even our sukhoi shoot down f-35 recently. tu la bodoh sangat.

even our sukhoi shoot down f-35 recently. tu la bodoh sangat.

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.

this picture is fact very recent, the Raptor arrived about noon today

patut la bising betul hari ni dengan bunyi jet.. dah la rumah dekat betul dengan Subang TUDM 

even our sukhoi shoot down f-35 recently. tu la bodoh sangat.

huh?
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Pindad ready to produce Leopard 2A4 tank ammunition

Friday, June 6th, 2014 19:28 pm | 3,799 Views
Announcers: Sharif Abdullah

Bandung (ANTARA News) - The leap made Pindad, after President Director of PT Pindad, Sudirman Said, stated that the company's ability to create and build the Leopard 2A4 main tank ammunition.

"From the Joint military exercises in 2014, much to our responsibilities, one of which complement the latest ammunition for some perenjataan military, including a 120mm smoothbore cannon fodder for the Leopard tanks," said Said, in London on Friday. 

According to him, a 120mm smoothbore cannon fodder for Leopard, targeted its development can be done from late 2015. "So that we can meet the needs of the tank weaponry," he said.Leopard uses two variants of the main gun, the Rheinmetall 120 mm L44 or L55 smoothbore or without threaded along 5.28 meters and weighs 3.37 tons.

Non-threaded barrel of the cannon is "the answer" in the decade of the '70s over the T-72/80 tank series triumph of the Soviet Union that could be easily slaughtered Western tanks.

Non-threaded barrel of the cannon also has a kinetic energy larger than the threaded so elevating effects posed lethal ammunition.

In addition to conventional ammunition, cannon can accept various types of ammunition, Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot chant DM23, or Armour Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot with M829 containing uranium explosive head.

Still no ammo Projectile Multi Purpose Anti-Tank based High Explosive Anti-Tank technology, made in Germany, berdesignasi NATO as DM12.

South Korea to give 'Pohang' class corvette to PHL –DND spokesperson

June 6, 2014 6:51 am

MANILA, June 5 — The South Korean government will be donating a corvette to the Philippines before the end of 2014, Department of National Defense spokesperson Dr. Peter Paul Galvez said on Thursday.

He added that the corvette will be one of South Korea's "Pohang" class and there is a big possibility that the ship will be handed to the Philippine Navy with all its weapons and sensor system intact.

The "Pohang" class corvette is a general purpose vessel operated by the Republic of Korean Navy.

They have served in a coastal defense role during the late Cold War and post Cold War period.

A total of 24 "Pohang" class vessels were built, all constructed in South Korea. Twenty-one vessels remain in service.

A "Pohang" class corvette weighs around 1,200 long tons and has a length of 289 feet and 8 inches.

It has a beam of 32 feet and 10 inches and a draft of nine feet and six inches.

The ship is powered by CODOG (combined diesel and gas propulsion system). "Pohang" corvettes have a maximum speed of 32 knots and a cruising speed of 15 knots.

It has a range of 4,000 nautical miles and a crew of 95 officers and enlisted personnel.

Sensors and processing systems include one AN/SQS-58 hull-mounted sonar.

The ships are armed with Harpoon and Exocet anti-ship missiles, a 76mm Oto Melara automatic cannon, a Breda 40mm twin cannons and two Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (with 6 Mark 46 torpedoes) and 12 Mark 9 depth charges.

Announcement that South Korea will be giving a "Pohang" class corvette to the Philippines came in the wake of reports that the former will be also donating an LCU (landing craft utility) to the Navy. (PNA)

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IOMAX offers Archangel light attack turboprop to the Philippines

Gareth Jennings, Mooresville, North Carolina - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
04 June 2014

   
Artist's concept of the IOMAX Archangel ISR and light strike aircraft modified with a bubble canopy, ejection seats, and speed fairings. The aircraft is currently being offered to the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates (pictured). Source: IOMAX

IOMAX has offered its Archangel Block 3 Border Patrol Aircraft (BPA) to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) as a replacement for its ageing Rockwell OV-10 Bronco counterinsurgency fleet, IHS Jane's was told on 2 June.

The US defence company has submitted a bid to the Philippine government, in which it is pitching the Archangel as a replacement for the PAF's nine remaining OV-10s, which were acquired second-hand in the 1990s, IOMAX CEO Ron Howard disclosed during a visit to the company's North Carolina headquarters.

"IOMAX has previously done signals intelligence in Southeast Asia, and so we know the region. The Philippine mission is very well suited to the Archangel," he said.

The Philippine requirement was formally launched in mid-May, when the Department of National Defense (DND) issued tender documents to acquire six close air support aircraft and an accompanying logistics support package for PHP4.968 billion (USD114 million).

In its documents, the DND noted that the selected bidder must have had prior experience of such programmes over the previous decade, and that the selected platform should already be in service with the armed forces of the country of origin or by the military of at least two other countries.

Although the Archangel BPA is regarded by some (the US Department of Defense included) as being an essentially new platform, it is in fact the third iteration (hence the Block 3 designation) of the Block 1 and Block 2 AT-802 that IOMAX developed and supplied to the United Arab Emirates (and which it still supports). Also, with the Block 1 also now in service with Jordan, the Archangel does fit the criteria for selection as laid down by the DND.

While the DND did not publically disclose aircraft specifications, IHS Jane's understands that they have been written up with the Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano in mind, with requirements that it be equipped with retractable undercarriage and ejector seats, among other things.

The Archangel currently features neither of these, but Howard told IHS Jane's that IOMAX has done studies with Martin-Baker on the feasibility of replacing the current crash-resistant seating and roll-cage with twin ejection-seats and bubble canopy, and that this is perfectly doable (the United Arab Emirates is also said to be interested in the canopy for a potential follow-on order of aircraft, but not the ejection-seats). As for retractable undercarriage, Howard said the mission did not require it, and the weight penalties and rough field limitations would outweigh any benefits over the current fixed undercarriage, and so this would not be offered.

As retractable undercarriage is not being offered as an option, Howard said the company's designers were looking at a number of aerodynamic improvements to the Archangel that would help it close the speed gap from its current 180 kt cruise speed to bring it closer to the 220 kt of platforms such as the Super Tucano.

From spinner to tail, these enhancements include the option of an enhanced propeller with a scimitar-style composite blade; a sleeker nose profile; angling the exhaust rearwards to provide about 200 lb of additional thrust; speed fairings on the main undercarriage and wheel struts; remodelled wing roots and tips; blending the rear of the cockpit to the tail section to reduce buffeting and drag; remodelled tail and stabiliser roots and tips; and a more generally cleaned-up fuselage, with as few protruding parts as possible. According to IOMAX's chief scientist, Ray Nielson, who is leading this improvement effort, these modifications should increase the aircraft's cruise speed to about 210 kt.

Even so, Howard was keen to note that speed is not everything, and that rival platforms had sacrificed much in terms of payload and range/endurance in order to go faster. With a typical mission profile of 175 kt outbound to a range of 1,350 n miles, six hours on station, and 175 kt inbound to base, and all with a maximum gross take-off weight of 6,715 kg, the Archangel can cover more of the Philippine's area of operations with a greater weapon load than any of its competitors. At just USD8 million per aircraft (without options), the Archangel is also cheaper than many of its rivals ( IHS Jane's All the World's Aircraft gives the Super Tucano a unit price of USD12-13 million).

With the DND's tender documents now released, all bids must be submitted by 11 June, with the selected platform expected to be with the PAF 18 months after contract signature. Besides the Archangel and Super Tucano, other platforms expected to compete include the Beechcraft AT-6 Texan II, and perhaps even the Pilatus PC-21.

atreyuangel aku dapat rasa perisikan USA sudah dapat hidu sesuatu dari krisis di Thailand.. aku ingatkan kawan aku main-main je bila dia cakap lepas raja thailand sekarang meninggal dunia, negara thailand mungkin akan berpecah kepada 3 bahagian sebab ada masalah amat besar akan pewaris tahta.. dikatakan pewaris tahta sah raja thailand sekarang, yang institusi diraja thailand sembunyikan semua data peribadi dia kepada orang ramai, dia dikatakan hendak minta taraf warganegara Malaysia dan hanya mahu jadi orang kebanyakan, mahu jadi orang biasa, tak mahu pegang tahta kerajaan thailand sebab fahaman agama dan kepercayaan yang amat berbeza.. pewaris sah tahta kerajaan thailand sekarang dikatakan sedang berada di antara selatan thailand dan utara semenanjung malaysia, tiada siapa tahu identiti sebenar dia.

aku cadangkan Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) kukuhkan sempadan Malaysia-Thailand macam-macam boleh jadi lepas amerika pergi post berita camni, kawan aku dah cakap benda ni berbulan-bulan sebelum washingtonpost benda ni.. camne macam lebih kurang la pula 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/behind...76ed_story.html

So, there's a possibility Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani would secede to Malaysia if disintegration occurs?

ESSCOM update

- 4 sea-base rig confirmed for sabah
- 3 Remote Sensor Site (RSS) to be built

sea-base rig ada heliborne rapid strike units ke?

We dun have that many helis to begin with..