a German shipbuilding consortium; the Ministry of Defence learned of the award from the consortium, rather than its own government.[10]

Another example where military requirements were subordinated to other priorities was the Malaysian government’s decision to purchase 18 MiG-29N fighters from Russia. At about the same time, Malaysia ordered eight F/A-18D multirole fighters from the United States.  While the decision to purchase the MiG-29Ns may have been designed to demonstrate Malaysia’s continued geopolitical non-alignment or simply to economize over the more-expensive F/A-18Ds, it did overlook many of the MiG-29N’s operational shortcomings.  In later years, Malaysia’s MiG-29N fleet was reported to have suffered from low operational readiness and higher-than-anticipated maintenance costs.  Moreover, the Malaysia’s air force was forced to maintain separate supply chains for its two sets of aircraft, reducing their flexibility to operate between airbases.  Such examples do little to help engender trust between those responsible for procuring military capabilities and the military organizations that must use them.

sos mana?