Haha all labels in Bahasa Indonesia la like that.

Seems like President Jokowi runs many new policies that have home nationalists jumping with joy, but can potentially hurt some foreign relations.

Pro-Russian separatists withdraw nearly 500 heavy artillery pieces as per agreed during Minsk peace talks, but Ukraine remains defiant to calls by OSCE to withdraw heavy guns



Pro-Russian separatists invite media representatives, including from western sources such as Reuters and CNN to cover its withdrawal of heavy artillery guns in accordance with the conditions of the recent Minsk II peace talks.

Reuters journalists in rebel-held territory watched 10 trucks carrying howitzers roll through Makiyvka, near rebel-held Donetsk. Rebels said the guns were on their way from Donetsk toward Amvrosiyvka, a town far from the front and close to the Russian frontier.

Near Amvrosiyvka, Reuters journalists saw a second convoy carrying 14 howitzers, also heading toward the Russian border.

Rebel commander Eduard Basurin said there were no plans for any further military advances. "That's it. We are going no further," he said.

He said the rebels still aimed to gain control of the entire territory of east Ukraine's two rebellious provinces, including the government-held port of Mariupol, but would seek this through "negotiations with the Ukrainian side".

Meanwhile, European security organization (OSCE) is concerned that Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass are not pulling out their heavy armaments,

Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE, Andrey Kelin, told Rossiya’24 news channel:

"Ukrainian military are keeping silent for the time being, they are not pulling heavy armaments out and are speaking of the need for a pause of some kind," he said.

"This really causes serious concern on the part of the OSCE, This pause can last indefinitely and the fact won’t help in terms of compliance with the first paragraph of the Minsk accords," he said.

Well, we had around 450 of them, so a lot of them to go around it seems. Longevity comes from being very easy to maintain & easy to get spare parts (RPz Condor uses civilian lorry engine and drive train), IMHO prolly the best military purchase Malaysian gov ever did.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Feb 26 2015, 09:15 AM

I'm not sure Pinoys are interested in COIN aircraft nowadays. They want/need jet fighters.

Russia, Cyprus ink deal to allow Russian Navy ships access to Cyprus ports



Cyprus has signed an agreement with Moscow to give Russian navy ships access to Cypriot ports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed the deal after talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades. The deal with Cyprus comes as tensions with the West over the Ukrainian conflict continue.

President Putin said that other countries should not be concerned and that the port's main use would be for counter terrorism and anti piracy. Tensions remain high between Russia and other European countries but the Russian leader was not concerned that the deal could be misconstrued.

"Our friendly ties aren't aimed against anyone," President Putin said. "I don't think it should cause worries anywhere."

Russia has heavily invested in Cyprus and this deal formalises previously ad hoc use of Cypriot ports.

President Anastasiades also revealed that the two countries were discussing the possibility of Russia using an air base on Cyprus for humanitarian relief missions.

Shoot at what? Separatist don't have air force.


This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Feb 26 2015, 12:49 PM

A bit OOT

So funny when people say the Russians flattened Grozny city during the Chechen wars, they probably still think Grozny today is still a pile of smoldering ruins and looks like this:




When actually it looks like this today:


Modern downtown Grozny, with the Ahmad Kadyrov mosque in its center

The problem is westerners are thinking along conventional and reasonable terms. Probably haven't learned the lesson that Russia is anything but conventional and reasonable.

Russia to showcase Udaloy-class DDG Admiral Panteleyev at LIMA 2015 exhibition

Udaloy-class more of a anti-Submarine destroyer. It is armed with the usual package of SAM, ASM, AShM & torpedo systems but for serious ASW work, it's armed with 5kt nuclear anti-submarine SS-N-15 rockets.



Crazy Russians,huh?

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 2 2015, 12:08 AM

Haha so basic a thing as M4 removable carry handle also donno exist can profess to be military 'expert' ka?

Probably bcoz mostly people are more familiar with M16 and its fixed carry handle.

P.S. bullshit to whoever put carry handle on M4, you cannot even carry it with the handle. The slot is so small, you can only fit fingers in there.

Well, they were designed in the 1970s, of course la cannot adapt to modern threats. Even western ships of the era, for example US Spruance-class destroyers and Perry-class frigates are no longer in operation.

Russia still uses these because they have not that much in replacements.

AFAIK all M4 carbines have detachable carry handles. You're probably referring to CAR-15 carbines, which are essentially shortened M-16s.

If it helps, Russia never intended for it's Navy to be an full blue-water one. Thats why the Soviets and now Russia have a ton of smaller Frigates and coastal patrol crafts rather than a few ocean-going ships.

If one sees a map of Russia, you can see it's very much a landlocked country. The only open ocean ports are surrounded by potentially hostile countries. Probably Soviet/Russian military planners realized a long time ago it's pretty useless to have a large conventional Navy if the enemy can potentially bottleneck you in harbor with not a lot of effort or strand you in open waters with no access to home ports. Hence the alternative focus of subsurface warfare, just like Germany in WW2.

CGI model of Kurganetz-25 tracked IFV



CGI model of Kurganetz-25 tracked IFV, designed to be the 'partner piece' to the new Russian Armata MBT. Besides being capable of carrying 8 infantrymen in addition to 3 crew members, it is planned to be armed with a 30mm autocannon , 7.62mm coaxial machinegun and 4 Kornet laser-guided ATGMs. It will also be installed with Drodz and Arena-E defensive systems.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Mar 2 2015, 02:49 PM

Well, it's not a rocket launcher per se. The Carl Gustav M3 is a recoilless rifle, it uses 84mm medium-caliber special artillery shells, not rockets. And we've used them since the 1980s.


SAAB Carl Gustav M3 RCL rifle, with assorted shells.

Wiki: SAAB Carl Gustav Recoilless rifle