Singapore Wants To Upgrade 60 F-16s

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress January 13 of a possible foreign military sale to Singapore for an upgrade of F-16 aircraft. The estimated cost is $2.43 billion U.S.
More from the agency’s news release:

The Government of Singapore has requested an upgrade of 60 F-16C/D/D+ aircraft. The upgrades will address reliability, supportability, and combat effectiveness concerns associated with its aging F-16 fleet. The items being procured in this proposed sale include:

• 70 Active Electronically Scanned Array Radars (AESA)
• 70 LN-260 Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation Systems (GPS/INS)
• 70 Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS)
• 70 APX-125 Advanced Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Combined Interrogator Transponders
• 3 AIM-9X Block II Captive Air Training Missiles
• 3 TGM-65G Maverick Missiles for testing and integration
• 4 GBU-50 Guided Bomb Units (GBU) for testing and integration
• 5 GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions for testing and integration
• 3 CBU-105 (D-4)/B Sensor Fused Weapons for testing and integration
• 1 AIS Interface Test Adapters for software updates
• 1 Classified Computer Program Identification Numbers (CPINs)
• 4 GBU-49 Enhanced Paveways for testing and integration
• 2 DSU-38 Laser Seekers for testing and integration
• 6 GBU-12 Paveway II, Guidance Control Units

Also included are Modular Mission Computers, a software maintenance facility, cockpit multifunction displays, radios, secure communications, video recorders; a Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS); maintenance, repair and return, aircraft and ground support equipment, spare and repair parts, tool and test equipment; engine support equipment, publications and technical documentation; aerial refueling support, aircraft ferry services, flight test; personnel training and training equipment, site surveys, construction, U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated cost is $2.43 billion.

we did? 
sos plz~

Mmg PLAN buat latihan besar-besaran nih
http://rentaka.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/n...ea-islands.html
marine force deme pun ikut sama
joint ex ada laa, mana ada bagi base 
kalo itu offer aku mau itu Daring class

hmm..let see..

they were never there when we in deep shit back in communist era..they never help us..even some of them scream ganyang back in those days..someone wanna seek possibility to steal sabah from us using 'diplomatic' way..& there's this very 'neutral' fella who didnt care what happen to ASEAN & will just kow-tow to any big-player as long as the big player promise not to disturb their rice bowl..mao pakai wa mia jalan pun takpa, mao bikin itu death rail track pun takpa, janji jgn kacau wa mia nasi

i think this is why we stand on our own way during this critical time...

Flightglobal’s operations and safety expert, David Learmount, says Malaysia’s military failed in their duty to identify a mystery aircraft that may have been missing Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370.

His interview on ABC News 24, will be repeated during today and appear on the program’s website in due course.

However the main points Learmount made was that Malaysia’s military must have been half asleep when an unidentified object was seen on its primary radar tracking west across the Malaysia peninsula near the border with Thailand early last Saturday morning immediately after the lost Boeing 777-200 with 239 people on board disappeared off the secondary radar screens of the its air traffic control system.

MH370 had been headed to Beijing and this is the start of the sixth day of its disappearance.

“The thing that worries me the most is that … the Malaysia military was not up to scratch”, “Learmount told the ABC.

“They should have identified the target…they should have checked it out, they didn’t and that why I think they were half asleep.”

Learmount criticised the time taken to bring the Malaysia military into the picture. He suggested the reason the Royal Malaysia Air Force was reluctant to talk about what it saw last Saturday morning was that it didn’t want to reveal how bad, or how good, its radar system is to a potential foe.

He said the disappearance of MH370 at the moment it was leaving Malaysia controlled air space over the Gulf of Thailand headed toward Vietnam was a complete surprise because until then it had been a normal, perfectly functioning flight. Then the transponder, which identifies airliners and their actual and intended flight paths to air traffic controllers, went off air, for reasons not established.

The failure of the military to pick up on the trace on their screens, which showed what is assumed to have been MH370 changing course and flying west across the peninsula, was a critical missed opportunity.

Learmount also repeated criticisms he has recently published on the Flightglobal site of the chaotic and incompetent search effort being mismanaged by Malaysia

Rather than buthurt on the article itself.
we should focus on the lesson learn.
The biggest flaw occur in how fast the dca sop alert the military.
another question arise would be how much we are able to control our airspace in grey areas like between border.
it show how disconnect of SEA aviation security and trafiic control.
of course it also show that how little money we invested in aviation airspace security despite 9/11 show how devastating a terrorist attack can be.
Are our military have access to the dca and atc data.
can our military takeover the dca atc role in an event of terrorist attack.
also do our immigration have access to interpol passport database in the immigration check point on all malaysia check entery point.

MALAYSIA Airlines MH370 flew over or near at least three military radar stations in northern Peninsular Malaysia, yet the four-man crew that operated each station somehow mysteriously missed the radar blips on their screens.

But this is hardly surprising since the Defence Ministry admitted that between 2008 and mid-2011, there were a total of 2,508 Malaysian airspace intrusions by the Singaporean air force.

The Singaporean intrusions are more easily detectable due to its location and predicable flight paths but what about other parts of the country?

Perhaps the air force realises this and has since equipped itself with advanced radar systems through the Malaysian Air Defense Ground Environment Sector Operations Center III (MADGE) Programme.

But then the air force failed in doing the very thing they were trained to do – detecting an unidentified plane flying in an erratic manner in our airspace.

In fact, the plane flew over Penang and one can only imagine what would have happened if the perpetrators decided to bring it down there.

The Malaysia military took full delivery of one of the advanced Thales Raytheon Systems early last year with an integrated Sentry command and control system and the Ground Master 400 3D radar.

According to Thales, the MADGE system operates in real-time and features multi-radar tracking and a flexible human-machine interface.

The GM 400 radar also provides long-range surveillance capabilities for the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

Its reach is up to 400 km and it is more than sufficient to detect the MH370.

It is now clear that the four-man crew in the three air defence stations, who were supposed to be watching the radar screens, either did not notice or failed to report to their superiors that an unidentified plane was flying across the country.

Had they done so, the air defence high command of the air force in Kuala Lumpur would presumably have scrambled fighter jets to identify the plane, make contact with it and finally guide it to a safe landing.

But then it was allowed to fly on and the rest is history. By the time the air force realised it, it was too late.

Military insiders say such incidents are supposed to be tracked real time and not based on recordings.

Hence the millions spent on the radar systems meant nothing to the nation. The Sukhois in Gong Kedak, Terengganu and the FA-18s in Butterworth, Penang were stationed there for years for exactly this type of situation.

We now wonder whether they will ever see any action. 

So were people sleeping on the job or was lackadaisicalness enveloping the air force? 

When Defense Minister Datuk Seri Hisammuddin Hussein was posed this question, all he had to say was that all standard operating procedures were followed and the priority was now to locate the missing plane.

Whether it is a flawed system or our men sleeping on the job, one thing for sure, this episode exposes Malaysia’s vulnerability.

There is few flaw in these article.
1. It did not specified sop between the dca and tudm.
2. We only have one set of the ground master would it capable of covering the entire airspace?
3. During the flight mh370 going toward 42000 altitude where ground master range is around 30200 altitude. Out of radar range.
4. Which radar last detect it? Ship or ground? Does it have madge soc intergrate?
5. Tudm sop on commercial aircraft radar signatures?

The article is just assuming tudm not doing jobs.
failed specified all the above conditions.