This T90 has separate crew compartment and ammo storage like western tanks? If not, this upgraded T90 is not a good tank. T90 is just remake t72b with cramped interior and deadly autoloader known of ripping off tank crew's hand. No thanks.

Russia should come up with new mbt. T90 is no match against insurgents rpg29 and IED. M1a2sep, challenger2, leopard 2a6, leclerc would destroy t90 easily.

Ukrainian forces already lost their airspace to Russian troops wearing rebel badges. Any aircrafts they flew near rebel controlled territory will be shot down. Even rebels assault rifles are more advanced than ukrainian forces. Ukraine would need proper attack helicopters with complete training from US to defeat these pantsir SAMs together with F-16d block 52 carrying harm and hailstorm would be suitable for SEAD taking out medium range SAMs.

For ground forces, they'll need new IFVs and several small arms. Otherwise, would be hard to win. Bmp is too weak and fragile when rebel has rpg

well i'm ok with Chinese defense product ...
if can get some chinese product which value for money and save a lot cost
but few issue here...

some commend like
- seem got people mention our RMN (or mindef)  not confident with Chinese defense product.
- our Navy standard not some with chinese 
- our local shipyard no have ability integration Mix Western and chinese prodcut

than for people
- still a lot sentiment anti-chinese (country)
- still think possible war with chinese so can't get chinese product （Spratly Islands issue）
- still think chinese weapon product like toys, not reliable, easy spoiled and low tech.

Is China The World’s New Industrial Super-Power? Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” and the Military Encirclement of China

Obama’ recent visit to India netted a trove of economic, military, and nuclear power agreements with India. The visit – and the agreements -  underscored the attempt by the U.S. state to utilize its ‘pivot to Asia’ to create military and economic alliances with other Asian nations in order to encircle and isolate China. 

The military wing of the ‘Asian Pivot’ is called ‘Air-Sea Battle Plan’. It involves progressively moving up to 60% of  U.S. military forces into the Asian area, alongside the placement of new and advanced military equipment and new military bases and alliances with countries like the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan.

The economic wing of the pivot is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It’s a proposed regional regulatory and investment treaty which would exclude and which currently involves negotiations between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.

This military and economic encirclement strategy confronts, however, a very  large obstacle. The U.S. state may for now remain the worlds sole military super-power, based on its enormous expenditures for military, security, and online monitoring of the worlds’ people. But China has emerged in the past seven years as the worlds’ leading industrial super-power. In a shift – unprecedented historically for its speed – China has ,moved at warp speed in the past seven years to replace the U.S. as the world’s largest industrial producer.  As recently as 2007, China produced a mere 62% of U.S. industrial output.  But by 2011, China’s  output was 120% of U.S. output, and the gap continues to grow.  This displacement of the U.S. by China is the fastest shift in the balance of world industrial output in recorded economic history.

In the same period in which Chinas’ industrial production essentially doubled, US industrial output shrank by one percent,, EU industrial output  declined by nine percent  and Japans output shriveled by seventeen percent..

This historic shift of industrial power to China has immense consequences. To begin with, we need to recognize that real wealth is not money, stocks, bonds, or the  manipulation of exotic financial instruments such as derivatives as found on Wall Street.  Real wealth is the result of ability to produce goods and services which have value for human beings.

In China the hundreds of thousands of industrial workers churning out products in just one province – Guangdong – outnumber the entire industrial workforce of the U.S. An ever-increasing proportion of the worlds manufactured goods are produced:  each year in China: hundreds of millions of socks to cover the worlds feet; the majority of clothing worn in the U.S. while most-often bearing U.S. brands, is China-made; computers and mobile phones such as  the Apple products are primarily produced in China, as are the notebook computers sold worldwide by Chinese computer company Lenovo. The largest annual production of Chinese state-owned, joint state-private, and solely private  companies.  And the largest annual production of cars in any country  in the world now also takes place in China. And there are the high speed Chinese-made magnetic trains which increasingly crisis-cross the country, and which are being sold and erected in varoius other countries.

The notion that China’s rise can be ‘contained’ or encircled is dubious not only because of China’s industrial prowess, but also because of the international trade it engenders.

As the Economist magazine observed: “China’s international trade in goods did indeed lead the world in 2013. Its combined imports and exports amounted to almost $4.2 trillion, exceeding America’s for the first time.”  In fairness, it should be added that when international trade in services is added to trade in manufactured goods, the U.S. was still ahead.  U.S. industry also retains the lead in hi-tech production methods, though that lead is being narrowed.

China’s trade relationships with other Asian nations – nations the U.S. stare is attempting to woo – constitutes a particular barrier to isolating China. The China–ASEAN Free Trade Area is a free trade area among the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People’s Republic of China.  Implemented in 2010, the China-Asian free trade zone  reduced tarrifs or import duties on 90% of goods to zero.

Prospective participants in the U.S.-sponsored TPP are still engaged in complex negotiations. Even if successful TPP will be primarily a regulatory framework and not an actual free trade zone. By contrast, China-Asian is already the largest free trade area in terms of population, and third largest in nominal GDP, in the world. Besides China, it includes Vietnam, Thailand,, Laos, Cambodia Myanmar, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia.and Singapore.

Chinese trade with the other member nations is growing at a healthy 10% per year; and currently stands at about 500 billion (U.S.) per year. China is furthering economic integration with its neighbors by providing financial and technical support for construction of railways linking Chinese cities with key points in neighboring countries like Vietnam and Thailand.

As the worlds’ new industrial super-power, trying to encircle or catch China is at best an arduous task. “The train.” one might say, “has already left the station.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-china-the-...f-china/5432534

Military expert: Russian snap military drills could turn into assaults on Baltic capitals
The Baltic states are becoming increasingly unnerved by the growing number of Russian military drills close to their borders, Damien Sharkov of Newsweek reports,

Since the start of the Ukrainian crisis, Russia has been staging military drills close to the Baltic regions at an increasingly common pace.

Martin Hurt, the deputy director of Estonia’s International Centre for Defense and Security, believes that the increased frequency of the drills is meant to lull Europe into a false sense of security as the exercises become increasingly normal.

“My take would be that the Russian authorities want to raise the readiness of their forces and also make European nations more relaxed to a new norm where the Russian Air Force often conduct snap exercises,” Hurt told Newsweek.

“A realistic scenario against the Baltics would be a ‘normal’ Russian snap exercise that without notice turns into a quick assault on one or several of the Baltic states’ capitals,” Hurt continued. “Such an attack would have greater probability of success than the hybrid scenario we saw in Crimea.”

A Russian invasion of the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia would either lead to a continent wide war as NATO would be forced to respond to Russia’s attack, or, in the absence of a NATO response, a Russian invasion would shatter the defensive alliance.

The Telegraph reported on February 20 that General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, deputy commander of NATO forces in Europe and one of Britain’s most senior generals, warned that Russian snap exercises could lead to a possible invasion of NATO territory.

Bradshaw warned that the drills could be used “not only for intimidation and coercion but potentially to seize NATO territory, after which the threat of escalation might be used to prevent re-establishment of territorial integrity.”
nato v. russia
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The Baltics are not alone in fearing the potential of Russian aggression beyond Ukraine. Sweden and Finland, neither of which are members of NATO, are also planning on expanding their defense cooperation against the backdrop of Russian tensions, Reuters reports.

Aside from snap military drills, Russia has taken to provocative military demonstrations against NATO countries throughout Europe and North America. Most recently, Russian bombers flew close enough to British airspace to necessitate the scrambling of two British Typhoon fighters. 

Newsweek notes that “in the first ten months of 2014, 40 Russian military vessels had been spotted near Latvian waters, compared to only one in 2010.“

The provocations, according to Tom Nichols, a professor at the US Naval War College and a senior associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, are “not normal, it is not typical even of Soviet actions during the Cold War … [I]t clearly comes from the very top as an expression of Putin’s foreign policy.”

As a best case scenario, the continuation of Russian provocation and snap military exercises could prove to be nothing more than bluster to distract from Moscow’s activities in Ukraine. At its worst, the provocations and drills could be an ongoing strategy to inure the West to Russian militarism in order to cloak a future invasion of the Baltics.
Read more at http://www.businessinsider.my/military-exp...4vg3HI8cL60y.99

Indonesia to deploy SU-27 to escort transport plane carrying condemned Australians to death row island



Indonesia’s squadron of Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets has a strange new mission—riding shotgun beside a transport plane hauling two Australian prisoners to an island prison where they could face a firing squad for smuggling drugs.

“The Indonesian military commander has given the order to assist the relocation of the two death defendants,” Maj. Gen. Torry Djohar said on Feb. 22. “A squadron of Sukhoi jet fighters will be prepared to escort the Hercules aircraft that will be used to transport the defendants. We will also deploy ocean patrol and land forces.”

The Sukhois will accompany a C-130 carrying prisoners Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan from Bali—in the country’s south—to the remote Nusakambangan Island farther west as early as Feb. 27. Nusakambangan is a wildlife refuge that also the location of Indonesia’s most notorious prisons, housing some 2,000 inmates including terrorists and drug traffickers.

“Death row inmates are routinely whisked into the dense forest at midnight, blindfolded, asked to stand, sit or kneel and simultaneously fired at by 12 executioners aiming for their chests,” the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

“The firing squad is drawn from Indonesia’s paramilitary forces and if the prisoner is still breathing, the commander will shoot him or her point-blank in the head.”

Isnt the mokopa based off the ingwe we're gonna be using on our av8s?

F-35 helmet uses retinal projection to give pilots a “God’s eye view”

In less economically dominant nations than the United States, large purchases of military technology tend to get a lot more attention. In Australia, for instance, a $12 billion purchase of 72 super-advanced F-35 fighter jets has sparked a major political scandal. But an even smaller number has been turning heads recently: $55 million. That’s about how much Australia will have to spend to outfit each of its F-35’s with a helmet, which cost $770,000 each.

This helmet is necessary for the fighter to fly, and incorporates some of the most advanced sensing and display technology in the world. The F-35 helmet is truly a next-generation piece of headgear, offering, as Air Force Gen. Mike Hostage put it, “a God’s-eye-view” of the ground.

The helmet can do this because its function is integrated into the very design of the plane itself. Unlike pretty much every tactical fighter produced in recent memory, the F-35 does not feature a heads-up display (HUD) in the plane itself, but leaves that function entirely to the helmet.

This means that the plane is far more difficult to fly effectively (basically impossible) without the helmet, but it also means that the HUD is visible no matter where the pilot is looking. Twist your neck around to get a view of the jet back, up, and to the left, and you can still see the tactical information you need the most. Spy a target and the helmet can display all its vital statistics, from name to distance, and even suggest the best weapon to use at different distances and speeds.



However, pilots have long had HUDs in one form or another, and they’ve always been able to look up, at least a bit — it’s in looking down that the F-35’s helmet really breaks new ground. The new F-35’s are each fitted with six Distributed Aperture Systems (DAS), which collect information about the ground below and the air around the fighter plane. This data is then digitized both as video and data, with labels and flight paths layered over as necessary.

When a pilot looks down, the helmet mounted display (HMD) lets them see certain information about the ground below. From a target vehicle driving down a highway to a flight path toward a distant airstrip, pilots can now extend their situational awareness further than the physical window of the plane.

F35 2Of course, a visual apparatus this advanced can’t just be snapped on like a common Oculus Rift– each of the helmets has to be custom moulded to the particular pilot thanks to a detailed 3D head scan, and thus cannot be worn by anyone else. Engineers take very precise pupillary measurements so the helmet can be built to keep the display in view no matter how the pilot looks about.

This means that if a pilot retires, they can’t just pass their helmet on to the next recruit; Australians will be on the hook to pay for a replacement. If it were me, that’s where I would start arguing that I should be able to take the helmet home with me when I retire, but knowing the military they’d probably get all uptight about it.

The amount of internal communication in the plane is rather incredible. The helmet is doing dynamic head- and eye-tracking to figure out what it must display, then querying the external sensors on the particular information it needs to display, processing that information to add HUD elements like target indicators and friend-or-foe labels, and displaying that information in real time.

It does seem as though the modern F-35 pilot is gearing up to be something for a cyber-warrior, bridging the gap between the physical air force and the drone brigades. Once “real” pilots have gotten used to seeing most of the surrounding environment as green wire-frames anyway, well, might as well do it within a half-hour’s drive of home.

http://www.geek.com/chips/f-35-helmet-uses...e-view-1616488/

http://news.detik.com/read/2015/02/25/1545...i-brasil?992202

we had received one batterai of Astros and 8 Super tucano, it's quite bad but they do something unspeakable acts to our diplomats

Found this thread!!!  Yes...
Can someone tell me or explain to me why
A aircraft carrier is so superior?
Overrated?
It's so huge... Won't it be a easy target?

you should know "hundreds/thousands of armor" movement will raised the eyebrow from the first day

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. 

Some people you just can't reach, I guess. 

Hahaha perfectly shows where Malaysian people's priorities are. Braindead reality show vs matters of national defense and security. 

Anyway, any plans to uparmor the Adnan IFVs (or the other Malaysian armored vehicles for that matter)? Kinda strange seeing AFVs having no extra armor these days. Guess I'm indoctrinated on seeing AFVs stacked with slats, ERA and add-on ceramic armor sets. 

so big inside B737 MESA AWACS, got 10 terminal operator.



Saab Erieye on EMB-145 so cramped ...body also can't Standing. 


India CABS EMB-145， horizontal Terminal with 24 inch monitor， got 6 terminal

Paralysed woman flies F-35 fighter jet using only her mind
A quadriplegic woman has used brain implants to fly an F-35 fighter jet simulator using only her thoughts as part of a US government project.

Jan Scheuermann, 55, achieved the feat as part of an initiative by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that explores the intersection of biology and robotics.

"Instead of thinking about controlling a joystick, which is what our ace pilots do when they're driving this thing, Jan's thinking about controlling the airplane directly," said DARPA director Arati Prabhakar.

"For someone who's never flown - she's not a pilot in real life - she's flying that simulator directly from her neural signalling."

Scheuermann, who was left paralysed from the neck down following a rare genetic condition, first allowed surgeons to implant electrodes on her brain in 2012 in order to control a robotic hand.

The technology used to control the fighter jet uses the same array of microelectrodes to connect brain cells to electronic circuitry.

"This has been a fantastic, thrilling wild ride and I'm so glad I've done this," Scheureman said.

"This study has enriched my life, given me new friends and co-workers, helped me contribute to research and taken my breath away."

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the Pentagon's newest and most expensive fighter jet and it is hoped that the simulator testing could eventually pave the way for injured servicemen to use the technology, either within a military capacity or a domestic one through prosthetic limbs.

Prabhakar warns that there is still a long way to go before it moves beyond the simulator phase and acknowledges that moral and ethical questions will first need to be addressed.

"In doing this work, we've also opened this door," Prabhakar said. "We now see a future where we can free the brain from the limitations of the human body and I think we can all imagine amazing goof things and amazing potential bad things that are on the other side of that door."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paralysed-woman-f...er-mind-1490216