Saudi ajak malaysia test bomb yemen. lel.

The thought of that makes me cringe

Eurofighter proposes final assembly line, CFT works in RI

Novan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta/Bandung | World | Fri, April 17 2015, 8:23 AM

The European consortium making the Typhoon heavy jet fighter proposed on Tuesday the possibility of moving a final assembly line from Spain to Indonesia, should Indonesia pick its jet fighter to modernize the Indonesian Air Force fleet.

“What we bring to Indonesia is not just reliable protection for the nation, but the opportunity to build and maintain a genuine indigenous capability on the back of a proven partnership and all that goes with it,” said Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH export director Joe Parker.

He also claimed that no other jet fighter could fly faster, higher and with more weapons when it came to protect Indonesia’s vast maritime territory and airspace.

Parker was speaking at a master class session on Tuesday for aviation and defense journalists and writers.

Other speakers were industrial partnership manager Martin Elbourne and capability promotion manager Paul Smith.

“Our final assembly line in Spain will soon complete its production run as the Spanish Air Force will receive all of its ordered Typhoons by late 2017 or early 2018,” Elbourne said on Tuesday.

“If Indonesia decided to pick the Typhoon, we can move the final assembly line from Getafe to Bandung.”

He suggested sending Indonesian engineers and technicians to Spain to work on Spain’s last units of the Typhoon being made there, as well as to help make the initial number of Indonesia’s own planes.

“After the Indonesians learn the way to assemble the Typhoon, we can relocate the final assembly line,” he said.

Currently there are four final assembly lines for the Typhoon. The three other locations are in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.

The Typhoon, a heavy, dual-engine jet fighter, is one of among several contenders to replace the ageing, American-made Northrop F-5 E/F Tiger II operated by the 14th Squadron, based at the Iswahjudi Air Force Base in Madiun, East Java.

Other contenders are the French-made Dassault Rafale and Russian-made Sukhoi Su-35; both are also heavy, dual-engine jet fighters. There are also light, single-engine jet fighters under consideration: the American-made Lockheed Martin F-16 and the Swedish-made Saab JAS39 Gripen.

Elbourne said Eurofighter proposed to have the final assembly line at the PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) facilities in Bandung because of the state-owned airframe manufacturer’s long relations with the then Construcciones Aeronauticas Societal Anonima (CASA), which is now part of Airbus Defense and Space in the Airbus Group.

“It is a natural progression for PT DI to move from making transport aircraft to fighter aircraft,” he said.

Other than moving the final assembly line to Bandung, Elbourne also said that PT DI could design, test and manufacture conformal fuel tanks (CFT) for the Typhoon, making Indonesia the only supplier of such enhancements for the jet fighter.

“Indonesia could be the first country to equip Typhoons with CFTs, providing an extra range to reach the country’s vast maritime territory and airspace,” he said.

“Other countries that also need the CFTs would have to buy them from Indonesia as the sole source.”

CFTs are additional fuel storage tanks that allow a jet fighter to fly farther and also to linger longer while carrying more weapons.

CFTs have several advantages, such as a smaller radar signature and drag penalties when compared to drop tanks and they allow more armaments to be placed on hard points under a jet fighter’s wings or belly.

Elbourne said that by making CFTs, “PT DI will get first-hand experience working on a jet fighter, thus increasing its current scope of capability.”

“Such increased capability could be used to leverage Indonesia’s participation in the IFX/KFX jet fighter program.”

The IFX/KFX is a joint development between Indonesia and South Korea in which Indonesia has a 20 percent stake.

Eurofighter is currently displaying a full-scale Typhoon exhibition demonstrator at one of PT DI’s hangars in Bandung.

Other than inviting journalists, Eurofighter also hosted officials from the Defense Industry Policy Committee (KKIP) who came on Wednesday, along with bloggers, university students and lecturers, to learn about the latest technology being implemented on the Typhoon.

Dont think that will hapen. We dont usually go bomb another coutry considering how limited our planes are

I believe there a procurment news soon. Most likely rmn or air force

Dont think that will hapen. We dont usually go bomb another coutry considering how limited our planes are

I believe there a procurment news soon. Most likely rmn or air force

rmn so far only DSME ship is litter big budget ....
Army so far Attack heli is big budget...
than MRCA project sure big budget and sure get hoo-haa on politic ...

Best to stay away from the middle east mess....

I place my best on dsme news or attack heli 

Mrca highly unlikely 
We don't want to get involved. No point is doing so unless like Pakistan army

Based on the latest post on MalaysianDefence, seem like something major is gonna happen. Any idea? 

MalaysianDefence

Marine Corp?

My bet goes to this
Looks like something with all the tri-service branch

SONMIAMI- A Pakistan Air Force Mirage aircraft today crashed in Balochistan during a routine training session.

According to our sources, the pilot ejected himself from the aircraft safely but the reason for the crash remains unknown. A board constituted by the Air Headquarters is investigating the possible cause of the crash. In 2014, three similar accidents were reported that involved Mirage jets.

http://nation.com.pk/national/16-Apr-2015/...-pilot-unharmed

DCNS starts the construction of the first GOWIND® 2500 corvette for the Egyptian Navy

04.16.2015

DCNS has today started cutting metal for the very first GOWIND® 2500 corvette under construction in Lorient, in the presence of high representatives of the Egyptian Navy. This vessel is the first of a series of four units that will be delivered to Egypt before 2019.



The cutting of the first metal sheets for the first GOWIND® 2500 corvette built in Lorient symbolises the launch of the ambitious industrial program conducted by DCNS for the Egyptian Navy. It includes the construction of four latest-generation corvettes, both in France and Egypt. The delivery of the first vessel is slated for 2017, i.e., less than four years after the signature of the contract last summer.

A new international success for DCNS

In the frame of an international call for tender, DCNS was able to offer the best product at the most attractive cost. The Group was able to comply with the very tight deadlines to adapt the product to the specific needs of this client for the construction of the vessels in France and in Egypt via technology transfer.

With this contract, DCNS has scored another success for the GOWIND® 2500. The Group had already won a first contract for the Royal Malaysian Navy, which covers the design and construction of six corvettes in Malaysia at the Boustead Naval Shipyard through technology transfer.

The first Egyptian GOWIND® 2500 corvette will be built on the DCNS site in Lorient, one of the most modern naval shipyards in Europe. The three following units will be built in Alexandria within the frame of a construction technology transfer agreement. “This industrial milestone is the concrete output of preliminary work to adapt the vessel to the specific needs of the Egyptian Navy, conducted over the last nine months by the DCNS teams. Today, we have started the construction of the very first GOWIND® 2500 corvette, the reference product on the corvette market. We are proud to produce this latest-generation vessel for the Egyptian Navy, declares Bruno Chapeland, director of the Egypt GOWIND® program at DCNS.

Read more: http://en.dcnsgroup.com/news/dcns-starts-t...-egyptian-navy/

later DCNS QC vs BNS QC on Gowind 

Tp artikel dia nampak lain skit. Ade persoalan, are we ready?? Hope we are...... tak nampak mcm procurement..... nampak mcm involvement in something

ke pasal warrior competition ke....

Marine Corp?

See siapa siap dulu

The Navy — unlike the Air Force — currently does not have armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made it clear that, despite having positive things to say about the F-35, the future is pilotless.

"Unmanned systems, particularly autonomous ones, have to be the new normal in ever-increasing areas," Mabus said at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space 2015 Exposition.

"For example, as good as it is, and as much as we need it and look forward to having it in the fleet for many years, the F-35 should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly."

All apologies to the Ice Men of the world, but even the best pilots are still a liability, and going unmanned removes that liability, as Mabus explained, inadvertently making a theme of Jerry Bruckheimer's planned Top Gun sequel eerily prescient.

"With unmanned technology, removing a human from the machine can open up room to experiment with more risk, improve systems faster and get them to the fleet quicker."

To that end, Mabus announced the creation of both a new deputy assistant secretary position and a Navy staff position — N-99 — analogous to the existing surface and air warfare directorates — "so that all aspects of unmanned – in all domains – over, on and under the sea and coming from the sea to operate on land – will be coordinated and championed."

See siapa siap dulu

Today, military sensors function a lot like cell phones with the GPS or Wi-Fi left on: they drain battery processing mostly useless data. But a new program from the Pentagon’s most creative minds wants to develop sensors that remain dormant, waking up only when something actually important happens.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is promoting the program presumably in an attempt to get industry engaged in time for them to submit concepts by an April 23 deadline. DARPA first released a solicitation in January for the Near Zero Power RF and Sensor Operations program — shortened to N-Zero. The goal, according to that solicitation, is to increase the lifetime of a sensor from months to years by eliminating or substantially reducing stand-by power consumed by sensors while they await a signature of interest.

“By cutting reliance on active power and enhancing battery life, N-Zero aims to enable wireless, ubiquitous sensing that is energy efficient and safer for the warfighter,” said Troy Olsson, DARPA program manager in an announcement about the program released this week. “Our goal is to use the right signal itself to wake up the sensor, which would improve sensors’ effectiveness and warfighters’ situational awareness by drastically reducing false alarms.”

our one gowind maybe can launch at 2018,
but complete commissioning maybe need wait until 2020.
remember news NSM only delivery Gowind NSM integration in 2020.