a documentary on the family history and development of SU-27 till PAK 50.

almost 50miniute long and don't have crazt fight scene or air combat,

but informative la.

BAE Systems showcases River-class OPV as an option for Malaysia's MMEA

Ridzwan Rahmat, Singapore and Dzirhan Mahadzir, Kuala Lumpur - IHS Jane's Navy International
07 April 2015


An artist's rendering of the UK Royal Navy's new River-class Batch 2 OPV design. BAE Systems is showcasing a similar platform to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA). Source: BAE Systems

Key Points

  - BAE Systems showcases the latest River-class design to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
  - The helicopter-capable platform would allow the service to operate rotary-wing UAVs

BAE Systems is showcasing the River-class Batch 2 offshore patrol vessel (OPV) design as a suitable option for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), the company told IHS Jane's at the recent LIMA 2015 exhibition in Langkawi.

The move comes as the agency is looking at the expansion of its fleet. The Malaysian government told IHS Jane's in late March that it plans to increase the number of MMEA assets available for sea and air operations.

The River-class Batch 2 is a 90 m OPV that is currently on order for the UK Royal Navy (RN). The RN is acquiring three ships to support a broad range of maritime security operations.

BAE Systems international business development executive Clive Marchant described the OPV as one designed for coast guard-type operations and based on a proven platform that is in use with the Brazilian and Royal Thai navies.

Marchant highlighted the ship built for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN), HTMS Krabi , as an example of the company successfully working with a Southeast Asian shipbuilder under a license-build arrangement. Krabi was built by Bangkok Dock under a technology-transfer agreement signed with BAE Systems in mid-2009. "We will be very happy for a Malaysian company to consider building it", said Marchant - although he did not go into specifics of how the company might collaborate with an indigenous Malaysian shipyard.

Krabi is fitted with an Oto Melara 76 mm gun, but Marchant contended that the MMEA would probably not require a platform that is as heavily armed. "Maybe just a 30 mm gun and a simple mission system [would be required]", he said. Marchant added that more important features for the MMEA would be the River-class design's endurance and space to accommodate additional equipment, thus improving capacity to cover Malaysia's vast exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

The OPV can embark sea boats and a helicopter which, said Marchant, would provide the MMEA with "a better all-round capability in surveillance and search-and-rescue operations". The River-class can take one medium-sized helicopter up to 12 tonnes; its flight deck can accommodate up to six 20 ft containers for mission system packages and equipment and supplies.

BAE Systems showcases River-class OPV as an option for Malaysia's MMEA

According to Iran’s semi-official FARS News Agency, Brig. Gen. Kioumars Heidari posed for a photograph, with a map of the Persian Gulf in the background, and said: “We tested three models of suicide unmanned aerial vehicles, which were a type of cruise missiles and have been fully manufactured by Iranian experts.”

More than 60 troops from the Australian army, navy, air force and Defence Sciene Technology Organisation will join the civil-humanitarian assistance operations on the islands of Palawan and Panay in the Philippines during the war games on April 20. The Philippines had denied that the exercises do not indicate a show of force against China. However, U.S. Secretary of Defence Ash Carter warned against militarising territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Cheyenne Mountain Complex being refurbished by Pengaton High tech communications being installed that are impervious to electromagnetic pulses The bunker is build under 2,000 feet of the Rocky Mountains and is able to withstand a hit by a 30 megaton nuclear blast Decommissioned 10-years ago because 'the Russians were no longer a threat'

wait malaysia getting rich after GST ... after 2-3 year than can get River-class for MMEA liao. 

So now NSM is confirm ...

surface to air missile 

So now NSM is confirm ...

surface to air missile 

Dhanush, a manoeuvring missile is a naval variant of Prithvi-II, and can carry a nuclear payload of 500 kg. It was successfully test-fired from a ship on Thursday.  India successfully test-fired nuclear weapons-capable Dhanush missile from a ship, off the Odisha coast on Thursday.

"We are building shelters, aids for navigations, search and rescue as well as marine meteorological forecasting services, fishery services and other administrative services so as to provide the necessary services to China, neighboring countries and individual vessels sailing the South China Sea," she said. 

The announcement came shortly after the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, released satellite images of China’s building efforts on the Mischief Reef of the Spratly archipelago. The images, which showed Chinese ships dredging sand onto the reef, fueled the criticism of already alarmed US officials and other claimants.

NSM is Surface to surface

Wonder if the new 6 biji from dsme will also use nsm

i mean sam still no LOA ... 

Wonder if the new 6 biji from dsme will also use nsm

mostly should be ...
NSM usd 21 million for equipment, module, integration sounds cheap for 6 unit. 

haha, so price AH-1Z with all in about usd 63 million each. seem not cheap at all. 
even cut 500 unit Hellfire, price still need 60 million. 
anyway just US approval price tag, pakistan not yet confirm to to buy.

We buy 6 unit this one can equal philippine navy oredi