KOTA KINABALU, (June 1) — Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) director-general Datuk Mohammad Mentek hoped construction of the Forward Operation Bases (FOB) in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZone) using abandoned Petronas oil rigs could be ready by year end.

He said construction of the FOB in waters off Semporna would take time as the oil rigs were huge and had to be brought from the peninsula to Sabah.

ESSCom, he said, had been requested to identify suitable and strategic sites to place the oil rigs for use as FOB.

Mohammad said he and other ESScom officers, as well as officers from Petronas, would visit the ESSZone waters, especially Semporna, next week to identify the site to place the oil rigs.

When completed, the FOB would not only be used by the security teams to berth their boats for refilling or to get their supplies, but also for helicopter landing, he added.

Erieye is always the most sensible....but it doesn't have full 360-scanning coverage. Too bad Russian doesn't have something similar to Hawkeye or Elta's rotodome radar. Would be nice if Russian's lightweight AEW platform can be datalinked with Flankers family.

You sure erieye dun have 360° scanning coverage?

IMPERIAL, Calif. (AP) — A Marine jet crashed into a residential area and destroyed two homes in a Southern California desert community Wednesday, but no one was injured, authorities said.

Despite the explosive crash on a street of tightly packed houses, 1st Lt. Jose Negrete (neh-GREH-tay) said no people on the ground were hurt. The pilot had ejected safely, was taken to a hospital for evaluation and released, officials said.

The Harrier AV-8B went down in a front yard at 4:20 p.m. PDT in Imperial, a city of about 15,000 near the U.S.-Mexico border about 90 miles east of San Diego.

Debris from the plane hit the roof of one of the houses, which was destroyed, Marine Lt Col John Ferguson said. The subsequent explosion and fire destroyed another house and badly damaged one more.

The house that suffered the brunt of the damage had a missing roof but still had walls and windows intact.

Christopher Garcia, 11, was watching television two blocks away with his father and brother when he heard an explosion that "felt like an earthquake." He hurried outside to see a pilot parachuting into a field about 200 yards from the crash.

"A mushroom cloud of black and red smoke" rose above the house with the collapsed roof, he said. The garage of the house next door was on fire.

He saw a woman crying outside saying, "That's my house!"

Adriana Ramos, 45, whose home is less than a block from the crash, said her "whole house moved."

"It felt like a bomb was thrown in the backyard," Ramos said.

Another witness, Jose Santos, was driving nearby and saw the plane flying "really low." Then "it just fell down," he said.

Santos sped toward the crash site. On the way, he saw the pilot on the ground.

"He didn't look like he was injured. He was rolling from side to side," and a police officer and others were helping him, Santos said.

At the crash site, there was chaos as people ran in every direction, he said. The two homes were on fire and it was unclear if anyone was inside.

The plane was from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona, said Cpl. Melissa Lee, a spokeswoman for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. She had no details about what might have caused the accident.

This was the second crash in a month of a Harrier jet from the Yuma air base.

On May 9, a pilot was able to eject safely before his jet crashed in a remote desert area near the Gila River Indian Community, south of Phoenix. No one was injured.

And in July, 2012 another AV-8B Harrier crashed in an unpopulated area 15 miles from the air base, which is among the busiest in the world for the Marine Corps, and is used it to train military aviators from around the nation.

They offered to us before. But dunno what will we take. I'm pretty sure we will take something.

Washington (AFP) - A US Navy jet crashed into the sea as it was making a late-night approach to land on an aircraft carrier
off the coast of southern California, officials said Thursday.

The pilot ejected from the F/A-18E Super Hornet before impact at about 10:00 pm Wednesday (0500 GMT Thursday)
and was in stable condition aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the Navy said in a statement.

The other aircraft operating at the time of the accident were diverted to the Coronado naval base in California,
where they landed without incident an hour after the crash, it said.

The F/A-18E Super Hornet was not recovered.

"All air operations have ceased aboard Carl Vinson until further notice," the Navy said, adding that an investigation
had been launched to determine the cause of the accident.

Another US military aircraft crashed Wednesday in California, local media reported. The pilot of the Marine Harrier jet
ejected for reasons that were not yet clear, and the aircraft crashed in a residential area. No one was hurt.

since they're bringing the Raptors..
can we test the Radar Vera Dalam Kari? (Vera-E to the slow minded)  

i believe they will use it
bila masa lagi kan nak test potential Vera-E 
when u say 'senyap2' mean USA can't detect whether Vera-E is switched on? 

since it can cover 450km , just detach it in any military camp.

Shanghai:  A Chinese navy plane crashed on a training mission over the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang,
the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, but did not say if there were casualties.

The military plane crashed late on Thursday night in a mountainous area near the city of Yiwu, it said.

Xinhua said the plane belonged to the navy's East China Sea fleet while the military news channel of the Sina website
quoted sources as saying the aircraft was a fighter-bomber JH-7 "Flying Leopard".

The fleet's area of responsibility includes disputed islands in the East China Sea, according to state media,
which Japan administers and calls the Senkaku islands but which China also claims and names the Diaoyu islands.

For more than a year since Tokyo nationalised some of the islands in September 2012, Chinese vessels and aircraft have
regularly approached them, playing cat and mouse with the Japanese coastguard.

Search and rescue teams were looking for the crew of the crashed plane, Xinhua reported,
but did not say how many people were on board. The JH-7 typically carries two.

sea-base rig ada heliborne rapid strike units ke?

should have at least 1-2 heli capable of carrying troops and a few with armaments mcm Little Bird..

Madrid (AFP) - A Eurofighter jet crashed on Monday while landing at the Moron air base in southwestern Spain near Seville,
a defence ministry spokeswoman said.

"A Eurofighter has crashed on landing on the runway of the Moron base," she told AFP.
She was not able to confirm media reports that the pilot had died in the crash.

The Moron air base is shared by Spain and the US Air Force, but only Spain operates the Eurofighter jet.

sipadan /ligitan is not like malaysia stole from indo. malaysia developed those islands and suddently indo claimed theirs. even ICJ accept it those island part of malaysia. we dont used any military action to get those island. it is your media and politician spin the story to make malaysia backstab the relationship. i hope we (malaysia-indonesia) can come out with something good so we can stop this nonsense. i really shocked when im trying google about f22 raptor in malaysia .. 1 the result came from kaskus(indo forum). i been lurking around in kaskus since then and found out that indo really hate malaysia. and the major reason indo hate malaysia is bcoz we have good relationship with british. apa ketahian ni?

With Sipadan and Ligitan, Indonesians reluctantly accepted it. There's no protest whatsoever. But the anger flared up with Ambalat and subsequent incidents. Indonesians think why didn't Malaysia do this during the New Order era.

TVRI often used the word "serumpun" in New Order era and Indonesians view on Malaysia was good. Now, that word is seen with cynicism by many Indonesians, as a word without meaning. Malaysia will try to provoke when Indonesia during its weakest times, a country with hidden ill intention towards Indonesia.

Relationship with British isn't really the reason. Indonesia has very close relationship with British too. Even SBY received knighthood, Order of Bath recently.

U.S. Marines + Malaysian Army Paratroopers + USS Ashland with U.S. Navy Sailors at sea + LCACs and AAVs bound for the beach = CARAT Malaysia Amphibious Exercise 2014

Sauce: https://www.facebook.com/Exercise.CARAT/pho...?type=1&theater