ASW capability without torpedo ... depends solely to torpedo launch from heli?

kan ada tanda *not confirm. MICA je yang confirm.

BESUT: Pelbagai peralatan dan bahan sejarah Tentera Udara Di Raja Malaysia (TUDM) kini dipamerkan
di Muzium Pangkalan Udara Gong Kedak (PUGK) di sini, yang dibuka mulai semalam.

Muzium itu, yang pembukaannya dirasmikan Panglima Tentera Udara, Tan Sri Datuk Seri Rodzali Daud,
diilhamkan bekas pengerusi muzium, Leftenan Kolonel Azhar Mohamad.
Kini, ia dinaungi bekas Komandan PUGK, Brigadier Jeneral Mohd Asghar Khan Goriman Khan.


Komandan PUGK, Kolonel Zahani Zainal Abidin hari ini berkata, muzium itu ditempatkan di bahagian teknikal
PUGK dengan bangunan asalnya ialah bekas mahkamah tentera.

“Muzium itu terbahagi kepada tiga galeri yang merangkumi bahan sejarah PUGK dan TUDM, auditorium dan
bahan pameran Aerospace Technology System Corporation (ATSC) dan Hitech Padu,” katanya kepada pemberita.

"Selain itu, muzium ini juga mempamerkan pesawat pemintas F-5E yang suatu ketika dulu pernah menjadi
kebanggaan negara dan juga jet pejuang yang terpenting dalam mempertahankan kedaulatan ruang angkasa.

"Pakaian tentera udara sejak Perang Dunia kedua, peralatan teknikal dan persenjataan pesawat tempur
pelbagai peranan Sukhoi SU-30MKM buatan Russia dan peralatan khusus skuadron di Pangkalan Udara juga dipamerkan," katanya.

Zahani berkata, buat permulaan, muzium itu dibuka kepada pelajar sekolah. - BERNAMA

I heard the big problem is we only can afford mica vl.
the ship have alocate additional space for future upgrade to add in more vls.
perhap in future we can go for type26 for aaw role
Anyway the only complain I have is it lack of superior ciws though 57mm gun and mica can fit for the role.
I hope we can get millennium ciws and searams.

The US has described new Chinese rules on fishing access to disputed areas of the
South China Sea as "provocative and potentially dangerous"

New fishing rules reflect a continued desire to affirm China’s maritime sovereignty in
a manner inconsistent with UNCLOS.

The Philippines and Vietnam have condemned China's new law that requires foreign fishermen
to seek Beijing's approval to operate in much of the South China Sea, where overlapping territorial claims
have increased tensions.

The fishing rules, approved by China's southern Hainan province, took effect on January 1
and require foreign fishing vessels to obtain approval to enter disputed waters in the South China Sea,
which the local government says are under its jurisdiction.

so comfirm TUDM angkat Super Horny?

does malaysia have something familar?

TOKYO : A Japanese Self-Defence Force ship and a leisure fishing boat collided off the coast of Hiroshima in western Japan,
leaving two of the fishing boat's crew in critical condition, the country's defence minister said on Wednesday.

The fishing boat, with four crew, capsized after the collision with the vessel "Osumi" at around 8 a.m. (2300 GMT).
The cause of the collision is still being investigated, the Japanese Coast Guard said.

"This accident is very regrettable," Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told an emergency news conference after the accident,
pledging full cooperation and help with the probe.

The accident comes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe boosts military spending to counter a more militarily assertive China,
with ships from the two countries shadowing each other around a group of East China Sea islets claimed by both.

Japan calls the islands the Senkaku and China calls them the Diaoyu.

The accident occurred in the Seto Inland Sea to the east of Atatajima, a small island off the coast of Hiroshima city,
the Coast Guard said, adding that the remaining two crew of the fishing boat were conscious and their lives were not in danger.

any picture for KD kasturi/lekir after SLEP programme?

Though long-touted as a “must have” for the future Army, the Ground Combat Vehicle is all but canceled.

The 2014 omnibus spending bill, passed by the House on Wednesday, provides what could be the final nail in the coffin.

The Army had requested $592 million for the program in fiscal 2014.
But lawmakers gave only $100 million - essentially enough to start closing shop.

Army Times reported in August that the program was facing a major delay or cancellation.

The Army, driven by the findings of its Unified Quest exercises in late 2013, said it plans to shrink squads and brigades.
The Army long argued for the GCV because it can carry an entire squad. The Bradley carries seven soldiers.
Nine soldiers comprise the current Army squad.

Squads aren’t the only things being cut. Funding also is taking a big hit, and the Army will spend more than 80 percent of its combat
vehicle modernization budget on GCV over the next five years. The program comes in at least $29 billion without overruns,
setbacks and other problems these programs tend to face. Some estimates place the cost as high as $34 billion.

An April 17 Congressional Research Service report raised significant questions about the cost and need for the next-generation
combat troop carrier. This comes on the heels of an April 2013 Congressional Budget Office analysis that recommended the Army
replace the $29 billion program with more Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles or foreign vehicles.

GCV’s size was a hot topic, as well. BAE Systems’ GCV tips the scales at a whopping 70 tons, for example. This matches the enhanced
M1A2 tank, making it the world’s heaviest infantry fighting vehicle. Much of its weight comes from multiple armor packages that rest
on a steel core hull to provide maximum protection. But Army leadership said in November it wants to use emerging (undeveloped)
technologies to ensure the heaviest vehicles come in at 30 tons. That is the optimal size for sustainment and operations in the heavily
urbanized environments that lay ahead, officials said.

Beijing (AFP) - China has started constructing the second of four planned
aircraft carriers, a top government official said according to media reports on Saturday.

The ship is under construction in the northeastern port of Dalian and will take
six years to build, the reports said quoting Wang Min, Communist Party chief
for Dalian's Liaoning province.

The country's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was completed in September 2012 in a symbolic milestone for the
country's increasingly muscular military.

Another two are in the pipeline, according to Wang, in a projection of power that could be seen as contradicting
Beijing's long-stated policy of arming itself strictly for self-defence.

When the Liaoning went into service, Beijing and Tokyo were locked in a territorial row over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku
Islands in the East China Sea which China also claims and calls the Diaoyus.

The row continues to simmer, along with other sovereignty disputes with the Philippines and Vietnam.

Early this month a Japanese newspaper said China was overhauling its military structure in order to strengthen its attack
capability and secure air and naval superiority in the South China and East China seas.

The Liaoning carrier conducted its maiden mission in the South China Sea in January.

It followed an incident in December in which a US warship was forced to avoid a collision with a Chinese naval vessel,
prompting Washington to accuse China of being the aggressor.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s military exercises and training with the United States will be strengthened in order
to bolster defence cooperation between the two countries.

Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said such two-way cooperation was important to build confidence
and to share new experiences and training techniques among military officers from both countries.

He said this during a meeting with US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, Washington yesterday.

Both leaders also discussed various international defence issues, including developments in Afghanistan and North Korea,
as well as Asean’s role in overcoming regional security challenges. 

During the meeting, Hagel praised Malaysia’s commitments in Southeast Asia and called on Asean member countries to
unite and cooperate with each other to ensure regional stability.

“Malaysia is an important US ally in Southeast Asia, which has contributed a lot to security and defence, whether on its
own or by working with other Asean nations,” he said.

The meeting with Hagel was held as part of Hishammuddin’s inaugural visit to the United States after taking over the
national defence portfolio.

The two are expected to meet again at the US-Asean informal meeting in Hawaii next April.

Looking through Soviet T-72 scope

I found other forum blame our ship no crew control and monitor the radar & Navigator at ship bridge ？any idea how our ship can't avoid it ?