I Just waiting Sykorsky official offer for their Blackhawk

I Just waiting Sykorsky official offer for their Blackhawk

Ukrainian rebels, they are no your average part timer fighter like in Syrian and Iraq. They drill and march and coordinated each other like a professional army

those Saxon look like WW II relics, wonder why today Rosbiff can't into a much nicer and capable design of armored vehicle. And in contrast, the French, Jerries and Turks know their jobs and had a sound designs for their armored vehicles.

tak lah, Soekarno only know buy-buy-buy, regardless of our economic conditions at the time.

unlike SBY, he is thinking thoroughly and preparing our defense industry wholeheartedly. And under SBY administration, Indonesian defense industries can found their way and much improved than before. And i think trying to balancing between economic and military spending is much more important than to have a lot bling-bling stuff.

that's FAST helmet, your very own Paskal had them too

T-72 and T-64 is abundant in market with cheap prices too (Ethiopia bought T-64 very cheap around 200.000 per pieces from Ukraine), and i thing is not a very nice idea trying to license them

China has sell a lot of their type 59 MBT to many African countries, Bangladesh, Vietnam (during the Vietnam war), Pakistan, and Iraq-Iran.

Their F-7 type aircraft is a hit too with many air forces like Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Myanmar and so on.






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"So the requirement is 3 men crew, autoloader, 50 tonnes class (maybe max 55)
Is there a non-russian tanks that fill all this?"

there is many to fit your criteria

Pok Pong Ho, Al Khalid, Chon Ma Ho, M84, M-95 Degman, Type59G, Type 96G, Type 90 Kyu Maru

In the past Pinoy have a ridiculously strong Naval and Air force, not to mention they have hundreds of light and Medium tanks too like Sherman, Chaffee, Walker Bulldog, Scorpion and hundreds APC/IFV like Cage Cadillac Commando and M113 since 67-77 era

just how low they have fallen today

This post has been edited by madoka: Feb 15 2015, 11:22 PM

Indonesian military to increase number of personnel guarding borderlines

Minggu, 15 Februari 2015 10:47 WIB | 328 Views

Nunukan, N Kalimantan (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) will increase the number of its personnel to guard Indonesia-Malasyia borderlines, a military commander has said.

"We are planning to increase the number of soldiers who will be assigned to guard and maintain security along the border areas," Brig Gen Teguh Arief Indratmo, the chief of 091/ASN Military Resort of VI Mulawarman Regional Military Command, said here over the weekend.

He said that now there were 33 security guard posts along the border areas. The number will be increased to 50. The new posts will be built in strategic coordinate points.

The security posts will be built in border areas which are very difficult to be reached by soldiers now. "Of course this plan needs strategic considerations, assessment and surveys," he added.

Indratmoko said his side was still considering the number of soldiers to man the new 17 posts.

"The number of personnel for each of the post will differ from one to another, depending on the conditions in the area," he said.(*)

Antara News?

This post has been edited by madoka: Feb 15 2015, 11:30 PM

you must considering the back blast too

no lah, it is a modified purchasing order. The order is along with UAE, Sokor and US order. We only getting around 32 to 40 helmet (included with spares).

Credit to Pussenarmed (Army Artillery Corps) TNI AD and original uploader

Indonesian Army Artillery Corps Power Projection Programme



Legend,

MEN is for Regimental Level Artillery Units under auspices of Kostrad, MEN 1 is for Kostrad 1, MEN 2 is For Kostrad 2, they (each MEN) comprises of around 3 Artillery Battalion. One towed, one Self Propelled and one rocket artillery

- ROKET, is for a battalion Rocket Artillery (MLRS) under auspices of local Kodam unit (Division Level strength Command in Indonesian Army)
- 105, is for a composite towed Artillery battalion (one batterai of 155 mm towed howitzer and two batterai of 105 mm towed howitzer), under auspices of local Kodam unit (Division Level strength Command in Indonesian Army)
- GS, is for a Gerak Swa (Self Propelled Artillery) 155/105 self propelled howitzer battalion under auspices of local Kodam unit (Division Level strength Command in Indonesian Army)
- 76, is for a battalion strength of 76 mm towed Pack howitzer/mountain gun to supporting Air Cavalry/Ranger infantry units under auspices of local Kodam unit (Division Level strength Command in Indonesian Army)

This post has been edited by madoka: Feb 16 2015, 11:03 AM

transmigration, Java has a lot of people to be moved elsewhere across archipelago along with their skill in farming and fisheries industries and Chinese to start major trading companies. In 2010, North Kalimantan only had 500 k peoples, today they had more than 650 k people. 5 years later maybe has reach 1 million

ah sorry for the Out of topics

No news about LCS progress ?

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actually Oplot has been sell to Thailand, and i must concur some facts

1. Actually both sides using the same old equipment they had in inventory, and refrain from using their newest equipment. But lately, Russian steadily supplying the rebels with much advanced models of equipment. Ukraine do had newer model of ground combat equipment like Oplot tanks, BTR-3U, BTR 4, and so on.

2. The battles largely conducted by land forces, there is no need to involve a much larger Air Forces for now, as it will just invite a more reactionary repercussion from Russian and led them to supply more AA SAM batterai like BUK M, Pantsyr or OSA.

3. For the Navy and missile system, it just has the same effect for the Russian, as Ukraine military industries lies on their Missile regime tech and Naval industries in which has been existed since Soviet times. There is a report about Moskwa must halting their Kilo class production and starting to build a new class of SSK design in which has no parts from Ukraine defense products like propeller engine,sonar system and so on.

4. Ukraine can produce much of their needed equipment themselves, but what they lack is modern infantry gear. They are decades behind their western counterpart, and actually Poland has supply them to Ukraine but still they need times to learn how to use the tools properly. And in all, this battle against donbass Rebellion is the first major war military Ukraine must facing since their independence. Meanwhile their Russian counterparts with their rich experience since Chechen War till invasion of Georgia is able to teach and advise their partner in Donbass.

Chilean has the best armed forces among South American countries,

For Brazil they had a big Naval forces (their sub fleet is the largest) but their surface combatant is aging and need a lot of modernization,

Brazil Air Force is sucks, comprised only a handful modernized F-5 and a lot of Propeller driven combat aircraft like Tucanos can't be compared against modern Air Force like Chile or even Venezuela.

Their Army is so-so compared to Asian Standard.

In summary, South American region is quite weak militarily as they had no serious conflict among states and the region has fallen under US protection umbrella.

Contrary, Asian Pacific is the most fucked up region in the world, even the tiny Singapore has more Fire power compared to large NATO countries like Netherland or even Italy. Must be strong to survive in Asia or else must suffer

What made Asia Pacific region is more dangerous than Middle East is the facts about Asia Pacific countries is largely has been industrialized and almost all the big power in the region can sustain prolonged war with their machine industry and human power. Middle East nation can't sustain a long and tenuous war situations let alone their economics structure is depend on extractive industries such as oil and gas. India, China, Pakistan, South Korea, Japan all is self sufficient in regard their military industries. Indo Sing Malay Thai Viet and Myanmar is too have some capability to engaging in a prolonged war or battle but surely their capability is not as dangerous as the bigger power have in the region.

As an example, maybe Japan is not as heavily armed as their neighbor like South Korea or China when comparing about their defense spending per the respective countries GDP, but nobody will take on Japan for granted as they have the capability to made their own weapons and raising an offensive army backed with modern armament is just matter of time for Japan.

In paper, the military of middle eastern countries seem frightening and impressive but on other hand they are not. Without foreign assistance they can't wage their own war, can't sustain their large formation of ground forces without their foreign military adviser and even some countries heavily relying their military matter to Foreign mercenaries.

I think only the Turks who made the difference from the rest.

just looking at Assad and Iraq along with the Houthis and Sinai insurgence